Finally, on July 31, 1948, a single torpedo dropped by an American plane allegedly did what the Germans and Japanese could not: send Nevada to the bottom of the sea.īut despite all of the witness to Nevada’s demise (“She was a grand old ship,” the commander of the Pacific Fleet told an AP reporter as the battleship went down), only relative bearings of the wreck site were reported by the navigators on the ships present. Then it was pummeled with shells launched from cruisers and bombs from planes during a multi-day naval exercise. The 575-foot-long battleship, painted bright orange from its earlier role as a nuclear test target, was towed out of Pearl Harbor to sea, where a classified explosive was detonated in its hull.
It took four and a half days to sink the U.S.S. The coronavirus-era mission began with a casual call last month between SEARCH, which has a large marine archaeology division, and Ocean Infinity, which had a vessel bristling with maritime survey equipment that just happened to be in the area where the Nevada was known to have sunk. "It's really a great thing that they found it," says Richard Ramsey, who served as a boatswain's mate on the Nevada from Normandy through Okinawa and Iwo Jima. The bow and stern of the vessel are missing. An initial survey of wreckage indicates that the battleship came to rest upside down on a muddy plain, with a debris field that stretches some 2,000 feet from the hull. The remains of the Nevada are located at a depth of more than 15,400 feet-nearly three miles-beneath the Pacific Ocean. and the marine robotics company Ocean Infinity. The discovery is the result of collaboration between the cultural resources management firm SEARCH Inc. The announcement was made today in a press release. Now, thanks to archival research and underwater survey of more than 100 square miles of seafloor, the remains of the Nevada have been located 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Photograph courtesy of Ocean Infinity/SEARCH, Inc.
Nevada’s designation was BB-36 and the 140 was painted on the structural “rib” at the ship’s stern ahead of atomic tests to facilitate post-blast damage reporting. The stern of the wreck has the remains of “36” and “140.” U.S.S.
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