When we build stuff, we BUILD stuff! 80 years old, hasn't run in 30+ years, purrs like a kitten. What a machine, and thank you for bringing it back to life.
Everyone who worked with or on machines has that, just seeing this I can just smell the electric motors, warm air, hydraulics and grease. Even the feel of painted metal is not something you will ever forget
All the of the electrical and mechanical equipment on Naval ships from that era is made to survive , but It must have been well preserved to still be capable of doing this after so long .
I have only toured the USS Alabama. I did see the inside of turret two from the point we could enter on the deck. That was awesome to see the turret rotate on the Iowa. I think the Lady holing the camera said in another video that they would kind of do a documentary on getting the turret ready. I'm still looking for that. Firing it up after thirty years is awesome.
I lol'd when you freaked out when it bumped. I did the same thing when I first went for a ride. It would be cool for you to see an entire load evolution in person.
I have seen quite a bit of the BB-62 turrets so far, but since they do not (yet) move, it's been an absolute treat to see BB-61 demonstrating this. What a spectacle when you hear that 300 HP motor spin-up and ultimately the gears engage. Much appreciation to all of those whose efforts made this possible.
@@jamesbaca6723 I was wondering about the lack of hearing protection. Probably wasn't a thing until the 1980s reactivation of New Jersey, I'd assume...
80 year old equipment and she runs like new. Amazing engineering and construction of these ships, and a fantastic crew taking care of her. Congrats to the BB-61 team in this impressive milestone.
Proud of your work, hopefully mabey in the future y'all can get turret 1 moving to,mabey have a day were visitors can get up in the super structure and watch history come alive!!
So were we! His calm in the middle of everything was a huge key for us. He never doubted we could do it. Neither did Mike or Marty. That drove the rest of us forward and made this happen.
220kw motors aren't actually that big. Or maybe I'm just used to bigger ones,as I work on up to 2600kw motors (electrician in an industrial plant) But it's always great to see such old tech up and running, especially without (regular) maintenance for 30 years. More modern tech tends to break down every other day even with daylie maintenance 😂
I worked in as an Electrical Maint; tech in a steel mill, 300hp are little guys... in the unit I worked in we started up 6000hp sync. motors...great to see them get that turret rotating... always good to have the old hands there to do their old jobs...
@@paulmurphy773 great stuff would love to see one of those starting, I'm working in the rubber industry, so our motors are about half the size. Is it an American thing to rate electric motors in hp instead of kw? Here in Europe we usually rate them in kw, because electricity 😂
VERY EXCITING!!! Muy Buen, IOWA...... just hearing (woman's) excited voice, gave me GooseBumps!!!! And 'Senior Chief'......Way To GO = A Bravo Zulu (BZ) on your part, keeping it All Serious But ... having a good time remembering the sequences!!! To the people to make this possible....... a SUPERIOR Job and Huge BZ to You ALL!!! Proud to Serve, Still Serving Proudly..... (on the Only BB with Transversing Turrets!!)
As the father of children who have the “How to Train Your Dragon” series on all the time, personally I find the training of turrets to be more interesting.
Awesome to see! Thats my kind of ride so few can say they experienced. Next week will be the powder hoist right? Then after that load and fire? One can only hope haha
How about showing what the chief was watching so intently as he rotated the turret? Maybe use a color other than white when the closed captions are against the grey paint?
lol intro music confused me for a second. Thought i was about to see a offroad driving timelapse on the Matt's offroad recovery channel lol. Can't wait to visit Iowa. Got to see New Jersey in drydock.
This video is probably my favorite Iowa class museum video of all time. Until another Iowa class Battleship museum powers up one of their turrets, this series of videos of turret 3 turning on USS Iowa in 2023 will remain at the top of all Iowa museum videos. For me anyway. 👍 Come on Ryan, lets see a New Jersey turret turn! The guys on Iowa just busted your "not enough shore power" excuse. I knew that was a line of total BS anyway. It was funny reading replies from people defending that excuse. People who obviously knew NOTHING about electricity were acting like anyone who questioned that "lack of shore power" excuse were the complete idiots. When in reality, it was the other way around. lolol. 😂
Thank you for the kind words about our videos. The bottom line is we are blessed with a group of talented, passionate, go-getters who know how to ask the right people the right questions and find ways to get things done. You know, where there's a will... The ship wouldn't be here at all without that mindset.
@@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles I've toured your ship in the past and I was very impressed.... I was especially impressed by the crew who I visited with that day. The people I met that day who were working on Iowa were totally into what they were doing. You could tell that every one of them WANTED to be there. In fact, one of the guys stayed past his scheduled quitting time just to visit with me. I do not live in California but I hope to be back in San Pedro again soon.... and if I am, I will certainly be touring Battleship Iowa again. Thanks for the reply!
Doesn't necessarily mean all of the Iowa Class BBs can turn their turrets. We're extremely blessed to have a world-class team with a ton of experience that had the knowledge and ability to figure out how to make it happen with our shore power, as well as a ship that is in incredibly good shape. Can't speak to what kind of power the other ships have or what shape their equipment is in. Would be cool if they could if they all could do it, though. It's an amazing thing to experience!
Have you considered adding a variable frequency drive to that turret motor? Its an automated means of increasing the motor speed and controlling the amperage demand.
Why? What would be the point on an 80 year old museum ship that can’t rotate her turret 2 because of the mishap in 89 , cant turn turret 1 because it would block traffic and only turn turret 3 to load the prop shells for turret one display?
¿how does the gun laying drive works?, i thought it was direct drive geared but the motor is freewheeling and pinion does not start moving until brakes are released, so how does that work?, does it uses a torque converter or fluid coupling?
Nice work. I thought inrush current for a motor was more immediate than that and you would trip the breaker. Is the hydraulic system for the training motor separate from the rest of the turret?
@@legogenius1667 Ryan made the claim that it was impossible, both now and in the past, for a battleship to train a turret under shore power. ~10 months later, it was done. That's what he means.
@@jonathanbaird8109 He said that the New Jersey couldn't draw enough shore power. You know it's very possible that the NJ and Iowa, on different sides of the continent, might have different shore power draws?
Keep starting the motor with those repeated bumps and you're going to burn up the autotransformer in the starter. No disrespect to the Master Chief, but that method creates damaging heat. Don't know where it originated from, but it's wrong. Hit the starter once and let it spin up.
While each of the four Iowas have virtually identical turret systems, that's not to say each of the 11 turret systems were left by mothballing crews in exactly the same state. The train drive reduction gear has a capacity of 14 gallons of oil, did the yard leave that in there or drain it and replace with a preservative? The hydraulic part of train system has an expansion tank/reservoir capacity of 150 gallons (not including line and hyd motor capacities), did the yard leave that in there or drain and replace with a preservative? Were turret centering pins tack welded in place, or left free to be inserted and withdrawn? What condition were the electrical supply cables, motor controllers, and switchboxes left in? There are many variables to take into account. Shore power is another---are all of the Iowas connected with the same shore power capacity? Skilled and experienced manpower is another huge item--Do the four ships have an equivalent pool of retired sailors with the right ratings who might want to volunteer their time and effort? Do the organizations "owning" the four ships have equal resources to spend on any one project, such as training a turret? (Ostensibly the reason for Iowa's turret project was so they can align the turret to the loading position, so they can eventually load the many, many BL&P projectiles into the Turret 1 projectile flats so the weight of the projectiles can be ballast that is now in the form of water in forward tanks.) The other Iowas' organizations may have different priorities--for example, Battleship New Jersey's priorities (as stated in their videos) are to finish the teak deck project and then ramp up for a drydock period.
@@SomeRandomHuman717 You Hit it RIGHT-ON-da-NOSE!! May I 'quote you' on what you said.... because working on the IOWA, There ARE, as you said, "...retired sailors, who MIGHT Want to volunteer..." M. Mares OS1 USN (Ret) Education, Tours, Food Services, 'Former' Gun Tours, and 'Former' Ops
@@davidduma7615 That's true---the talent pool at Pearl Harbor (BB63), Long Beach (BB61), and Norfolk (BB64) has got to be way deeper than in Camden, NJ, not only from a naval-industrial standpoint but also from a retiree standpoint, as those three areas served as Home Ports. There was major warship building in the Philadelphia area during WW2, but the industry was in steady decline after that and pretty much evaporated in the early '90s.
Things aren’t built with the same engineering and technology as the Iowa class were. I bet given the funding, she’d fire back up and go right back to work if asked. Can’t wait to visit this amazing piece of history
We have no doubt she'd come right back if she were asked. Everything we've started ran as if it had been working the day before. It's just mind blowing and pretty special to witness!
Did the sailors back in the day do any sort of shaft alignment on the couplings when replacing motors/gearboxes? It’s what I specialize in.. thank you all for all you do!
Motor/ gearbox replacements would fall under a depot (shipyard) level repair. In general, the ship would carry high failure rate parts and consumables, but to answer your question, yes there are critical alignments that have to be done to keep the equipment from vibrating itself apart...
@@richardkoehnen7348 so you’re saying theirs no critical motor failures at sea lol? That’s what I’m asking. If sailors actually performed a form of shaft alignment that may be with a scale, rim and face with dials or double reverse just curious. I’m a journeyman Precision Millwright which is why I’m asking.
Alignments like you're talking about are pretty much beyond what ship's personnel have the capabilities to perform. MR or Machinery Repairmen on board can work miracles in the shop, but just even removing a motor or gearbox out of a turret would require extensive rigging, and removing other obstacles in the way, including ship's structure. So, you are correct in that the equipment was not allowed to break while underway. 😊
So, is the Senior Chief a GMGCS? I was an STG1 on a destroyer, got out for 30 seconds and enlisted in the Army for remainder of my 21 year career. BZ shipmates! 🫡
Very cool. Master Chief looked like he hadn't missed a step. Kudos to all!
The Iowa is very lucky to have a very skilled and capable crew.
When we build stuff, we BUILD stuff! 80 years old, hasn't run in 30+ years, purrs like a kitten. What a machine, and thank you for bringing it back to life.
I can literally smell the hydraulic fluid. I know it is only in my head but watching this takes me right back to 1989.
Everyone who worked with or on machines has that, just seeing this I can just smell the electric motors, warm air, hydraulics and grease. Even the feel of painted metal is not something you will ever forget
A colossal attaboy to the BB-61 crew!
Appreciation from your BB-62 fan club friends.
All the of the electrical and mechanical equipment on Naval ships from that era is made to survive , but It must have been well preserved to still be capable of doing this after so long .
BZ to the decommissioning crew!
I have only toured the USS Alabama. I did see the inside of turret two from the point we could enter on the deck. That was awesome to see the turret rotate on the Iowa. I think the Lady holing the camera said in another video that they would kind of do a documentary on getting the turret ready. I'm still looking for that. Firing it up after thirty years is awesome.
Our Enlisted and Senior Enlisted crewmen, the muscles of our United States Navy 🇺🇸! Bravo Zulu gentlemen and BB 61 Iowa.
I lol'd when you freaked out when it bumped. I did the same thing when I first went for a ride. It would be cool for you to see an entire load evolution in person.
..Coolest Thing To Happen Ever..
Oooo that sound of the enginge... goosebumbs!!
I have seen quite a bit of the BB-62 turrets so far, but since they do not (yet) move, it's been an absolute treat to see BB-61 demonstrating this. What a spectacle when you hear that 300 HP motor spin-up and ultimately the gears engage. Much appreciation to all of those whose efforts made this possible.
This is EXACTLY why I have tennitis and hearing loss . Listening to those motors
@@jamesbaca6723 I was wondering about the lack of hearing protection. Probably wasn't a thing until the 1980s reactivation of New Jersey, I'd assume...
80 year old equipment and she runs like new. Amazing engineering and construction of these ships, and a fantastic crew taking care of her. Congrats to the BB-61 team in this impressive milestone.
Thank you very much!
These videos never get old. Thanks for sharing these historic moments with us.
Fantastic stuff!!! This is the correct way to preserve history!! Thank you so much!!!
See that right hand handle grip? Guess what that trigger is for
@@jamesbaca6723 - Is it for the turret brake?
Awe-freaking-some!
Awesome work on the part of everyone involved. Hopefully all the Iowa's can one day get a turret or two up and training again.
Hard work pays off. Bravo Zulu!
Wow imagine how brave u gotta be handling that responsibility knowing the enemy is aiming at u also
Very cool.
Total studs. Setting the standard for all the turrets on all the IOWAs--leading the way for the other ships' crews to show what's achievable.
When things were still built in the good ole USA 🦅🇺🇸 still works 80 years later
This is awesome. Thank you y so much for posting
How cool! I was recently on this ship and I loved it! Turning a turret is even cooler! Keep it up Iowa crew!
Woooo Hoooooo WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!
Proud of your work, hopefully mabey in the future y'all can get turret 1 moving to,mabey have a day were visitors can get up in the super structure and watch history come alive!!
This finally answers the age old question of can the turrets still turb
OMG !😁
Great video. 🎉
Keep the videos coming!
All I can say is WOW! Absolutely incredible!
This was quite an emotional experience. BZ to the crew, and thankful Rich was there.
So were we! His calm in the middle of everything was a huge key for us. He never doubted we could do it. Neither did Mike or Marty. That drove the rest of us forward and made this happen.
300 HP is one big ass motor. ( Biggest ventilation fans in the LA metro subway system are 250 HP.) Great video!
220kw motors aren't actually that big.
Or maybe I'm just used to bigger ones,as I work on up to 2600kw motors (electrician in an industrial plant)
But it's always great to see such old tech up and running, especially without (regular) maintenance for 30 years. More modern tech tends to break down every other day even with daylie maintenance 😂
I worked in as an Electrical Maint; tech in a steel mill, 300hp are little guys... in the unit I worked in we started up 6000hp sync. motors...great to see them get that turret rotating... always good to have the old hands there to do their old jobs...
@@paulmurphy773 great stuff would love to see one of those starting, I'm working in the rubber industry, so our motors are about half the size.
Is it an American thing to rate electric motors in hp instead of kw?
Here in Europe we usually rate them in kw, because electricity 😂
I think that motor only makes hydraulic pressure to move around the turret
Outstanding!
That is SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Amazing 😊👍👏👏👏Keep going on 🍀👍👍👍
VERY EXCITING!!!
Muy Buen, IOWA...... just hearing (woman's) excited voice, gave me GooseBumps!!!! And 'Senior Chief'......Way To GO = A Bravo Zulu (BZ) on your part, keeping it All Serious But ... having a good time remembering the sequences!!!
To the people to make this possible....... a SUPERIOR Job and Huge BZ to You ALL!!!
Proud to Serve, Still Serving Proudly..... (on the Only BB with Transversing Turrets!!)
As I told Chief Marty a few weeks ago, seeing that turret rotate on video has never made me more proud to work aboard USS IOWA!
As the father of children who have the “How to Train Your Dragon” series on all the time, personally I find the training of turrets to be more interesting.
😂👍
Of course we could do How to Train Your Dragon to Train a Turret, presuming we could find a way to get a dragon inside...
@@davidnewell809 🤣🤣🤣
4.26 min. the sound of only that electric engine!
Can you immagine what it does sound when the whole turret is active!
Awesome to see! Thats my kind of ride so few can say they experienced. Next week will be the powder hoist right? Then after that load and fire? One can only hope haha
Amazing people you have there Iowa! 👍🏻😁
How about showing what the chief was watching so intently as he rotated the turret?
Maybe use a color other than white when the closed captions are against the grey paint?
He's watching what's essentially a compass. We'll get to that in a future video.
lol intro music confused me for a second. Thought i was about to see a offroad driving timelapse on the Matt's offroad recovery channel lol. Can't wait to visit Iowa. Got to see New Jersey in drydock.
Now y'all just need to get everything else back up and running and she'll be ready to throw some lead down range again. 😉
It must have felt very powerful sitting in that seat and having the trigger right there.
Bravo Zulu Iowa
This video is probably my favorite Iowa class museum video of all time. Until another Iowa class Battleship museum powers up one of their turrets, this series of videos of turret 3 turning on USS Iowa in 2023 will remain at the top of all Iowa museum videos. For me anyway. 👍
Come on Ryan, lets see a New Jersey turret turn! The guys on Iowa just busted your "not enough shore power" excuse. I knew that was a line of total BS anyway. It was funny reading replies from people defending that excuse. People who obviously knew NOTHING about electricity were acting like anyone who questioned that "lack of shore power" excuse were the complete idiots. When in reality, it was the other way around. lolol. 😂
Thank you for the kind words about our videos. The bottom line is we are blessed with a group of talented, passionate, go-getters who know how to ask the right people the right questions and find ways to get things done. You know, where there's a will... The ship wouldn't be here at all without that mindset.
@@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles I've toured your ship in the past and I was very impressed.... I was especially impressed by the crew who I visited with that day. The people I met that day who were working on Iowa were totally into what they were doing. You could tell that every one of them WANTED to be there. In fact, one of the guys stayed past his scheduled quitting time just to visit with me. I do not live in California but I hope to be back in San Pedro again soon.... and if I am, I will certainly be touring Battleship Iowa again. Thanks for the reply!
@@SlipFitGarage Thanks for your interest!
So does this mean all the Iowa class BB's can turn their main turrets? Can you elevate the main guns as well?
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Doesn't necessarily mean all of the Iowa Class BBs can turn their turrets. We're extremely blessed to have a world-class team with a ton of experience that had the knowledge and ability to figure out how to make it happen with our shore power, as well as a ship that is in incredibly good shape. Can't speak to what kind of power the other ships have or what shape their equipment is in. Would be cool if they could if they all could do it, though. It's an amazing thing to experience!
HOOYAH MASTER CHIEF!!!!!!!!
Is that my old Battleship Gunners Mate Chief Petty Officer ?
Do you mean @richardkoehnen7348?
Yup, where have you been hiding?
Have you considered adding a variable frequency drive to that turret motor? Its an automated means of increasing the motor speed and controlling the amperage demand.
Why? What would be the point on an 80 year old museum ship that can’t rotate her turret 2 because of the mishap in 89 , cant turn turret 1 because it would block traffic and only turn turret 3 to load the prop shells for turret one display?
If the old girl could cry she would, because for a short time she felt alive again..
Doing our best to make her feel alive as much as we can.
¿how does the gun laying drive works?, i thought it was direct drive geared but the motor is freewheeling and pinion does not start moving until brakes are released, so how does that work?, does it uses a torque converter or fluid coupling?
@martypalmiere7672 @richardkoehnen7348 ???
We're is the power coming from when the engines are off line. Is it from a off shore power point that they ship is plugged into.
Yes. We'll be covering that in a future video.
Nice work. I thought inrush current for a motor was more immediate than that and you would trip the breaker. Is the hydraulic system for the training motor separate from the rest of the turret?
There is only one "system " in the turret that is not a stand alone. That one is the parbuckling gypsy heads.
@@richardkoehnen7348 That's good. I hope there isn't too much leaking.
I would assume that you don't need to "bump" the motor if it's a combat situation.
No. We were being careful about how we started it - seeing how our shore power mound would the electrical load.
Ryan has been awfully quiet after this one
Do you mean New Jersey's curator? They're still putting out videos like normal, I saw one today.
@@legogenius1667 Ryan made the claim that it was impossible, both now and in the past, for a battleship to train a turret under shore power. ~10 months later, it was done. That's what he means.
@@jonathanbaird8109 He said that the New Jersey couldn't draw enough shore power. You know it's very possible that the NJ and Iowa, on different sides of the continent, might have different shore power draws?
I would think the biggest AMP draw would be on spin up not continuous operation
Yup.
Keep starting the motor with those repeated bumps and you're going to burn up the autotransformer in the starter. No disrespect to the Master Chief, but that method creates damaging heat. Don't know where it originated from, but it's wrong. Hit the starter once and let it spin up.
That’s how we did things in the 80s. Maybe your motors are weak. Maybe protocol changed in/from your era.
Attention BB-62
But Ryan said this couldn't be done...
While each of the four Iowas have virtually identical turret systems, that's not to say each of the 11 turret systems were left by mothballing crews in exactly the same state. The train drive reduction gear has a capacity of 14 gallons of oil, did the yard leave that in there or drain it and replace with a preservative? The hydraulic part of train system has an expansion tank/reservoir capacity of 150 gallons (not including line and hyd motor capacities), did the yard leave that in there or drain and replace with a preservative? Were turret centering pins tack welded in place, or left free to be inserted and withdrawn? What condition were the electrical supply cables, motor controllers, and switchboxes left in?
There are many variables to take into account. Shore power is another---are all of the Iowas connected with the same shore power capacity? Skilled and experienced manpower is another huge item--Do the four ships have an equivalent pool of retired sailors with the right ratings who might want to volunteer their time and effort? Do the organizations "owning" the four ships have equal resources to spend on any one project, such as training a turret? (Ostensibly the reason for Iowa's turret project was so they can align the turret to the loading position, so they can eventually load the many, many BL&P projectiles into the Turret 1 projectile flats so the weight of the projectiles can be ballast that is now in the form of water in forward tanks.) The other Iowas' organizations may have different priorities--for example, Battleship New Jersey's priorities (as stated in their videos) are to finish the teak deck project and then ramp up for a drydock period.
The people in charge of Iowa had lots of work to make the turret turn
@@SomeRandomHuman717 You Hit it RIGHT-ON-da-NOSE!!
May I 'quote you' on what you said.... because working on the IOWA, There ARE, as you said, "...retired sailors, who MIGHT Want to volunteer..."
M. Mares
OS1
USN (Ret)
Education, Tours, Food Services, 'Former' Gun Tours, and 'Former' Ops
Ryan doesn't have this crew.
@@davidduma7615 That's true---the talent pool at Pearl Harbor (BB63), Long Beach (BB61), and Norfolk (BB64) has got to be way deeper than in Camden, NJ, not only from a naval-industrial standpoint but also from a retiree standpoint, as those three areas served as Home Ports. There was major warship building in the Philadelphia area during WW2, but the industry was in steady decline after that and pretty much evaporated in the early '90s.
Things aren’t built with the same engineering and technology as the Iowa class were. I bet given the funding, she’d fire back up and go right back to work if asked. Can’t wait to visit this amazing piece of history
We have no doubt she'd come right back if she were asked. Everything we've started ran as if it had been working the day before. It's just mind blowing and pretty special to witness!
Couldnt really understand the conversation due to poor acoustics in there and motor noise. Maybe add more captions.
Note taken. Thanks. =)
Ol girl still has her teeth.
Cool video except for the stupid loud music
Did the sailors back in the day do any sort of shaft alignment on the couplings when replacing motors/gearboxes? It’s what I specialize in.. thank you all for all you do!
Motor/ gearbox replacements would fall under a depot (shipyard) level repair. In general, the ship would carry high failure rate parts and consumables, but to answer your question, yes there are critical alignments that have to be done to keep the equipment from vibrating itself apart...
@@richardkoehnen7348 so you’re saying theirs no critical motor failures at sea lol? That’s what I’m asking. If sailors actually performed a form of shaft alignment that may be with a scale, rim and face with dials or double reverse just curious. I’m a journeyman Precision Millwright which is why I’m asking.
Alignments like you're talking about are pretty much beyond what ship's personnel have the capabilities to perform. MR or Machinery Repairmen on board can work miracles in the shop, but just even removing a motor or gearbox out of a turret would require extensive rigging, and removing other obstacles in the way, including ship's structure.
So, you are correct in that the equipment was not allowed to break while underway. 😊
So, is the Senior Chief a GMGCS? I was an STG1 on a destroyer, got out for 30 seconds and enlisted in the Army for remainder of my 21 year career. BZ shipmates! 🫡