When you drop an anchor on an Iowa-class battleship, the entire ship slams to a stop and pivots around it. I saw footage of this in a documentary. With aliens.
I, also, appreciate watching every evening. I was just wondering how Ryan decides what topic to talk about each day. I have a hard time deciding what to make for supper.
When I was in Vietnam I had the distinct pleasure of watching the USS New Jersey firing a LOT of full broadsides ... we were told it was into Laos and the Ho Chi Mihn Trail. My base was on the beach not far south of Da Nang. The ship was between us and the city, running parallel to the shore. It was very interesting to * See the flash, smoke, and sideways wake; then * Hear the shells going overhead; and finally * Hear the sound of that broadside of 16" guns! Among other things, it really drives home the difference in the speeds of light, the shells (supersonic), and sound. I did take photos, but that camera and roll of film became a casualty of war.
Thank you for your service. Also, too bad your photos were lost. If they were decent quality they might be very much used in books and RU-vid videos nowadays.
I want to compliment you on the topics you cover in this channel. They are really interesting and off the beaten path. I'm learning a lot. I was lucky to get a behind the scenes tour of the USS Iowa a few years ago. I'm a big WW II buff. I was with a friend and I was giving him a quasi-tour, telling him what I knew about the war in the Pacific, etc. A guide overheard me and could tell I would appreciate a deep dive. So he said, "Come here, I'll get you into places where most people don't get to go." One of the funnest days of my life.
Both USS North Carolina and USS Washington were both built with 3 anchors, with the third being in the cutout like Ryan said the Iowas were gonna have. Right after Pearl Harbor, the anchor was removed and a couple 20mm guns were placed in the cutout. Later on the cutout was eliminated completely.
Now I finally know what this weird cutout was for. Back when I played world of Warships and got the North Carolina, I always wondered why she has this weird cutout on the bow
Has any museum ship used cured-in-place pipe repair to improve the condition of waste and drainage pipes. Cured-in-place is extremely common in sewer utility repairs as it doesn't require any excavation. I could see it being useful to preventing leaks on New Jersey's drains as it basically relines the pipe.
Worked a few times wiring up large custom made machines that would take months. Way too often a project engineer would want changes & added motors & controls. Told them two things. 1) that if you have the money I had the time. Yep would only perform changes on overtime hours 2) For every 8 hours that I perform changes & add ons the signed guaranteed completion date would be pushed back one day.
Architects are a similar breed of cat. It can be very frustrating explaining to them that in the real world there's a bit more to making a change than using "delete" and "cut and paste" commands on your CAD.
Yes! Save the print shop! Right now I think only USS Salem has a working print shop, though USS Hornet is working on getting theirs in production. What was New Jersey's print shop like during its last active service?
Just amazing to think of the service life of any Navy Vessel. The Destroyer I served on was commissioned in 1961 and decommissioned in 1991. I served on her from 1985 to 1988. Those Battleships were commissioned during to opening hours of WWII and they are all still afloat. My ship went through a $47 million refit in late 87 and was taken out of service 4 years later, and eventually sunk as a reef project off South Carolina about 20 years ago.
As someone from the UK "$47 million refit in late 87 and was taken out of service 4 years later" reminds me of a saying in the RAF "If your airbase you are assigned to is suddenly getting a multi-million Pound investment, it means it will be closed and sold off within 5 years"
@@joewalker2152 I'm American and was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford in the early 80's the UK government spend millions on upgrading the base and within a couple of years after the fall of the USSR the base was closed. The US is the undisputed king of pouring money into a military base only to close it down.
My first ship, USS CUSHING (DD 985) had a ladies powder room forward of the Commodore’s Stateroom. We mostly used it as a head for the CIC watchstanders.
I would love to see how they would react to Ryan being there and telling them "No, that's bad for conservating New Jersey as a museum ship 80 years after she was launched". Meanwhile they probably think "The Iowa class is around that long?!"
A number of RN capital ships had the third anchor removed to save weight - anchor and chain are heavy and you can add something else - like AA or radar
Engraved labels and tags were also made in plastic using an engraving pantograph;; these are laminated multicolored plastic labels that we see everywhere. USS SLATER has a working period machine to do this; hopefully we can get one for HORNET as well
Interesting video. I have one comment about the port hole covers. They were needed for darken ship situations. When the ship is running at night in a war zone all lights that might be visible from outside the ship needed to be blocked or turned off to make the ship is harder to see. Even the ships running lights would be turned off. With RADAR becoming operational in WW II darken-ship might be less effective, but I know that we practiced it in the late 1960's.
We continued to "Darken Ship" at least through my retirement in 1993. I believe the Navy still does this, especially since we have some goobers out there who don't like us very much. 🙂
Darken ship is still a practice, however if they're getting rid of cabin doors and reducing pipe needed for scupper drains, they could have just closed the storm covers. Porthole curtains are definitely officer wants.
I wonder if an additional factor on "the Ladies" facilities would be Eleanor Roosevelt? She was known for being FDR's personal envoy. I would not be surprised if she would meet on board the Admiral's ship.
You are probably on to something since Eleanor did at least one Pacific tour during the war and she did indeed go everywhere. That was on the instructions of FDR. If she visited a school, he wanted her to go into the kitchen and look at what was in the pots and pantries.
In the weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy destroyers present were ordered to remove many items (this is in regard to a "goldplater" Bagley-class destroyer: * excess wooden items (such as bookcases, gratings, duckboards, railing covers on the bridge) * linoleum flooring, any decorative paint on compartment walls, * decorative flags, curtains, awnings, rugs * dress uniforms, civilian clothing * correspondence more than one year old, paper and office supplies in excess of a three month supply * glass in bulletin boards * cameras (except official ones) * more than 5 gallons of gasoline, 10 gallons of kerosene, 20 gallons of torpedo alcohol, etc. * portholes on the first platform. Without these, the crew spaces aft of the engine room get very humid. * more than one ship's boat (her original fit had two 23' motor whaleboats and one more boat in addition to the two whateboats)
Delete the conning towers, save about 700 tons, and make the bridge space a bit more user friendly with more room and weight to add additional equipment
Old salt to newbie: look up -- That's the overhead. Look down -- That's the deck. Look to the side -- That's a bulkhead. Use the wrong nomenclature again and I'm gonna stuff you out one of those little round windows. [The only clean joke about the portholes that I know.] Thank you for the work you put into these videos.
@@suryia6706 If POW and Repulse had been able to avoid being sunk by turning back when the plan started going south it might well have made a major difference in the fall of Singapore by delaying it for a few days or even weeks through stiffening the defenses. Inevitably Singapore would still have fallen but PERHAPS the ships would have survived to continue as a major pain to the Japanese Navy for a while.
Speaking of anchors... How did they anchor the ship? My understanding is some ships are really held by the payout of chain resting on the sea floor for various reasons as opposed to the anchor on the bottom.
The anchor is there to just hold the chain to the sea floor while the weight of the chain is the actual thing holding the ship in place. With two anchors, the ship would point in the direction of the wind/current and drop one then as they let the chain out they steam to the opposite side and drop the other anchor then reverse or let the wind/current pull you back so the anchors form a V shape.
@@wfoj21 Yeah the anchor pulls the chain, making a pile of chain. Then you drift around for a minute and then let out another pile or two of chain. Far more mass than just an anchor.
Any anchor works best if it’s pulled horizontally along the sea bed. Using chain is the simplest way of doing this. It also has the effect of reducing snatching when the ship moves due to wind/waves. The disadvantage is that you have to haul all that mass back up!
Considering all the redundancies on the ship, and the fact that civilian ships carry spare anchors, one would think a battleship that will be deployed for months at a time would carry a spare.
So it seems to me it would make much more sense to post a guard outside a regular head and dedicate it to female visitors while they were on board than to have a full time dedicated female head. It's not like there's only one head on blue water ships.
I imagine the main reason for the builders plans to designate that *this specific* one would be the ladies room when necessary is someone decided it would be better if some ambassador's wife didn't have to use a room with a urinal in it.
I’ve got to admit, I wasn’t too interested in this video from the thumbnail, but was fascinated by the end. Two random questions: How much aluminum is in the BB55 and BB57 classes? If the navy had known that these ships would be retained into the 21st century as mobilization assets, would they have skimped on the brass piping?
Although this is a question about AFTER they were built, but I wondered why many of the 40mm bofors guns on the Iowa class battleships when they were built during ww2 and after, were not eventually replaced with the newly developed 76.2mm automatic canons found on the Des Moines class heavy cruisers and later Worcester class light cruisers before the Korean and Veitnam wars before rocket defense systems and CWIS systems installed?
Why? The 76.2mm was an anti-air defense. By the Korean war they were already nearly obsolete and in Vietnam they certainly were obsolete. Jet aircraft and missiles made any projectile AA weapon essentially useless, even when RADAR guided in favor of missiles. The primary and only function of Iowas in both of those conflicts was really just shore bombardment. In WW2 it was shore bombardment and Carrier AA screening defense. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FVKLsh71yXw.html
I remember being thoroughly confused by the Revell Arizona; I kept searching the parts tree thinking I must be missing an anchor because OF COURSE the ship wouldn't be asymmetrical...
It is not much use to have a spare anchor but not a spare chain. I'd think that most times when an anchor is lost, a good part of the chain (if not all of it) goes with it.
I'm gonna pile on here.😀 Back in my University days (Nuclear Engineering) it was made abundantly clear that Nu Cle Ar was correct, and Nu Qu Lur was incorrect at best. This from the professors at Berkeley who invented quite a bit of the technology. Nuclear - In reference to the atomic nucleus. There is no such thing as an atomic nu qu lus... Bush II really messed this up, and it was interesting to watch many high ranking military officers follow suit even though they must have known better!😳 By the way, I love the channel!
I wonder what the reaction of her designers and builders would be if you had told them back in WWII that USS New Jersey would not only survive combat action in three wars, but would still be afloat when we had space stations in orbit and robots on Mars.
You'd once shown on a hypothetical 'what if recommission' episode that there are cutouts and voids where piping used to be- given the mission is now longevity, would it be possible to institute the drainage as would be best? This is a living classroom after all
It's less a matter of "how often" and more a matter of "What goes wrong if you have an insufficient number when you do need 'em". Consider that when forward-deployed, you'll often have a lot of ships gathering close together in what is a merely temporary mustering point from which to launch some action. If someone in the middle of the pack starts drifting even a few meters more than the parking attendants planned for... well. You get a mess, is what you get.
I love this channel and am currently saving towards a visit. Have you done a video in the past that answers the question "what would it take to re-activate the ship in some form?" Perhaps it would be the lowest form such as a ship that was seaworthy and could fire from the main guns but not much more.
Decade plus for Ford class Carrier and wont even mention failed Cruiser attempt. A Battleship AND Nuclear powered 15-20yrs... Do like the sound of it though!
Perhaps a bit of a nerdy question, but I'm kind of curious about which features the boilers have in order to increase efficiency. Are there any solutions in place to recycle waste heat from the dead steam? Any heat recuperation from the exhaust to heat the incoming air?
Hey - background noises change twice in this video - once 30 second before end, have to rewatch determine exact point of other change. I think at points of change there are some interesting - impressive editing done.
The BNJ facility is right next to "Freedom Mortgage Pavilion," an outdoor concert and theater venue. It wouldn't be surprising to hear sound checks and rehearsal sessions coming from the venue.
Bet that if all four Iowas were “ welded “ instead of being partially welded and riveted “ could probably have cut the amount the time of them being put together.
I just saw a video by History in the dark that came out 10 days ago on the BB Pennsylvania and it had a picture of her running at speed and it only had 2 of the anchors instead of 3 as there was an empty hawspipe for it. Anchor shortage maybe for the reduction to two instead of 3?
If it was an alternative to the Zummwalts, perhaps keep the hulls but power with gas turbines and fill the hull with VLS's like the planned Arsenal Ship.
That's a Naval jack, so the flag that identifies the ship as being part of the US Navy. It's at half because the national flag was at half at the time, I think because of the shootings in Maine.
Within a certain degree you can take the hull measurements and do the math. Width x length x depth = water displacement . If I remember correctly the ship I volunteer lst 325 when loading a Sherman tank would lower the ship 1 inch in the water so could almost figure up how much tonnage of cargo by looking at the depth when loaded or unloaded
@@johnfleet235 Yes they did, and also prepared to upgrade the main armament later on, to circumvent the treaty limits. Mogamis where a prime example, bigger guns where installed and problems with top heaviness and stability occurred, less than surprisingly. Loss of balance, in many senses of the word, though strong gunnery force was gained.
