Inside the History: 8" 55 Gun Room of Turret II on Heavy Cruiser USS Salem CA-139
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Inside the History: 8" 55 Gun Room of Turret II on Heavy Cruiser USS Salem CA-139
Battleship Cove is on the road to see one of the four remaining Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, MA built ships like USS Massachusetts and USS J.P. Kennedy Jr. DD-850. USS Salem is the last all-gun heavy cruiser in existance.
This video in our "Inside the History" series focuses on the 8"55 Gun Room of Turret II on USS Salem, its operation, and historical use. Battleship Gunner's Mate Tom Lowney discusses the operation, ammunition, and manpower utilized in this space with our resident Naval gunnery expert Dr. John Scholes.
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I am a local truck driver here in Massachusetts and I have passed this great ship many times crossing the bridge into Weymouth . But I am yet to do a tour . I've visited Battleship Cove ...but I am gonna visit the USS SALEM this summer . Mark my words !! I am a U.S. NAVY vet . And each time I visit one of these WWII ships ...the last was USS WISCONSIN in Norfolk VA ...I am always brought back to my NAVY days . Take care and GREAT video ...I loved it :)
i served on the uss newport news ca 148 longest serving des moins class heavy cruiser 25 1/2 years decommisioned in 1975 best duty i ever had
Back during '66 we shared a pier in San Diego with the USS Saint Paul CA73, the last "in commission" heavy cruiser "gun boat", I never tired of looking at her beautiful lines. In '68 on another ship, we were a pier away from the USS New Jersey in Norfolk as she was departing for Viet Nam service, I had the pleasure of wandering around her on a Sunday afternoon...
Thank you very much for explaining this. I've wondered how this worked for 54 years.
I grew up right next to the foreriver bridge and shipyard in the 60's, 70's, we'd swim there and jumped the bridge, back then it was a draw bridge, it was a great spot for a kid, kinda dangerous but we used it like our own amusement park, the LNG tankers they built in the time I jumped there were huge, they'd float the giant spheres on barges then the Goliath crane would hoist them into the ship, it was amazing to watch. Thanks for the memories.
Absolutely brilliant, it's a shame you couldn't see it cycle, so you could see the mechanism at work, so you understood the cometary, and what each action is. Brilliant 👍
Spent my first 10 months of after boot camp on the Newport News from May 1966 to Feb 1967 before going to ET school. Never got into the 8" turrets but handled 5" powder cases in mount 54 (port side, aft) handling room.
Ok great, I just added the Salem to my must-see list when I visit Boston later this year. Battleship Massachusetts is on the list, even though I visited in the 70s. :-)
Thanks for the great video guys!
If you get the new Kilroy Pass, you see both museums with the new combo ticket!
@@battleshipcove-americasfle2150 Is there a membership level that allows visits to both museums?
@@oneparticularharbor144 Not at this time as we are two separate organizations. However, we highly recommend the Kilroy Pass
Thank you for taking the pictures from inside the plexiglassed area. Too many museums that have put up plexiglass shields try to shoot through it and end up with horrible reflections from the lights that ruin the video. Very nice restoration of the entire space.
The gun based ships are so much more interesting for me, very informative video 👍
Extremely interesting as always - thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Love this show Respect TO you All Amen 🙏
Great video!!
Absolutely wonderful video!
Great material, looking forward to the next one
Very informative, thank you.
Very informative, thank you
Great topic and video. Always glad to see these two guys get together for another lesson in warship history.
Wow six seconds for the whole process. That's impressive.
computers aside.... jeebus the mechanical automation.....you can really see how it influenced future designs .. regardless this is one AWESOME piece of machinery. at any elevation.... friggen ridiculous
very very cool, quick question would there be "air conditiong" in the turrets and or spot positions for their computer's accuracy and tolerances???
I'm guessing no because if for whatever reason the main plotting room/rooms weren't operable you may have bigger problems than questioning the pinpoint accuracy of the backup computers
in short my question was pretty much answered in the video lol :I love this super deep intricate content on how things actually worked and functioned with real props {ie. the warship} and down to earth explanations and facts. Just straightforward information. I love it. when things are normalized again/caught up, I am going to head east and see some of these awesome historic mechanical zeniths of technology, production and implementation . Years ago when i was a young teen my parents took me to Norfolk and aboard the Wisconsin ......it was friggen awesome everything about the entire are was awesome. Now I can really appreciate everything for what it is and still be amazed and learn something every visit or video or delve into internet research lmao