Correcting a Leak and Preventing New Ones: Why We Are Dryocking the Battleship 

Thanks! We get a lot of heat for our audio not being perfect and it ain't easy to get it this far.

@@BattleshipNewJersey those are goofuses who hate ya 'cause they ain't ya... keep doing what you're doing 😁👍 you're great

@@DeviantOllam video on red teaming the battleship New Jersey when?

The irony of this comment is that you would have over 45000 tons of water above you at that depth if there was no ship there or the ship wouldnt float.

​@@shanieboi86it's a bit easier to swim through water than a battleship though

I like how you placed the thing that could sink the ship first last, yes corrosion is a vastly important part of vessel preservation but on a ship of this scale things like shaft glands and huge and can leak massive quantities of water into the ship before corrosion can even start to be an issue on an armored ship, through hole openings are the next important because some of the openings like the one shown in the video are also capable off leaking massive amounts of water into the ship and are much thinner than the material around

@@turkeyboyjh1probably wouldn’t do the list in series anyway

@@turkeyboyjh1 the gland seals can be repacked while in the water. They’re specifically designed to be able to do that. It’s easier to do it out of the water, but if they run out of time to do it, it can be done at her berth. The other stuff HAS to be done in drydock.

​@@turkeyboyjh1gland seals aren't as much of a problem on a shaft that's never expected to turn again.

@@turkeyboyjh1 the shaft tunnels are relatively small compartments, so if a gland seal failed, it would only flood a very small part of the ship. Not ideal, but it definitely would not sink it.

Both are equally important I wonder if there is a way they could pressurize the compartments containing the gland seals to check for leaks and/or keep water intrusion out in the future, I know the sealed doors are capable of taking quite immense amounts of pressure

Using air pressure to check seals can work in certain situations... but you have to be careful where used and how much pressure is applied. If you add too much pressure behind some of these seals (even just to check) the air pressure itself could push OUT through the seal, causing a leak allowing water to flow back in afterward.

The Maim feed pumps on Ranger and Hepburn , were 1500 psi.

Excellent, Thanks for the info

Nice description @theRealTracyDuane Glad to know more about how that works. Sounds like you have spent time with that equipment, to keep it running + healthy. A few thoughts/questions: 1) If the steam/condense/water cycle is a closed loop, then how does air/oxygen get into that water cycle to need deairation? 2) When steam goes through condenser, do you recall the temp of water coming out of condener, through BFP and back into boiler?? It would seem like a temp near 180F would condense steam to water (though still fairly hot) but require less fuel/energy for the boilers to heat water back to steam. ... or does the water need to be cooler than 150F to work in DFT properly? 3) I would like to understand more about the 1300+PSI Boiler Feed Pumps... Were the BFP electrical powered... steam powered... or some of each for redundancy and use at different times? About how many gallons per minute of condensed feed water had to be pumped back into those boilers? It would need to be a lot to keep BB62 turbines turning at 50,000hp each. We're the pumps themselves single stage centrifugal pumps... multi stage... or what kind of design to get that much water back into boilers running well over 1000PSI.

I would assume so as long as they hired competent welders, welding technology has came a long way even in the last 10 years

St.Louis let theirs sink Another town in NY? Let theirs sink but in shallow water

The navy is not involved. You'll see that team on this channel as we get closer to move day for sure!

they have drawings, don't need to scan it to make a ed model

We won't be running to the weak end of the bow or anything but we've got a list of concern spots we will look extra close at. But first, probably just a nice stroll around the whole thing

Stainless steel still corrodes, especially in salt water. Metallurgy is a very complex field.

Unless cheaply made

They aren’t allowed to power up any engineering equipment, so they probably aren’t allowed to replace stuff on it either

@@jasonmurawski5877why are Cod and Silversides able to run their engines then?

@@jimmiles33 that’s there specific navy contract. I cant say for certain on either of those ships but none of the iowas are allowed to run their engines, boilers, or diesels.

Absolutely not. We can't reactivate the systems that run steam and we can plumb in our own water for everything else.

Certainly a lot of -apartment blocks- terrorist strongholds to bombard

I was joking around on a comment board earlier today when I suggested that parking a battleship just off Gaza could do a couple of things for both Israel and our Navy. One thing she could do would be to act as a distraction to the Islamists, keeping their attention focused on her if she started training and elevating her main battery and their attention not so much on Special Forces or the regular army if they are able to move quietly. "Robert's Rule of Combat #23 - Use your opponent's paranoia against him."

Imagine parking New Jersey off off the coast in the Mediterranean with either the Ford or the Eisenhower strike groups...yeah baby ! 👍🥳👍🤘🤘

This exactly why we still need them! Gaza/Palestine would be a parking lot in a weekend.

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We would not want to do that even if we were allowed. We don't want to more holes in the ship, thats where the water comes in! We aren't allowed to activate the engines.

Yup. Then a topcoat of Flexseal. Good to go.

From what Ryan said in previous videos, they deteriorate much slower if at all. They are going to replace them with aluminium in the dry dock.

@sebastianjezierski8450 thank you hardley miss a video, just figured I'd ask

Also with tide isn't that brackish water?

You could for some of them but it's honestly better to leave them because when a valve on a system that should be empty suddenly starts leaking seawater, it tells you that your blank has failed, whereas if the sea chest was blanked off on the inside, you wouldn't know anything was wrong until the inner blank failed and flooded the compartment.

@@themightydropbear "you wouldn't know anything was wrong until the inner blank failed and flooded the compartment." A water-level sensor is like $2.50:) But I would not blank the inside either though because if there is a leak you still need to get in there to fix it. Leaving water inside it is the last thing you want and if the first thing you do when there is a small leak is to grind the inner plate off again....

They are specifically designed to be repacked wet. You don’t want to take a ship out of service just because the packing failed

Unlikely she'll get another chance at a drydock any time soon. Unfortunately, education is not that high on the list of politicians, and they're very not interested in helping veterans unless it suits their needs.

She runs on shore power. So once the grid workers turn into zombies, you have a dark ship. And any ship is fine since you can just remove the gangways and then the zombies can’t get to you.

@@jimmiles33 don't need power to survive lol. Gotta helipad for supply drops too. I think she'd be great. A defensible structure.

BB-62, and all Navy ships are closed loop steam systems. It’s easier to condense and reuse, than to use fresh feed each time.

@@richcruse2689 I just saw the size of Big J, I thought she could make fresh steam from sea water. Open loop. Like a bunch of locomotives chugging along on the high seas. Cool.

Tried it, the water moves too quickly and its too muddy.

I have had the “pleasure” of cleaning out all the condensers on NJ, and some Aux condensers. Best time, Brisbane, cleaning out jelly fish, while still hot, to keep ship and gens running. 😊

$10mil would just about cover everything, so we're only a couple million away

Aluminum is replacing the zinc.

@@ferky123 you know what i mean. i just didn’t want to type everything out.

How do you know they don't have plans in the works to drydock their ships? I'm in Norfolk VA and am sure that the Nauticus Museum has a plan for Wisconsin.

no plans probably just means no immediate plans. if there was a big issue, they would prioritize it.

bilge pumps.

New Jersey didn't have plans until recently

@@robertf3479 The Iowa museum has said they have no plans. There is no dry dock close to them on the West Coast.

No even if she was being considered she would need probably a year or two of maintenence and upgrading let alone crew training

no