U.S.S. Nevada
BB-36
1944
(Neptun 1307a)
- Class: Nevada - 2 battleships of 1911
- Displacement: 29,000 tons
- Dimensions: 575(wl) 583(oa) x 108 x 27.5 ft.
- Machinery: 2-shaft reciprocating, S.H.P. 26,500 = 20.5 knots
- Armor: belt 13.5 in., turrets 18 in.
- Armament: 10-14"/45 (2x3 & 2x2), 16-5"/38 (8x2), 32-40mm (8x4) A.A. guns;
3 aircraft
- Complement: 2,100
- Builder: Bethlehem-Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Keel Laid: 4 Nov 1912
- Launched: 11 Jul 1914
- Commissioned: 11 Mar 1916
- Decommissioned: 26 Aug 1946
- Service: Pearl Harbor (torpedoed and beached), Attu, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, Okinawa (hit by kamikaze, 26 Mar 1945). Target ship at Bikini, then gunnery and aircraft target. Sunk off Pearl Harbor 31 Jul 1948.
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