This image shows four gun turrets on the USS Nevada as seen Monday, March 24, by NOAA Ocean Exploration researchers. The ship ...
USS America was laid down in 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation. By 1965, she conducted her first catapult launch with a Douglas A-C4 Skyhawk.
The sight clearly surprised researchers with NOAA Ocean Exploration, who visited the shipwreck March 24 as part of an ongoing expedition off Hawaii. The USS Nevada did not have a crew aboard when ...
The USS Nevada served in World War I and World War II and sat off Bikini Atoll in July 1946 during atomic bomb tests, historians say. The wreck is 65 nautical miles southeast of Pearl Harbor ...