My dad was an ensign on the USS Phoenix sitting in Pearl Harbor. He said it took them 30 minutes to build up enough steam before they could get underway. They did not get hit. Dad said the Phoenix was the luckiest ship in the navy.
...until it ran up against the British Navy in the Falkland Islands.
Was your father around when the Phoenix met her doom? Torpedoed by a British submarine with the loss of hundreds of lives in icy waters. Brrrr!