when the list to starboard made it impossible to depress the guns sufficiently. Neches slowly settled forward and the list to starboard increased steadily. She sank at 04:37, with a loss of fifty-seven men, at , approximately west of Pearl Harbor. Three injured men were picked up by a seaplane after sunrise. A destroyer arrived by noon to pick up the rest of the men in the life boats. A total of 126 survivors were rescued, a few men were on a lifeboat for several days before rescue. including the captain in his pajamas. The commanding officer of the oiler, Commander William Bartlett Fletcher, Jr., was the son of Rear Admiral William Bartlett Fletcher, Sr. Fletcher, Junior would go on to make rear admiral after the sinking. References Kanawha-class fleet replenishment oilers Ships built in Boston 1920 ships World War II tankers of the United States Ships sunk by Japanese submarines World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean Maritime incidents in January 1942