&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Uss_nevada.jpg) Nevada underway off the Atlantic coast of the United States on September 17, 1944
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Nevada |
| Namesake | Nevada[3] |
| Ordered | March 4, 1911[2] |
| Awarded | January 22, 1912[2] |
| Builder | Fore River Shipbuilding Company[2] |
| Laid down | November 4, 1912[3] |
| Launched | July 11, 1914[1] |
| Commissioned | March 11, 1916[3] |
| Decommissioned | August 29, 1946[3] |
| Stricken | August 12, 1948[4] |
| Nickname(s) | "The Cheer Up Ship" |
| Fate | Sunk as a target July 31, 1948[4] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Nevada-class battleship |
| Displacement | 27,500 t[5] |
| Length | 583 ft (178 m)[5] |
| Beam | 95 ft 3 in[5] (29 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 6 in[3][10] (8.7 m) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 20.5 kn (24 mph; 38 km/h)[5] |
| Endurance | 8,000 nmi (9,206 mi; 14,816 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)[8] |
| Complement | 864 officers and men[7] |
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| General characteristics 1942 configuration | |
| Displacement | 30,500 t[8] |
| Installed power | 6 Bureau Express oil-fired boilers |
| Complement | 2,220[6] |
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USS Nevada (BB-36), the third United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships. Launched in 1914, Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets,[c] oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range, and the "all or nothing" armor principle. These features made Nevada, alongside her sister ship Oklahoma, the first US Navy "standard-type" battleships.
Nevada served in both World Wars. During the last few months of World War I, Nevada was based in Bantry Bay, Ireland, to protect supply convoys that were sailing to and from Great Britain. In World War II, she was one of the battleships trapped when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Nevada was the only battleship to get underway during the attack, making the ship "the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal and depressing morning" for the United States.[11] Still, the ship was hit by one torpedo and at least six bombs while steaming away from Battleship Row, forcing the crew to beach the stricken ship on a coral ledge. The ship continued to flood and eventually slid off the ledge and sank to the harbor floor.[12] Nevada was subsequently salvaged and modernized at Puget Sound Navy Yard, allowing her to serve as a convoy escort in the Atlantic and as a fire-support ship in five amphibious assaults (the invasions of Attu, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa).
At the end of World War II, the Navy decided that, due to age, Nevada would not be retained as part of the active fleet and she was instead assigned as a target ship for the atomic experiments at Bikini Atoll in July 1946 (Operation Crossroads). The ship was hit by the blast from atomic bomb Able, and was left heavily damaged and radioactive. Unfit for further service, Nevada was decommissioned on August 29, 1946 and sunk for naval gunfire practice on July 31, 1948.
- ^ New York Times July 12, 1914.
- ^ a b c d Cox 1916.
- ^ a b c d e DANFS Nevada (BB-36).
- ^ a b NVR Nevada (BB 36).
- ^ a b c d Fitzsimons 1978, p. 1982.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Friedman 1985, p. 438.
- ^ Chisholm 1922, p. 436.
- ^ New York Times October 23, 1915.
- ^ Bonner 1996, p. 101.
- ^ Friedman, Norman (2016). US Battleships – An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 416. ISBN 978-1-59114-247-8.
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