#USS NEVADA (BB-36)

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USS NEVADA (BB-36) during the commissioning ceremony while docked at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts.

"The Marine Detachment, (under the command of Capt. Charles H. Lyman, USMC) while at attention next to Number #3 & 4 turret (starboard side) as they prepare for captain's inspection by Capt. William S. Sims, USN, Commanding Officer, U.S.S. NEVADA."

Photographed on March 16, 1916.

Colorized by LJ Hayes: link

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USS Nevada (BB-36) overhead view off Brest, December 1918.

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The USS Arizona (BB-39), a Pennsylvania-class super dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, at sea with the USS Nevada (BB-36) and the Pacific Fleet circa 1939 somewhere in the Pacific off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States.

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USS Nevada (BB-36) in San Pedro Bay, Philippines, August 1945

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The Ship That Wouldn't Sink, USS Nevada (BB-36)

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December 7, 1941

The Empire of Japan attacked the United States Navy based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Sailors stand amid wrecked planes at the Ford Island seaplane base, watching as USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes in the center background, 7 December 1941. USS Nevada (BB-36) is also visible in the middle background, with her bow headed toward the left.

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Fleet battleships USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Nevada (BB-36), USS Maryland (BB-46), and the USS Texas depart San Francisco Bay, passing under the incomplete Golden Gate Bridge. The spans of the bridge will meet on November 18, 1936.

USS California enters San Francisco Bay on October 11, 1936.

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Events 7.11 (before 1920)

472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). 911 – Signing of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple and Rollo of Normandy. 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. 1302 – Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch): A coalition around the Flemish cities defeats the king of France's royal army. 1346 – Charles IV, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, is elected King of the Romans. 1405 – Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time. 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Ottoman capital, Edirne. 1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances. 1576 – While exploring the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, Martin Frobisher sights Greenland, mistaking it for the hypothesized (but non-existent) island of "Frisland". 1616 – Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec. 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979. 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille. 1796 – The United States takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty. 1798 – The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War. 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. 1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed. 1836 – The Fly-fisher's Entomology is published by Alfred Ronalds. The book transformed the sport and went to many editions. 1848 – Waterloo railway station in London opens. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C. 1882 – The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War. 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto. 1893 – A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua. 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. 1899 – Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy. 1906 – Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. 1914 – The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship. 1919 – The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.

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USS Nevada (BB-36): only Pearl Harbor Survivor that lived to fight at D-Day. 6 June 1944. (US Navy Photo)

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The USS Nevada (BB-36) was the lead ship of the Nevada-class of battleships built for the US Navy between 1912 and 1916. She was commissioned in March 1916 and operated in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean until mid-1918 when she went to the British Isles for World War I service. As the lead ship of her class, she boasted three turrets with three guns each, oil fuel instead of coal, and heavy armor plating to protect her vital machinery spaces. The Nevada fought on D-Day in 1944 off Normandy and fought again at the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific. After the war, it was painted orange and used as a test ship at the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb detonations in 1946. In 1948, the vessel, possibly still radioactive, was sunk by naval guns, explosives, and torpedoes 65 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor.

1944 USS Nevada - Don Greer

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May 9 1919 “U.S. Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., May 9, 1919. Dry Dock No. 3 (Nevada) and Dry Dock No. 4 (Wisconsin).”

ARC Identifier:52558687 Agency-Assigned Identifier:DD-SD-15-35928

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USS NEVADA (BB-36) under weigh.

Photographed in late 1945 or early 1946.

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USS Nevada (BB-36) June 1944

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USS Nevada BB-36 in Gaillard Cut Feb 15, 1923 Nara Image

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Smoke from USS Shaw (DD-373) and Battleship Row billows over USS Nevada (BB-36), December 7th, 1941.

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Damaged OS2Us aboard USS Nevada (BB-36) after a kamikaze attack off Okinawa, 27 March 1945