USS Nevada Discovered: The ship that almost escaped the Pearl Harbor attack unharmed has been discovered in 15,000 feet of water. If you can't open this link, Google will get info for...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The ship that almost escaped the Pearl Harbor attack unharmed has been discovered in 15,000 feet of water. If you can't open this link, Google will get info for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/25/uss-nevada-wreck-discovered-pearl-harbor/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_headlines

CWGordon

Thank you for the information and link

twowindsbear

Quite a story. Thanks for posting.

JustJill Loc: Iowa

jerryc41 wrote:

The ship that almost escaped the Pearl Harbor attack unharmed has been discovered in 15,000 feet of water. If you can't open this link, Google will get info for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/25/uss-nevada-wreck-discovered-pearl-harbor/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_headlines

Very interesting, and I did read a few more articles. It does not sound like they are going to raise it though.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

JustJill wrote:

Very interesting, and I did read a few more articles. It does not sound like they are going to raise it though.

After being in an atomic test, then being sunk ‘the hard way’, she deserves an eternal rest.

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

jerryc41 wrote:

The ship that almost escaped the Pearl Harbor attack unharmed has been discovered in 15,000 feet of water. If you can't open this link, Google will get info for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/25/uss-nevada-wreck-discovered-pearl-harbor/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_headlines

Very interesting, thanks

machia Loc: NJ

Thanks for the post. That was a good read.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

jerryc41 wrote:

The ship that almost escaped the Pearl Harbor attack unharmed has been discovered in 15,000 feet of water. If you can't open this link, Google will get info for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/25/uss-nevada-wreck-discovered-pearl-harbor/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_headlines

BS link, says pay to open.

Dalek Loc: Detroit, Miami, Goffstown

Cannot stand those pop=up ads to join something.

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

I can't help but think that that is an awful lot of steel now lying at the bottom of the ocean. Why not cut up these ships and use the steel for other purposes? After World War I all of the capital ships of the German navy were sunk. Britain sure could have used that steel in 1940.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Bigmike1 wrote:

I can't help but think that that is an awful lot of steel now lying at the bottom of the ocean. Why not cut up these ships and use the steel for other purposes? After World War I all of the capital ships of the German navy were sunk. Britain sure could have used that steel in 1940.

They have in recent years.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Bigmike1 wrote:

I can't help but think that that is an awful lot of steel now lying at the bottom of the ocean. Why not cut up these ships and use the steel for other purposes? After World War I all of the capital ships of the German navy were sunk. Britain sure could have used that steel in 1940.

Recycling had not been invented?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Architect1776 wrote:

Recycling had not been invented?

One of the supposed causes of World War II was the decision of the US to no longer ship scrap iron/steel to Japan, who lacked domestic sources of steel, so we did collect such things, but only in smaller quantities. Sinking ships was a common way of destroying them until fairly recently.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

rehess wrote:

One of the supposed causes of World War II was the decision of the US to no longer ship scrap iron/steel to Japan, who lacked domestic sources of steel, so we did collect such things, but only in smaller quantities. Sinking ships was a common way of destroying them until fairly recently.

Yes,
We sank a crap load after WWII with nukes.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

jerryc41 wrote:

The ship that almost escaped the Pearl Harbor attack unharmed has been discovered in 15,000 feet of water. If you can't open this link, Google will get info for you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/05/25/uss-nevada-wreck-discovered-pearl-harbor/?utm_campaign=wp_todays_headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_headlines

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