Battleships: Nevada Class

[Pelican]

Wreck of USS Nevada, the Ship Too Tough to Die, Found Off Oahu

The wreck of the USS Nevada, deliberately sunk by the US Navy in 1948, has been located in water nearly three miles deep, 65 nautical miles southwest of the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

The old battlewagon has been called the ship “too tough to die” following a career which began in 1914. The Nevada served in World War I and then was the only battleship to get underway during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Hit by one torpedo and at least six bombs during the attack, she was grounded by her crew, but refloated and rebuilt. Her guns supported five major amphibious landings at Attu, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

After World War II, USS Nevada was used as a target for the first nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, where it survived a 23-kiloton aerial detonation, as well as a second underwater detonation. Damaged and radioactive – but still afloat – the Navy formally decommissioned Nevada in August. Two years later, the Navy towed the Nevada out to sea near Hawaii for use as target practice. Five days of gunfire from other ships and bombing from planes was unsuccessful in sinking the tough, old ship, which was finally sent to the bottom by an aerial torpedo strike.

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[designeraccd]

Here is a nice pic of her....still afloat during WW 2!! DFO

[Pelican]

Some 'smoke stack' and a bit of a climb to put the 'funnel cover' on or don't they do that in the U.S.N.?

[designeraccd]

NEVADA thru the decades! First of the "all or nothing" type............... DFO

[Brian James]

Nevada Class Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured as she hoists a Sopwith aircraft onto her forward 14 inch turret platform, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1921.

[designeraccd]

A nice early view of NEVADA as built.......... This shot has the forward 5-14" DOMINATING. The first class of "all or nothing" armored battleships......DFO

[designeraccd]

OKLAHOMA when very new, possibly 1915.........DFO

[Brian James]

Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship USS Nevada pictured as she steams under the Golden Gate Bridge in 1938.

[Brian James]

Nevada Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured undergoing her modernisation refit at Philadelphia Navy Yard c1929.

[Brian James]

Nevada Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Oklahoma pictured at Puget Sound c 1936.