After calling .OrderBy the resulting List is not Sorted

Question

I have a class called ShipPosition that looks like this:

 public int nodesHit = 0;

 PositionNode currentNode;

I want to have a list of ships called shipPositionsin the order of most nodes hit to least. I already have a list of all the ships I want to order in a variable called allShips and so, to do this I used .OrderBy() in this line of code:

List<ShipPosition> shipPositions = allShips.OrderByDescending(ship => ship.nodesHit).ToList();

Yet shipPositions stay identical to allShips.

Can you please tell me what I am missing?

Answer 1

seemed to work ok for me here is the fiddle https://dotnetfiddle.net/5oQO3B

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
                    
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        List<Ship> ships= new List<Ship>();
        ships.Add(new Ship{NodesHit = 5});
        ships.Add(new Ship{NodesHit = 10});   
        ships.Add(new Ship{NodesHit = 3});
        ships.Add(new Ship{NodesHit = 9});
        ships.Add(new Ship{NodesHit = 1});
        
        foreach (Ship ship in ships.OrderByDescending(ship => ship.NodesHit))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(ship.NodesHit.ToString());
        }       
    }
}

public class  Ship{
    public int NodesHit {get; set;}
}