Talk:USS Nevada (BB-36)/Conflicting sources
- See Note A2 for more information on what this list is about.
- Supporting 4 tubes
—DANFS: "4 21” tt" —Friedman, U.S. Battleships:
- —p. 95: "The standard battery for U.S battleships was revised to four underwater tubes. That applies only to the New York and Nevada classes; it had to be abandoned in the Pennsylvania class."
- —Chapter 5, p. 107: "On 30 March 1911, the General Board selected a ten-gun, 20.5-knot design (E in Table 7-1)." (The table number here is clearly a typo, as the information is actually laid out on the previous page spread in Table 5-2; Table 7-1 is two chapters and about 5 battleship classes later.) From Table 5-2, p. 104: "Schemes C through H had twenty-one 5-inch guns and four 21-inch torpedo tubes."
- —p. 145: "From the New York class on, a two-torpedo broadside was specified, first in the form of a twin tube in one room, and then, from the Nevada class onwards, two torpedo rooms, forward and aft of the main belt."
—Friedman and Jurens, Naval Firepower: p. 292: "The U.S. Navy, however, doubled the number of underwater tubes in the New York and Nevada to four."
—GlobalSecurity.org: "4 - 21 in torpedo tubes (above water)"
—Fitzsimons, Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare: p. 1982 supports 4
- Supporting 2 tubes
—Friedman, U.S. Battleships: p. 438 "Torpedo Tubes 2 - 21in submerged"
—HyperWar: "2x1 21" tt"
—The Battleship in the United States Navy: p. 46 supports 2
—The United States Navy in the World War, James Clayton Russell and William Emmet Moore, 1921.
—Battleships of World War I, "2 x 535mm/21in torpedoes" p. 59, Peter Hore, 2006
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