USS Wisconsin Battleship Guided Tour with Veteran 

The guys with the loudest key noise when they walk are always the most knowledgeable at their job.

I saw this ship soon after it arrived in Norfolk on a field trip. The cameras don't do it justice. It is a MASSIVE ship

As a Wisconsin resident, I am proud of this ship and all who served on her.

Mr Pendergast, Thanks for your service!

This video makes me proud to be from Wisconsin. I was out in Norfolk maybe 20 years ago. We did a tour of the USS Wisconsin. Sadly at the time you could only be on the deck. Next time I'm out there I will get the tour.

my uncle jim served on the wisconsin in ww 2, i remember all his stories ! wow !

Nice find. I took a tour of the Wisconsin back in 88 when I was in the Navy waiting to head out to sea on the Eisenhower. I need to see her again, nice tour back in the day and I’m sure this will be a good tour as well.

Wow! Another simply amazing tour video. I stumbled onto these recently and can’t stop watching. The vets you consistently find are deeply knowledgeable and their insight during the tours brings the ships alive in ways most others do not. You also do a great job of drawing this out of them with your questions. Thanks and please keep these coming while this history is still alive. 💪

Great chap that Mr Pendergast. I would have loved to go inside a turret but the tour was fantastic anyway.

trying so hard to get this ship in world of warships right now lmao i think the iowa class battleships are the most beautiful warships ever made

The current captians gig on the wiskey is from the uss seattle, the first ship i served on.

Boy look at kevins face That is the face of a fighting man if i was to hazard a quess. That dude could stare paint into backing away slowly.

Great tour. There's no way to see it all in an hour RU-vid tour, but was disappointed the tour did not include the inside workings of one of the main gun turrets and the bridge. Now I'll have to come take the tour myself.

I’ve been their god bless you so impressed

The battleship New Jersey has a whole RU-vid page all about the ship, if you’re interested

The thing about all of the Iowa class battleships is they don’t really have that many years of combat time on them. They have been mothballed or now museums for most of their time. But the time for battleships has past. These were huge capital investments when they were built just as the nuclear aircraft carriers are today.

That dudes awesome 👌

When he was talking about sending new sailors to go find the “relative bearing grease” that made me laugh because when I served, we’d do something similar to the newbees. I was a corpsman and we used to send the new guys to the master chief’s office and ask him for the “shelf stretcher”. Another one was we’d ask them to go to one of the medical department heads and ask them to retrieve the keys to the “hep lock” (a hep lock is short for heparin lock which was an IV port that gets inserted into a patient to administer medication…no such thing as keys to unlock it). Fun times!!

He was a Commander-5?

Looks very nice! :)

I toured this ship when it was decommissioned with the USS Forrestal in the 90's at the Philadelphia navel yard. That tour was disappointing, all they did was walk us across the deck, I wanted to see stuff like the engine rooms, screws, guns, crew quarters, etc, this was much better though still didn't see that stuff.. At least I can say I walked the Wisconsin's deck. They are huge ships, you can't imagine until you see them in person.

I'm guessing that because they aren't in the video, none of the engine rooms, turrets, barbettes or main fire control are open for viewing.

I like the game of battleship on display near the berthing lol

Is there a guy 6 decks below that loads the 3 - 110 lb powder bags on to something that brings the up ? Or is it all done automatically?

Some one get that guy a glass of water. lol

The tour guide reminds of a politician...No bs....

Trump🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Iowa!!!

Can you imagine how much of piping, wiring, nuts and bolts, doors, lights, vents, stairs, ect. had to be installed while the ship was being made. WOW

Another wonderful tour. 👏 Thanks.

It was not a 30 foot tree either at the most maybe 5 feet

The snack bar is also known as the geedunk

When I visited her in April 2016 I saw a poster advertising a USO visit during the Gulf war featuring the Pointer Sisters, Ann Jillian, etc.. is that poster still displayed and in a more safekept frame?

Outstanding! Thank you sir! I would LOVE to be a guy giving a tour on my old ship - if it still existed....

I feel like we missed a considerably large portion of this boat compared to your other tours that took at least an hour longer to get through much smaller boats. At the same time, of course, I appreciate the look into this behemoth of a ship and am grateful for this sailors' time and years of service.

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