USS Wisconsin BB 64 - "Big Whiskey"
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
- Warship Guide - USS Wisconsin BB-64
USS Wisconsin is a legendary warship that entered service after the traditional role of the battleship had evolved. Built to slug it out with ships of the line such as herself, Wisconsin, or Big Whiskey as she’s affectionately known, instead found herself protecting the vitally important carriers of the US Fleet off the coast of Japan during the final year of the Pacific War. She then spent the rest of her career providing accurate and dependable gunfire support whenever she was called upon, and now, she resides on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk as a museum ship open to the public. She earned five battle stars for her World War II service, one for the Korean War, and she also received a Navy Unit Commendation for her service in the Persian Gulf.
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US National Archives (video), Navsource (photos), Naval History & Heritage Command (photos)
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She is the only Iowa class I haven't been on. Bucket list. Grand Gray Lady.
I attended the memorial service for the USS Iowa explosion victims in 1989. I heard USS New Jersey's guns off the coast of San Clemente Island in 1985. I toured USS Missouri while a museum in Bremerton WA in 1984. I toured USS Wisconsin in 2002. My brother served on USS Missouri during the first Gulf War.
Very good video. She was my last ship, I retired off of her on 1 Dec 1988.
My Grandfather served on Wisconsin during the Korean war. I grew up hearing stories about it.
Lucky
The Iowa's were pretty badass ships, but the Alaska class Heavy Cruiser (aka battle Cruisers) we're damn near as big. In fact I believe they were bigger than the South Dakota class that preceded the Iowa's too bad we didn't save any of them
So was he a witness to the legendary Temper Temper Incident?
I had an uncle who served on the Wisconsin during WWII and into Korea. My mother created a quilt for me and the inside blanket was one my uncle gave here from the Wisconsin.
I got to tour her on my way south on my sailboat, It is an insane piece of engineering
Your video brings pleasant memories to an old man. Thank you.
A proud service record for a very fine battleship. On Wisconsin!
My Father wasn't on a BB, He was stationed in Panama, but he did talk to sailors who were. He told me when all 9 barrels were salvoed, the whole ship would slip sideways about 15 feet, and you had to stand correctly or risk injuring your ankles.
Been on her what a beautiful ship!! Had a great time touring the ship. The gun's were assume to go through!
"We hurl shells as big as your Chevy 26 miles!"
I always said Volkswagens , but I like Chevy better.
Temper, temper big whisky.
It’s funny, but I was on the USS Merrill DD976 and we were actually the first ship to ever shoot a Tomahawk Cruise missile. so in my opinion we pave the way for these giants of the sea to sail again with a bolt on cruise missile system called Tomahawk. I smile a little bit when I hear that one was deployed. These things are 40 years old and still going strong.
USS Wisconsin: "Hey Dad. I'm getting bored here in the Persian Gulf. Do you mind if I take a trip to North Kor"
Uncle Sam: "Nooo!!"
Me: Huh?
@@buzz5969
Thats because Big Wiskey got hit by a 155mm artillery shell from a North Korean shore battery splintering the deck a bit. Big Wiskey when turned ALL NINE 16" GUNS on the shore battery and DELETED THE SHORE BATTERY AND THE HILL IT WAS POSITIONED ON. The destroyer escort USS Duncan flashed a morse code message saying "Tsk tsk. Temper temper"
I have a friend from the Wisconsin who claims he pushed the button that launched the first cruise missle against Iraq, even though a different battleship gets credit for it. Also, the Wisconsin is the longest battleship ever made ! 11" longer than all the other Iowa class battleships.
Why did they make her long was it to prevent the vibration of the shafts,or was it to increase her top speed
@user-nd5eq6yb9s she hit a destroyer, and it crushed her bow ! They then took the bow off an unfinished Iowa class battleship and welded it on making the Wisconsin 11" longer than all other Iowas.
@@Victrola777, which is the reason she has a nickname of “WisKy”, for it was the bow of the unfinished USS Kentucky that they used to repair the USS Wisconsin.
On my bucket list , see a Iowa class !!
Now a days $1.5 Billion is a drop in the ocean.
You just gave Youkraine 95 Billion😊
Philadelphia Naval ShipYard misses BB-64 but her sister ship BB-63 is now in Dry Dock #3 @ PNSY and the battleship New Jersey can be toured while in that dry dock right now.
Outstanding.
Fabulous.
Great vid. Thanks.
My only small criticism of this video is talking about Wisconsin in the past tense. The ship still has 4 steam turbine engines etc... although only an idiot(or the people in the movie Battleship) would fire up those boilers and put superheated steam into pipes that haven't been maintained in 30 years.
Good show.
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Beastly
My daddy served on USS Wisconsin.
Rest.
Did that Guam stop make the island tip over?
WIS (Wisconsin) + KY (Kentucky) = WISKY (rip BB-66)
My GF loves KY
Exactly, she is not referred to as "Big Whiskey" but, simply "WisKy". At that, the nickname stems from the "Eaton Incident" of 1954 while training in the Chesapeake.
Swam around the ship, when anchored off QHIN NHON, VIETNAM, after returning from the south pole, after attack on aliens, at the south pole.
Sure you did, what did Admiral Byrd have to say about it😂😂
Lol if she was so obsolete. Why is it the Navy has still not been able to field a replacement for her or her sisters. Sorry but if they are obsolete there should be no issue doing so yet they have tried how many times? Now the latest where the Zummwalt's and we all know what happened there. I think the problem was not that they were out of date. I'm sure they could build a newer ship to do her job using less men. The issue becomes she had more than one job so by the time you build separate ships to do each of those jobs are you really saving anything? They got to save safe though claiming the battle ship is obsolete. So build 4 to 6 new nuclear powered ones 3 for each cost so they can spell each other. You can automate a lot like you did with the Ford's and cut the crew down but still keep the capability. Sorry it's a no brainer
Perfect!
The battle ship was made obsolete by the air plane at the outbreak of World War Two. Twenty miles verses two hundred miles.
@@briannelson4493 you are right in the part your referring to. It is no longer a front line ship. What we are talking about is what it can do that other ships can't.
@@kellyschram5486😂😂
Tell me one thing that she can do that no other ship can do
@@kellyschram5486also the Zumwalt were not built to replace any kind of Battleship or anything else. They were built to be part of the littoral Navy fleet. Problem was they tried to pack too much into one ship. The latest version of the Arleigh Burke Destroyers, could literally think a battleship before they even knew what happened