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Type: Battleship |
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1916 - 1946 |
| Laid down: 4 November 1912 |
| Launched: 11 July 1914 |
| Commissioned: 11 March 1916 |
| Decommissioned: 29 August 1946 |
| Fate: Sunk 31 July 1948 |
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The two Nevada class battleships were the first United States Navy battleships equipped with triple gun turrets, as well as introducing the so-called all or nothing armor scheme, in which protection of vital areas was optimized against heavy caliber guns, leaving other parts of the ship essentially unprotected.
USS Nevada (BB-36), the second United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was a World War I-era battleship and the lead ship of her class. Laid down 4 November 1912 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, USS Nevada was launched 11 July 1914 and commissioned 11 March 1916. Active near the end of the First World War, Nevada served in both Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in the interwar period. On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Nevada was damaged and run aground. Repaired, USS Nevada served in the Atlantic and Pacific war. Postwar, Nevada was assigned as a target ship for the Bikini atomic experiments. The ship survived the testing and Nevada was returned to Pearl Harbor to be decommissioned on 29 August 1946. She was sunk by gunfire and aerial torpedoes off Hawaii 31 July 1948.
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