USS Alabama (BB-60) WWII Battleship Tour, 4K 60fps 

They keep that inside. Don't know what your looking at?

It was easy for me when I slept on the USS Yorktown as a boyscout

On most museum ships, the gun turrets have their centering pins welded in place, so, the turrets can't be traversed, as well as other de-militarization done to the guns.

@@ExUSSailor That sucks.

@@ExUSSailor watch the USS New Jersey video on how they welded those turrets. Very easily undone.

@@Rogue-7.62 even if you can undo the pins, Ryan says in the same video you're referring to that shore power isn't enough to run the motors that operate the guns

The paint is definitely not original in most places.

Yes!

Exactly what I am wondering because I would love to take my son.

Thanks. I try to put out the best possible videos here.

Alabama is currently undergoing a deck replacement project for main deck

All six battleships of the two classes were decommissioned in the same year, with USS Indiana being decommed a full two months after North Carolina and Washington.

Not all of it. As of now the current replacement project only covers main deck. No plan has yet been made as to when the upper level wood will be replaced as far as I am aware. It's possible that it will be some time as well considering it is in much better shape than main deck.

I had the same thoughts. I've been on Alabama many times as a kid and had the pleasure to stay the night as a scout in one of the berthing compartments. I remember her being immaculate.

The SK-2 radar still rotates, there has always only been one Kingfisher (bought from the Mexican military), and the USN forbids any museum ship from getting up steam. Even if that were allowed, the ship is sitting in the bottom like North Carolina so starting the engines would only suck in silt and promptly destroy any system that needs feedwater. The same US Navy haphazardly removed a lot of parts for the Iowas, sometimes with torches and bolt cutters. There’s good news though. A multi-million dollar teak deck replacement is underway now. Lots of projects being done (turret interiors in particular), new paint and re-opened spaces done or planned. It’s harder to keep a BB looking as nice as, say, the destroyer Kidd, or ships with state funding. But work is being done and HNSA seems impressed. Good days are ahead for Mighty A.

@@PhantomP63 that's not all true, there is a WW2 US Submarine that has engines that do run. At least 3 of the 4 do anyway.

@@PhantomP63 the Alabama did have 2 Kingfishers on her deck in the early 1970's. At some point on was removed, the other one was removed later, primary due to it's condition. What happened to the 1st one is anyone's question. However during in action picture research for WWII, you can see several B&W pictures with 2 Kingfisher's on it aft deck. Not sure if it had two launcher's though. The old pictures seem to suggest it didn't, it appears to be mounted to a fixed stowage mount and in position near the crane and slightly lower to the deck.

As someone who has worked and volunteers at the Alabama, what's truly sad is to see comments like this made by people who are only speculating based off their own uninformed perspectives and in your case very poor recollections. The ship is in great shape and is much more accurate to her wartime appearance than she was in the early decades of being a museum ship. So much equipment was removed when she was decommissioned and put into mothballs. When Alabama was brought to Mobile, she was missing a lot of weapons and equipment that the Navy removed, such as the 20mm and both catapults to name two very noticeable pieces. The current 20mm mounts were saved from the ghost fleet of ships in the Mobile River, that is why the ship has any at all. The one catapult the ship has ever had since becoming a museum was taken from a cruiser. That is why it doesn't properly fit and contacts one of the aft 40mm tubs. The ship and park only had one Kingfisher since coming to Mobile, and you can see this in older postcards and photos. There were never two while the ship was a museum. Additionally, the one Kingfisher was lashed to the deck on the ship's centerline, not on the catapult, you can see this in old photos of the museum as well. The machinery could never have been brought online by the park which is a legal matter. Plus it had been sat unused for nearly 20 years, no way it would ever become operable again without major shipyard work. Alabama was towed from Washington state to Mobile. Then when the Iowas were reactivated in the 80s the Navy ripped a bunch of machinery and other equipment out of the older museum ships. As well, the Navy never threatened Alabama with reclaiming the ship, after asking around only North Carolina received that threat. As for the radar, as a museum it only rotated because staff took time to put a motor on the mast to rotate the SK-2. That is why only that one antenna ever rotated while the ship was a museum, and it doesn't get used much now because the motor is wearing out and can't be easily replaced without taking the mast off the ship as was done in the first place. The USS Alabama has most definitely not been neglected, and her condition now is arguably fantastic for her age as well as closest to her wartime fit she has ever been in since becoming a museum. The deck is being replaced, the ship is constantly receiving fresh coats of paint inside and out, the correct colors as well. Pretty much anything that can be restored to as close to working order as possible is being restored, they're even trying to get the ship's intercom working again. This ship is far from neglected and far from being in any kind of poor state. Your memories are wildly inaccurate and your complaints are misguided and unnecessary.

I have a cool pic of my Wife during a road trip cross country on one of the guns. Big!

You're welcome.

Also, it’s pretty insane to se the amount of work it takes to fire her guns

Hi Jeff! Those tubes are used for hammocks. Sailors would tie the hammock ropes to the hooks you see near the bottom of the tubes. It’s still a nearly six-foot climb to get in one, so it takes a bit of care.