CBS News Philadelphia got a first-hand look at the important work being done while the Battleship New Jersey, America's most decorated battleship, is dry-docked at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
I served on Battleship New Jersey 1985-1987 maintaining the 5” gunnery Fire Control System. The Mark 1 Able analog computer. A huge device that was controlled by five Fire Control technicians during Naval Gunfire Support shore bombardment.
I’m a subscriber to the RU-vid channel on the New Jersey. Every episode is great and informative! Ryan and the others working there make it great! Thank you guys very much!
I remember our sub pulling into Sasebo, Japan just before the New Jersey. What an entrance she made. Kudos to Ryan Semansky for his great RU-vid channel on the great battleship.
Very happy that this beauty gets preserved 10M$ is an insignificant and irrelevant prices to pay to preserve history and teach it first-hand with a precious artifact and monument
I went on Board the New Jersey in long Beach CA, just before she was sent to Vietnam, I'll never forget that. Those 16 inch Rifles are impressive. Shoot a 2000 lb shell 25 miles... I'm glad to see that a number of Battlewagons are still around and not being sold for scrap...thanks for the positive news story for once.
The battleship new Jersey Museum and Memorial receives operating support from the new jersey department of state, as well as a number of businesses and private individuals like us. They really appreciate the support, there is a link to the channel somewhere idk this is youtube a suggestion will probably pop up after watching this video.
@scotttild No, not billions and no, not restoring. Their budget is $10 million to perform long over due preventive maintenance on the hull. I believe half the funding came from the state of New Jersey and the rest came from donations both large and small. The ship is now a museum and it takes lots of willing volunteers and many generous donors to keep her floating.
My father was a Sailor on a nearby ship in early 1943 when the New Jersey Fired all Nine Main Guns during her Shakedown Cruise. He said it was an Amazing Display of Sight and Sound.
Iconic for the entire Philadelphia area 🙂 Honestly also reminds me of ‘The Space battleship Yamato’ anime series (which got an updated remake several years ago ‘2199’ which is really good 😊 )
It's been admitted by shipyards that Ships like this could not be reproduced these days because many of the factories which made parts like the 16" guns no longer exit.
The Big Stick will sail once more i love it!!!!...she is a mitty ship, she is awesome to be fitted with new weapons and missiles with lasers will be nasty mean ship if she must go into harms way.
HUGE, Huge problem. The 'current" Navy of today is unaware that the Navy (years ago) accidentally sold the 16-inch barrel liners thinking they were just piping. You can shoot only so many rounds through those barrels before the 16 inch barrel liners need to be swutched out for new ones.
@@MarksChannel52 The CV-6 Enterprise, just to avoid any confusion some might have. There is a ship currently on the Great Lakes - the Lee A. Tregurtha - that was a transport during World War II and has 2 battle stars on her port side pilothouse.
The Battleship New Jersey RU-vid channel has a video talking about that. As previously said, they re-float the ship and shift it forward a few feet. She also has special "keels" to support the battleship during dry docking.
Perhaps the New Jersey and other mothballed ships should return to service to fill the large gap between the number of ships being decommissioned in coming years and the Navy’s goal of maintaining a surface fleet of 381 ships. It could be a great deterrent in the Pacific theater.
We don't need cannon fodder on the modern battlefield. Do you know what the range of an anti-ship missile is? Way more than the 27 mile range of those big guns
It has been suggested and rejected, based upon the logistics of just getting enough fuel into her. That's a truck that gets 5mpg, compared to modern destroyers that get 12mpg. She would need to travel with two oilers - just for her alone. Other concerns are the simple age and wear on the machinery itself. In preservation, it can last a long time, but these ships were buit with a short life span in mind, and to justwin a war. Re-tooling does not even exists anymore, and no arsenal builds the 16" shells, leaving the originals from the 1950's which can be unstable. Even if they removed the big guns and turrets, as well as all below deck suypporting structure, and replaceed all that with 300+ vertical launch tubes, the engines and related gear are all still very old. While it is certainly fast enough to keep up with the fleet, repairs would be complicated and no replacement parts exist. Making it into an Arsenal Ship by removing the turrets and most of the super structure would be awesome, but modern subs are more effective at that, and theyare already paid for as wellas being almost impossible to find and hit.
@@user-fu9vj9ix3g New Jersey's fuel capacity is approx. 2.3 MILLION gallons. That would last for four days at 33 knots, or over a month at 15-16 knots. In WW2, other than protecting the carriers, the other big job of the four Iowa-class battleships was to serve as a "gas station" for the dozens of destroyers accompanying the Pacific battle fleets. For the '80s deployments, this was still true--part of the recommissioning of the Iowas was conversion from bunker-C to marine distillate, what the rest of the fleet was using at the time. Not that I'm saying that New Jersey could or should come back, I'm just saying that your fuel argument is not a valid point.
I wonder if the 16 inch guns could utilize rocket assisted projectile rounds to extend theirs range if the New Jersey was ever reactivated? I doubt that will ever happen due to cost but it would be awesome to see.
I’ve read that there was a 11 inch GPS guided round that was under development when the Cold War ended. Using Sabots to fit the 16 inch guns it could’ve had a range over 100 miles. Probably didn’t get off the drawing board though or there might be more info about it.
You are correct. We are restoring WW2 era ships because we may need their analog systems to defend the country. With threats of nuclear weapons being used by Russian, Iran, China. We have been quietly been working on these ships. Do a RU-vid search on it. There are reputable sources reporting on it.
Isn't the Jersey the same battleship that laid waste to Beruit Lebanon right after the US Marine barracks was bombed and collapsed to the ground killing over two hundred marines? (And, the size of that dry-dock is insane)
Take the big guns out and find a way to put put modern missiles in it?? Wouldn't it it'd be easier to just design a ship made for modern missiles, like a Burke class..
@@rogerwilco5918 the big guns have more power then the ones on the destroyers and cruisers. The USS Wisconsin obliterated a North Korean shore artillery. Its escort signaled “Temper Temper” to the USS Wisconsin. And the Uss Wisconsin said the the North Koreans started it
That Battleship might be Old..but i guarantee, anyone that has ever been on the receiving end of those 16 inch guns, wouldn't want to go thru that again.
U Know really think , There getting her back to sail. She will be needed for these pirates an such sticking there noses out, wait to they just see this Behemoth.😮😮😮😢
The Iowa class BB's should be brought back to service, USN's missile cruisers cannot provide that kind of firepower they posses and one shell does not cost millions.
Awesome stuff.. But dont waste money on restoration when our Naval fleet is a record lows. If you're going to invest in the Battle Ship, update it with weapon/propulsion systems of today.
Permanent drydocking has the advantage of being the best choice to prevent corrosion, but eventually the structure of a heavy ship like this would start to "pancake."
It'll never happen. This ship is incredibly outdated. There is absolutely no use for this as modern ships now launch missiles from up to hundreds of miles away. I may be wrong but i think the range for the battleship is around just 26 miles for the big guns.
That is never going to happen. It would take easily 2+ years in dry dock and around $2 BILLION. Waste of time and money for a ship no longer appropriate or survivable
I really appreciate the work that these people are doing, and preserving this awesome piece of history... But is this really what we should be allocating money for at a time when the navy is so far behind in their procurement? I mean given how much the DoD overpays, I understand that $10 million is equivalent to half a jet, but still...
Can you imagine a ship like this? Shooting it’s huge guns at A terrorist haven again. The nice thing is the Navy has these ships in such an order they could be reactivated if needed. It’ll just take time.
- "the Navy has these ships in such an order they could be reactivated if needed." No, they REALLY don't. That claim is firmly in "things people who don't really know what they're talking about like to repeat" territory.
@@zackakai5173 you know know the museum has it in their contract that the navy can take over the ship whenever, You also know that the procedures for mothballing it require it be kept in good condition for reuse?
@@firedogman2280 you do know that amount of money it would take to get a ship like the USS New Jersey battle worthy again wold be so great that it would make more sense to build a whole new generation of battleships from scratch
