LIVE: Battleship New Jersey to leave Navy Yard, head to Paulsboro, NJ 

A grand old lady...

Old she maybe but she is still a bad ass.

Esse Navio pode ser velho possui uma beleza fora do normal. Claro para guerra moderna ele não aguentaria.

Old lady? Is Cher still sitting on that barrel?

@@PedroFerreira-un5pc sad thing is, most nations in the world don't even have a single battleship and this would devastate their mainland even to this day. I think people under estimate the power of these things.

Amen

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Yes I was also there in 1968 I didn't know what battleship it was but it was very interesting to watch I also like to watch the jet airplanes pounding that mountain what a waste at what the politicians put us through

I was young sailor on USS Shasta AE-33 during Desert Storm, we carried ammunition including 16 inch rounds for the battle ships. they are mighty ships.

@japav @smith @thomas thank you for yalls service 👏👏👏

С Ямато и Мусаси они жаль в эскадренном бою не встретились...Авианосцы решили исход войны на Тихом океане.Следует признать что с Японией вы здорово разобрались.Привет их России.

Yes, my friend I heard a similar comment from a vet while over there he said those rounds flying overhead sounded like a freight train by the way thank you for being there in uniform god bless

It was pathetically covered, pandered to the lowest common denominator. iS sHe bEiNg rEaCtiVaTeD? And other similar stupid questions from the audience. Any time they had a chance to cover truly interesting ground they instead served into mush minded questions from idiot viewers.

It always amazes me, when you compare them to a cruise ship, it's tiny.

@@jakerazmataz852 I dunno about tiny. The full sized cruise ships are around 1000ft. NJ is around 900ft. So its not a huge difference. Gross tonnage though and the visible comparison, sure. It doesnt have 8 decks of pure accommodation. But they are plenty big.

​@@patrigdon4205largest cruise ship is around 1200 ft.

Those are definitely memories that will last a lifetime.

Awesome. Truly.

Same here except during desert shield 1990: RedSea with BB-64. Alongside USS Saratoga, an 8 month cruise. Visiting later the Wisconsin battleship in Norfolk as a museum ship

How did they get those big guns on the flight deck of the Enterprise? 😂

Enterprise, hallowed name in the navy not the star trek b.s., and thank you your service must have been a sight.

I was there in the shipyards with her in 1984 when I was on the FF-1050. We were also in dry dock.

I was there boarding the USS OKINAWA to do some ship to shore assault training when I was in the Marine Corps, it was early 1982, the New Jersey was being upgraded with new Guns at the time, it was a sight to behold !

A schip in the water a Legion in the Air (108)🪡F24 camera 📷📜🏹🌐🗽

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!

That's awesome I was in Pearl harbor in 81 to 86 and I remember seeing her cruising around the islands!!!

I don't know if they have opened the turrets on the New Jersey, but if you are ever in Mobile Alabama, The USS Alabama has the turrets open and you can even go down in the barbette to the magazine area under one turret. They also have an aircraft museum (with an A-12, which is a one man SR-71 and was reported to have actually been faster), and a submarine. It is an excellent museum.

@@shenmisheshou7002 Thank you! We did tour and were insides turrets with my dad prior to his passing in 2017 at age 92 the battleships - USS Texas, USS Massachusetts,, and USS Alabama - great museums to see. Also, we saw the USS New Jersey and boarded USS Missouri to see surrender plaque in Bremerton, WA in 1978. One of the 8 inch 55 caliber main gun turrets from USS Louisville CA 28 damaged by kamikaze on Jan. 5, 1945 in Pacific was found in Nevada Desert used as a test detector for atomic bomb testing. Take care!

i always thought it would be cool if like once a year they held a fundraiser where they just fired them with no projectiles.. kinda like they do at civil war re-enactments. I would pay good money to be on deck when that went off.. even just to be on the dock. talk about not understanding that kind of power until you see it in person.

Iowa and Wisconsin have recently been relisted on the Navys Ship Registry, not all hope is lost.

I have to admit even knowing the through hole openings are covered over watching and waiting for smoke to start coming out of the stacks. 😂

​@@castlecircle7612Really?!? When? Cool!

@@daleeasternbrat816 February, i cant link the story YT took it down earlier, go to Trendy Digest and the story title is: REINSTATEMENT OF HISTORIC BATTLESHIPS: THE IOWA AND WISCONSIN’S UNCERTAIN FUTURE. Considering Navy says we wont get our first Constellation Class Frigate until 2029, it would actually be faster to reactivate the BB's than wait for the New FF constructions.

I watched so many of his videos and every single one was FANTASTIC. You might think he was a former captain of it. Hat's off to Ryan. Pretend we fired off a salute from her 16" guns.

I thought the most decorated ship was the enterprise?

We're pretty proud of the USS Texas down this way, although this was a spectacular show.

Well with all my due respects, we have a mutual agreement, in the first part of your statement, the Honorable hero BB62 is a beautiful ship, the fortunately thing sense is docked in the Honorable historical City Of Camden New Jersey, is that the 71,000 citizens of the Honorable historical City of Camden New Jersey don’t have to deal with people with psychological racialist problems like you and your 7 dumbs up. And by the way defamation of a Honorable historical City of the United state of America still a criminal act. So if you excuse I will continue watching the Honorable departure of the Honorable hero BB62 to be maintained.

With all my due respects we have a mutual agreement, in the first part of your statement, the honorable hero BB62 is a beautiful ship. Now the fortunately thing is that sense is docked on The Honorable Historical City of Camden New Jersey, the 71, 000 citizens don’t have to deal with a psychological racialist problem person like you and your 7 dumbs up. And by the way the defamation of a Honorable City of the United state of America still a criminal act. So now if you excuse me I will continue to watch the Honorable departure of the Honorable hero BB62 to be maintained.

Reid McAllister! :)

Could pull it out with my kayak, but it would take too long!!!

I agree. The sight of that little tug moving the big old battlewagon was impressive.

@@JohnnyBallou a jon boat with a 4hp. outboard is easier.

That’s an illusion created by the boot topping. They’ve painted it so that it will appear level when the ship is ballasted for her Camden berth.

Done intentionally

There is a Two foot slab of concrete at the dock entrance. Need the stern pitched up to ensure clearance.

They are heading to a pier in Poulsburough to pump out the ballast water. They had to bring the bow down so she would come down evenly to rest on the blocks.

Does the Bow have tooo much weight in it or they mess up on the Boot strip

Naw for today's standards that would be the Alaska and Montana class that were never built yes they had plans for after the Iowa class ships but technology started to make battleships look not very survivable by that point hence why 3 of the Iowas stayed in service for so long.

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instant pool where the shell lands.......

@@KILLKING110 the Alaska Class was built. Her main armament were 12" guns, not 16". All 4 Iowas were in service up to October, 1990 with Missouri remaining in commission until March of '92. The Iowa's are probably more survivable than any ship in the fleet - the issue is the cost to maintain and operate.

Not gonna happen

Royal Navy's last battle ship should have been preserved, truly a criminal act cutting that ship up.

Yes, wish had kept her, or one of the other battleships that had served in the war. It's a shame we only have one cruiser preserved. Not nearly as impressive as a Battleship.

It's just the way she is ballasted for the move out of dry dock... keeping the bow down so she doesn't drag her stern... will all look right after they de-water the ballast tanks

Currently the fastest battleship in the world😂

It's down at the bow because of the Ballast, if they didn't ballast the bow then they would have had issues with putting her on the keel blocks as the Iowa class are all stern heavy. PS, they repainted the Boot strap for the bow high trim the ship has when she is sitting at the birth without ballast in her.

It wasn’t recommissioned in the late 80s, it was the early 80s, I was stationed on it from 1985-1989 as the left gun captain turret one. We did go into Drydock in the late 80s for the usual overhaul that all ships go through periodically.

It is heavy bow ballasted on purpose to leave dry dock. The bow tanks will be lowered at its next birth before Camden.

It's sort of an optical deception. The ship coming out of drydock was ballasted with 2,000 tons of water to get within 3.8 feet of level trim, which is a requirement to enter or leave the drydock and to sit down on the blocks evenly. The boottopping is applied so that when all that ballast is pumped out, and the ship is riding about 10 feet higher at the bow than the stern (since there's no fuel, ammo, supplies, personnel, etc on board), it still visually "looks" like it's floating level when moored at the museum pier on the waterfront.

Оr maybe amunition will be up loading there?

That was before we had a draft dodging, sexual molesting, fraudster for a President, who calls our servicemen/women, losers and suckers

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