Ship Damage Reports

[besilarius]

Here is an unusual site.  It has dug up the damage reports on many ships, which gives a lot of detail on how the damage was inflicted.  Here is the report on Nevada, detailing the Pearl Harbor damage.

http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/BB36/PearlHarborDamageReport/

If you like this kind of material, the home site is
http://www.researcheratlarge.com/

[Con]

Kind of sad what happened to her post war...I guess the navy cannot afford to be sympathetic with their equipment

Nevada then returned to Pearl Harbor after a brief stint of occupation duty in Tokyo Bay. Nevada was surveyed and, at 32⅓ years old, she was deemed too old to be kept in the post-war fleet.[4][55] As a result, she was assigned to be a target ship for the first Bikini atomic experiments (Operation Crossroads) of July 1946.[1] The experiment consisted of detonating two atomic bombs to test their effectiveness against ships.[86] Nevada was designated "ground zero"[87] for the first test, codenamed 'Able', which used an air-dropped weapon; as such, she was painted an "ugly"[88] reddish-orange to help the bombardier's aim. However, even with the high visibility color scheme, the bomb fell about 1,700 yd (1,600 m) off-target, exploding above the attack transport Gilliam instead.[88] Nevada also survived the second test—'Baker', a detonation some 90 ft (27 m) below the surface of the water — but she was damaged and extremely radioactive.[55] Nevada was then towed to Pearl Harbor and decommissioned on 29 August 1946.[1]

After she was thoroughly examined at Pearl Harbor, her final sortie came on 31 July 1948, when Iowa and two other vessels[n] used Nevada as a gunnery target for practice.[4][70] The three ships did not sink Nevada, so she was given a coup de grâce with an aerial torpedo hit amidships.[88][4]

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Thank you Besiliarius!

THIS is the groggy info I love.