Turning Turret 3 - One Year Later (includes previously unreleased footage)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Not sure how it went so fast, but it's been a year since we turned Turret 3. We decided to mark the anniversary by talking to the people who were inside that morning and releasing a bit of footage we hadn't shown you yet.
(The clanging noise in the background was from a cargo ship across the channel. The turret made no noise on deck as it turned - smooth as silk and completely quiet!)
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For more video on our Turret 3 project:
On deck (part 1): • Turning Turret III Aft...
On deck (part 2): • Turning Turret 3 After...
Inside the rest of the turret: • Inside A Rotating 16 I...
Starting the motor: • How To Train Your Turret
How we powered the motor: • How To Power A 16" Gun...
Split screen view of the trainer's position and on deck: • Rare Trainer's Seat Vi...
The rollers in motion: • Never Before Seen: 16"...
The first time a projectile had been loaded into a turret in 30 years: • We Loaded A 16" Projec...
Moving a projectile around the shell deck: • Zen and the Art of Par...
A discussion on what we do and don't need to ask the Navy for permission to do: • Iowa Class Battleship ...
Turning the turret was the result of months of hard work and research by our team, as well as input from Iowa Class battleship veterans. We make it look easy, but it's most definitely not.
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Is anyone else just completely geeking out over this?
Absolutely tremendous achievement for the crew of Iowa. Never in my lifetime did I expect to see a battleship come alive as Iowa did on that day. That equipment over 80 years old would perform so flawlessly is a testament to the shipbuilders at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the exceptional materials that all the Iowa's were built with. Thank you all so much for what you have done and continue to do. God bless all hands.
Any issues with cries of joy being mistaken for cries of alarm?
I know if I was making a machine move for the first time, I would be nervous every time I heard a noise that I wasn't expecting.
No. Sr Chief Rich is extremely experienced. Watch his face. He didn't even flinch. He had felt turrets move like that on multiple occasions. It was air releasing from the hydraulic brake release.
Awesome. Any plans to do it again? How do the barrels go up and down? Can you move them?
We left it off center to load projectiles. We'll turn it back to center when we finish.
We move the barrels up and down manually. Check out video here:
ua-cam.com/video/PgzpGJf9bjs/v-deo.html
It’d be great to get it fully operational (barrels up and down) and keep it that way for the occasional demo.
@@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Can you please make a community post when you do it so that I can go visit to watch it?
Can you folks do a video on the technical side of how you got the turret working? Like what you had to repair, what you had to replace, what you found that was still working and just needed power, how you powered it... etc..
One of the guys, I think Marty Palmiere has a YT channel where he talked about it a lot. Just search the names of the people in the video, one of them will come up with a channel.
@@acidtreat101 Marty doesn't actually have a channel. None of the folks in the video does. Look in the description. We linked a bunch of videos about this project there (they're also in a playlist), and we're working on a full documentary about it.
(No time frame on a release date, but we'll let you know when we get there.)
I took the turret tour in 2023. Amazing!!!
Seeing a turret move is such a magical sight. Very different from the usual static display of a museum ship, suddenly it's transformed again into the active battleship which it once was.
Thanks to the entire Iowa staff and volunteers for making this a reality :)
Bravo Zulu USS Iowa Crew.Job well done.
Battleship Iowa Turning Turret 3 - best "Merry Go Round" rides of this century.
Completely!
I actually walked round the upper deck when she visited Portmouth UK . Having worked on ships it's very impressive , these systems are very complicated and when laid up for so long idle hands can render them useless even if everything has survived in working order . It's a real achievement and congratulations to all those that were involved .
I went on this ship when I went on a field trip!!
Hell yes, giving me goosebumps 😅
Congrats Everyone, this would have been great to watch in person.
Need to visit again since our Plank owners visit long ago.
Wonderful
Yall should do every year on the anniversary....very awesome indeed.
The Iowa was protecting us in the IO during “Operation earnest will in 87-88 along with the Midway, obviously two very iconic ships. I never felt so safe😊
That is so cool! I went and saw the USS Wisconsin 2 days ago, another great Iowa class ship. Nothing was operational like yours though. Great video.
looks like the hollywood sign at 27 miles away is just in range.......................................
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Well Ryan and Libby did get to enjoy the ride to and from the dry dock plus that whole experience.
Libby stated recently that New Jerseys turrets will never move again. She was talking about that particular subject on the live stream while the ship was being moved to the dry dock. She said New Jersey was demilled a lot more thoroughly than Iowa was, a bunch of the critical wiring for the turrets has all been removed by the Navy, where on Iowa, it hasn't been.
Awesome
So what was all of the clattering and crashing going on? For those that were familiar with the procedure, was that normal for a turret in regular use during its commissioned service? Thanks!
Cargo ship across the channel in the port unloading. The turret was silent on deck. Motor noise is contained within the barbette. Mind-blowing how smooth and quiet it is!
@@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Ah! Thanks 🙏🏼
How many observers were there looking downward from that higher open observation platform? What is the correct name of their observation platform location?
Helicopter control.
I am still so mad I did not know this was happening a year ago. I totally would have been there! haha
We didn't make an announcement that it was happening because we had no idea if it would work or not. The people there that morning mainly were the ones who'd worked on the project.
Can the gun barrels be moved up and down with shore power?
Yes, but we would have a lot of work to do. The hydraulics are all there, but they have been decommissioned. And frankly, we don't have a need for that.
@@mikegetscher2165 do you work there? You sure know a lot.