Touring a Senior Naval Officer's Stateroom on USS New Jersey
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this episode we're touring a stateroom.
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I commented on this over a year ago. It got many likes. :) I'd love to see a video about the medical staff during general quarters. It would be fascinating. Thanks!
100%
Even better would be to discuss medical facilities and staff during the marine invasions in the pacific. If I remember correctly they were designed to take casualties from shore as well as other ships in the battle group. They would have had additional medical staff and surgeons for an amphibious assault compared to normal peacetime operations. I want to say the medical staff quadruples
lol extra bit at the end
Bro gave us time to ponder
Gotta get over 10min for the algorithm
So blessed to get back to normal programming. Glad to hear about the ship.
So glad I watched till the end 😊
I hadn't until I saw this comment.
I hear ya Ryan, it has been a long day!!!
Thank you Libby and Ryan for taking my comment from “Battleship NJ Returns Home: From The Sky and the Ship” and make another ship exploration video!! I know you all are extremely busy getting the ship back open and ready for visitors. You guys are the best!
I loved the dry dock tour. How about a tour of the machine shop area. I toured the North Carolina and was impressed with the available shop equipment. I'm guessing the Iowa class is even more impressive. Great channel, keep up the good work.
Pretty luxurious quarters. As a Junior Engineering Officer aboard a Knox class frigate USS Ainsworth FF-1090. WE had a similar space for two men and it doubled as bedroom, bathroom, conference room, sometimes a late night mess hall and office for two. Heaven forbid the Navy could manage to have both "roommates" on the same watch.
Who is the girl in the picture? Is it a stock photo or an actual photo from someone who stayed in the cabin?
My mom. I don’t think she stayed long though.
Before I retired from the Air Force I heard an interesting story. I was stationed at Langley AFB in VA, close to Norfolk Navy Base. I was in Communications, and hence this story. We often worked with the Navy on joint exercises, etc. One of our guys had to go on one of the Navy Command ships for a couple of weeks. He was met at the gangway by the officer of the deck. He was in civilian clothes, so the OD asked what his rank was. He told him he was an E-6. The OD said , “Oh ok, we will have you stay in First Class berthing.” He said there was nothing first class about it! Several months later he had to do it again, but he had put on MSgt (E-8). This time , because of his rank, they put him in Chief’s quarters. He said it was a DRAMATIC difference!
Great story Rtd AF Cpt Got bumped
Up many times because of my Capt status
I grew up as a civilian kid on a Navy base, 2 blocks from the CO's house. My father was rank equivalent to a Captain (and later a RAdm), so we qualified for SOQ housing. My mother said the SOQs were "wife killers", so we lived in a JOQ. It is interesting to see what the shipboard SOQ looked like! Please talk about the number of "cabin boys" that were in service to tend to the occupants' needs.
Great content as always.
Great video as always. What about a video about the upper bow. You have talked about the revisions and changes briefly in past videos. I would like to know about the reason for the changes.
That's definitely a WW2 computer! I saw the floppy disc slot 😅😅😅
Too funny
what the heck is that huge round thing on the wall behind you behind the steel beam?
I was wondering the same thing.
More blooper reels at the end of videos, please!
Interesting. I've never seen computers like that in staterooms before. Was there some sort of primitive ship based intranet for them to access?
The room also has some similarities and differences to the staterooms on my museum ship (USS Hornet CV 12). Like, the desk is integrated into some of the shelving, and is painted seafoam green. There are also two safes- one in the back of the desk, and another safe on the wall next to the bed and sink.
Machine shop!!!!!! Show one of the volunteers using the machines to make something for the ship!
Seeing any space is awesome. But I have two requests.
I’d like to see exploration of more unrestored spaces. The museum has done an excellent job preserving the ship, which would make me think that an unrestored space would be pretty much as the navy left it at the end of the ships career.
I’d also love to see all of the weird spaces. The ones that beg the question, what on earth is this doing here or even, what was it even for!?
Good video. Stepping down a few levels, something like a senior petty officer's state room would be good.
Is that one of the radium alarm clocks? Do the numbers & the arms light up green in the dark!
Did that TV actually work inside that metal box?
Blooper reel ❗️
what is that round thing on the wall just behind your left shoulder?
What is the worst standing watch position/job when at sea, in port?
No safe . . . and every stateroom (from JO to senior officer) I ever occupied has a small safe built into the desk area.
humm. what is the half round projection on wall behind Ryan's left shoulder. I am skeptical as to the antenna on small TV picking anything up. I can believe a government PC in stateroom; highly doubt an Apple or MAC - unless the officers personal item.
What about doing reports?
Far easier via a word processor than hand.
That half round projection into the room back by the sink was a heavily insulated trunk line for the boiler system.
The computer would have been a personal item like the TV.
You are correct, the antenna would be useless inside the ship. There was likely a coax cable from the ships internal TV system though. It would show movies on a schedule as well as other prerecorded or possibly even programming produced on the ship throughout the day.
Where is the teak? Why is it so cramped? How is he supposed to entertain other officers over glass of port at the end of the shift?
Spot one or spot two
lol surprise ending
Prefer my BOQ at Offutt AFB
It's nice to be back to what feels like a bog standard New Jersey video. It's comforting, and informative. Shouts out to the staff!
Bog standard. I love that phrase.
The first time I saw a sink like that on the Wisconsin, I wondered how many officers used that sink for a secondary purpose in an emergency...
Saw the sinks on USS Hornet and had a similar thought! Haha.
You wouldn't want to use that sink to brush your teeth after using it for a secondary purpose.....
That smell doesn't go away....
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Definitely a good idea to put sinks higher just to avoid that kind of temptation.
that ending though! 🤣
What is the circular feature seen over your left shoulder? Also, what is up with the "Sopranos ending" of your video?...edit...just saw the end. Please include occasional outakes, adlibs, and bloopers! Love you guys, keep up the great work.
I wondered about that feature. Perhaps it's a fan casing from next door, or a holder for the occupant's hat.
HI RYAN,, MY SON MAX AND I JUST CAUGHT THE TAIL END ON A BLOOPER 10:07 ,, IT WAS FUNNY COULD YOU DO MORE IT MADE MY DAY ,,YOU SAID ITS BEEN A LONG DAY I AM TIRED ,,. HA!! YES IT'S BEEN A LONG DRY DOCK TIME TOO,, TAKE CARE OF YOUR SELF . LETS LAUGH TO.. PEACE THANKS..
If the Signal Shack has been refurbished, it would be nice to see how it looks now. Thank you for the tour of the stateroom!
As in radio room? If so, there are some Ham radio operators that have the radios working.
I'm. Carroll. Smeltzer. My. Dad. Was. On. The. USS. New. Jersey from. 1965. To. 1972. He. Was. On. Deck. Divion
I think you're confused - this is the internet, not a telegraph
@BattleshipNewJersey Too funny Ryan! Great video thanks for sharing!!!
Gaah Macintosh with a PC keyboard!
And a PC monitor
We had I think 50 of them in our first lab in the 80's IIc's then 2es in color no less. Really. Really expensive in the dollar of those days.
@@blazemkiv3641 I was a little less worried about the PC monitor, it was comparatively trivial to adapt analog video to a different port or even minor signaling changes compared to how keyboards work.
My guess is the museum doesn't have a lot of enough accurate Apple vintage stuff for display and cobbled something together
@@blue387 I expect so. But it's probably not that difficult to find an old Apple Keyboard II M048 like were commonly found on school computers, plus those are small and would be well suited to a small desk like that.
🤣Currently LOL'ing in Submariner!
The stateroom reminds me of a jail cell. Thank you Ryan for showing us this stateroom; small but better than the regular sailor's quarters.
there is only so much room on a battleship for crew... they're big but take hundreds of people to operate.... that square footage is precious. might seem small and spartan but imagine what life was like for the general crew sharing bunks in a small space.
@@sibhuskyguy In some cases, the navy might try and cram as many as 6 enlisted men into that same space. Maybe not on the BB-62 New Jersey, but the Mark 6 LCT's placed 6 men into a 9x10 space, which is about the size of that space Ryan was in.
@@davidbriggs7365 that was a 9-man space. lol
where did the leader of the enginer department live aboard and how did he hold meetings with his staff of officer to service the the engine room, boilers and electrics aboard.
I'd love for you to do a deep dive into the analog fire control computer for the 16" guns. It is a marvel of WW2 technology.
It would be good to contrast that space with a junior officer's stateroom. On the ships that I was on in the late 80's to 90's, there were bunks, as it was 2 to a stateroom for junior officers. Curious if that was the case on NJ.
I wouldn't be surprised if the New Jersey crammed as many as 6 junior officers into a single cabin.
I'd be quite happy to see whatever you can show. And I do hope I will be able to visit when she's fully up a running as a museum. Several years back when I had a job that had me running all over the country, I was fortunate enough to have time to visit BB-59. I feel bad for the fellow I was working with on that particular job because he was stuck with me spending a good 6 or 7 hours going anywhere they would let us on that ship. I managed to go through 2 large backup batteries trying to keep my phone running while I took pictures of, well, everything. Had I known ahead of time that we would end up there, I would have brought a proper camera. There's a portable drive here at home with literally hundreds of photos I took that day. It was the first battleship I had ever visited, something I'll never forget. Needless to say, I'd be more than happy to see whatever you all are willing to show, lol.
Do you have any pictures of a "aluminum tomato" target? I just seen it mentioned on a video about the USS Iowa. The docent said it was made to reflect radar so they would have a target for practice.
I cannot find any pictures of such a target. Would make for an interesting video.
It just kind of looks like a big red ball
Whose the lady in the pic on the desk?
In the Navy, all medical officers are called "Doctor" or "Doc". So you'd have Doctor Katz the ship's medical officer, and Capt. Katz, the ship's commanding officer. I don't think there was any confusion, but I'm sure they found it funny.
Did the ship have a printing press for bulletins what have you.
It did, here's a deep dive into the similar process on our friend Salem: ua-cam.com/video/mpo4pU2DdHY/v-deo.html
Has the museum ever considered turning some of the staterooms into Airbnb rooms for a fun overnight stay?
You can stay onboard the New Jersey overnight, but IIRC down in the crew quarters.
How about Jr. Officers staterooms? Like ensigns.
I once spent 1.5 years on a USAF base, as a contractor. My company was building a very sensitive facility, and I provided night security for the site. My "orders" stated that I had O-3 rank, so I could give orders to the military people I interacted with. I'm curious what the quarters for an O-3, a Liuetenent, on the New Jersey would have been like.
It probably would have been similar except that at least 2 officers would be sharing the space.
If possible, it would be neat to see a walk from one area to another. Like from this cabin to the bridge or a gun turret.
As an officer in the Coast Guard Auxiliary Culinary Assistance program (we supply volunteer cooks for USCGC Stations and Cutters) I'm always interested in the galleys, sculleries, and mess decks.. Two years ago I was deployed on the USCGC Bertholf both in the Arctic and Central America, my quarters were in officer's country where I shared space with a Navy Lieutenant - somewhat similar to this space except there were two built in bunks and an ensuite head and shower. Space was slightly bigger (we had separate desk spaces). Great sleeping space, constant background noise from ventilators, etc. and of course rocking of the ship (I was slightly surprised by the fore and aft motion which had to do with the stateroom being fairly far forward.). Ryan, thank you for your video series, keep up the great work.
lol the end
I appreciate the authenticity of the preserved spaces and how you leave them furnished as if the crew had just stepped out of the room.
So, stupid question: how would a sailor address the chief medical officer? As Dr. Katz? Or Capt. Katz? I assume it wouldn't be something silly like Dr. Capt Katz or Capt Dr Katz....
Have you done a tour of the ship's library? I remember CVN71 had a space dedicated to manuals for ship's systems that was maintained by engineering (E-1/E-2 divisions in late 80s) and probably others later. I can't remember the actual name of the space right now but we had a person in our division whose GQ station was that library.
Thank you for all of the informative videos! I've seen many of them and I know you speak about "what if the Navy needed the ship back" all the time, my question is about who would crew a WWII battleship in 2024? I've looked and there isn't "Battleship for Dumbies" operations manual available! Who would teach todays saliors how to operate the ship? Thanks
I'd love to see that area where they stored all the nuts and bolts and such. We saw it in passing one time, but I'm a hardware guy and would love to see some of what they stocked and how much they kept in stock, maybe even learn how the kept track of everything if somebody used a pound of #6×3/4" Flat Head Wood Screws or 2 dozen 1/4"-20x 1-1/4" hex head bolts how would they keep track of that? Or did some poor guys have to count all that out once a year? However, there may be very few as interested in this subject other then me. I still wish someone would make up some "Bullseye" posters Boards from different spaces. I'd buy a few from the Carpenters to hang in my workshop lol
There would have been no confusion because if you were a crew member and were told that Capt. Katz wants to see you, they would tell you "The Doc wants to see you at 1400." Navy corpsman and doctors of all kinds are all known as Doc.
Ah yes, it figures that the chief medical officer had a pack of butts on his desk. And seeing that ‘Baby Ben’ almost triggered my PTSD - only those that know, know.
Personally I would like a tour of the Personnel Office with its ranks of file cabinets for sailors service records and all those typewriters in an era before computers.
Another very significant space and operation to discuss would be every sailors best friend, the Postal Clerk!! He and his statff, needed a high security clearances as he had to tell shore stations where to route the ship's mail and so they sometimes knew where the ship was going before CIC did! From the Flag Admiral to the lowest seaman or fireman recruit, everyone relied on the PC for mail which until the 1990's was the ONLY WAY to communicate with loved ones or conduct naval business not urgent enough or too detailed/long to send as a radio message. Talk to some PC's (an extinct rating now) and you'll have plenty of stories!
What about the draft from the gap under the beam? Does that go into another passage way?
The Macintosh is anachronistic. The earliest model to use that chassis was the Quadra 630, released in mid 1994. New Jersey was decommissioned in early 1991.
What was considered the “break over” between senior officers and junior officers? Was it rank? Department head/duties? Some combination? Was there segregation according to duties? For example, we’re engineering officers quartered elsewhere, perhaps lower in the ship to be closer to machinery spaces? Just wondering how accommodation assignments were made.
I would love to know the name of “the guy” or “guys” that decided “USN Puke Green” was ‘soothing’ and a great color for the interior of a submarine or ship? I recently went to look at a new home and the ‘interior designer’ painted a larger portion of the walls in a very similar color. I don’t know if I was having non-soothing flashbacks over the color or my body just trying to retch up lunch because my brain couldn’t handle what it was seeing.
Check the old computers for leaking clock batteries that might be distroying the artefacts.
I always liked the "Glory Hole" episode. Fascinating the way that space became part of the problematic practices of American society.
Interesting glimpse in to how an officer lived while aboard. What I keep coming back to is how many years those rooms, decks, and companionways were silent, dark, and empty when the ship was mothballed. Just waiting for a crew and a chance to live again. It must be a ship filled with ghosts and stories.
I'd like to see areas of the ship that have been closed off for years and not available to the public. Also I'd love to see a comparison between how the enlisted men lived in 1945 and in the modern era-- what changes were made with regards to berthing, mess halls, bathrooms-- that sort of thing. How close would be their experiences?
More end screen bloopers, please!😂
Bit of an oddball question but have you gone around and pulled the backup batteries from your display computers? They're all leaking these days, turns the machine into a paperweight
I would like to see GFCS M56 control room. Thanks Pete in South Carolina.
I think a second (Doctor) Captain Katz might get a courtesy promotion to Commodore when aboard. ;P
I see a COSAL binder in the book shelf. Was that a supply officer room as well as the medical officer stateroom?
really I thought it would have been a little fancier for an officer or guest thats really spartan, surprising really but then again so is the popes appartment in the vatican, and many corporate headquarters, very non discript and pure functional, not at all like you see in the movies.
Looking at it, that could be a senior officer's stateroom on a Nimitz carrier. I don't see a difference.
I hope you had a good nap in there. 😉🖖
Unrelated question: Do you have any recommendations for relocating USS United States since it must now vacate its current berth in September ?
I thought my sight had failed at the end. Luckily my wife opened the curtain. Whew!
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I don’t think you’ve done a video in DC Central. The heart of damage control on the ship. That would be cool.
WW2 desk - sure, but not the TV and the computer on it. They are old- but NOT that old.
Considering these rooms have no windows (likely due to the risk of damage from blasts when the main guns are fired) I wonder how they are supposed to be aired out. Because an inhabited enclosed space like that is bound to accumulate moisture over time - doubly so in a tropical climate. - and all the fun little spores of mold and other pathogens that come with that.
Have you done the Admiral's quarters when the ship was used as flag ship?
What would it have been like in those rooms when the 16inch guns were fired? Curious….
I'd like more details about the shift thrust bearing!
Calling Dr Howard, Dr Fine, Dr Howard!
Any chance of doing a presentation on the Chief Engineer's berthing ?? I don't think that I have seen one on that position. Thank you for your time.
What do you mean with "Internet"? I do not think, that was available in 1990
Random question: Does the gap in the upper part of the bulkhead where the large beam passes through connect to another stateroom?
Take a nap Ryan, you deserve it 😊
Wow i thought you'd need a higher rank to be a battleship commander
I'd love to see a quick tour of the CPO quarters and the chief's mess.
I hate to be that guy, but that computer pictured in the stateroom is not accurate to when that ship was in service. That Macintosh design came out in the mid 90's.
What about the ship' air conditioning? If it was not built with it installed, when was it? Thanks
I’d like to see the nicest rack on the ship. Okay, that came out wrong….
That Macintosh from ~ 1994 is a little a-historical.
I would be very interested to know how many curators can be stacked in one of the gray water tanks
There is also an animated sit com from the mid 90's Called " Dr Katz "