Talk:USS Nevada (BB-36)

"She" or "it"?

The article's lead refers to the ship as "it", while the rest of the article uses "she" and "her". Is this intentional? GBev1987 (talk) 12:18, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

“She” and “her” aren’t proper to use for ships, only a tradition… recommend change all those to “it” CanO27sprite (talk) 18:44, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Feminine pronouns are entirely proper to use for ships so you're wrong on that. As for your recommendation, I for one oppose. Have a nice day - wolf 01:07, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

any details of damage done at D-Day?

Fog of war aside, are there any fairly reliable reports of hits from her guns on German positions & the damgage therefrom? is 'therefrom' a word? it is now! -HammerFilmFan 50.111.195.179 (talk) 16:02, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

pearl harbor

there is a huge confusion in the literature. I will report with slow process the relevant passages that have troubled me (I an aged and I have troubles in getting this info). The two points are:

1: there are photos of the Nevada passing in front of the Shaw with the bow in opposite directions. At first I looked accurately at them for a mirror inversion (frequent in my old books). Now I believe that the Nevada did a 180o turn in a narrow channel. If a damaged ship was able to do this, this seems worth of an explicit statement. Moreover, we have a photo in which the Nevada passes north-south in front of the Shaw when exploded, then one in which passes south-north while the Shaw burns and finally when know that grounded south of the Shaw ... a 360o turn is required.

2: there is even confusion on the exact place of the Waipio and Hospital points (here I speak of the coordinates, not of what the Nevada did here). My books disagree (I do not quote them because an english speaker has hardly access to little-known italian books) . There is general agreement that the Hospital, Waipio and Nevada points as reported in OpenStreetMap are safe? In particular, if Waipio point is the tip of the peninsula that first splits the channel, a grounding at Waipio point is impossible and Waipio point should be understood as shore of the Waipio peninsula.

I am italian and my english is poor; please avoid slang. thanks.176.206.33.66 (talk) 12:26, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

For instance, in the photo gallery of this article there is a photo with this description

This photo is looking down the channel at Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941. The Nevada (BB-36) is visible at the far right of the photo, aground at Waipio Point being assisted by salvage craft. After first running aground at Hospital Point, to the left, the ship was moved by tugs to her present location to avoid bottle-necking the channel for ship traffic.

that is clearly at odd with the OpenStreetMap nomenclature for the positions of the W and H points — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.206.33.66 (talk) 14:32, 8 February 2025 (UTC) 176.206.33.66 (talk) 14:46, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Another member of the photo gallery is described

Nevada (BB-36) afire off the Ford Island seaplane base, with her bow pointed up-channel. Shaw (DD-373) is burning in the floating dry dock YFD-2 in the left background. Photographed from Ford Island, with a dredging line at left.

and therefore implies the 360o turn. The crane at stern makes sure the up-channel motion 176.206.33.66 (talk) 14:57, 8 February 2025 (UTC)