The Birthplace of Battleship NJ: The Slipways
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
- In this episode we're at the birth place of the Battleship.
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Every once in a while you see a person that is perfect for the job they are in. This curator is one of them
visit where the steel was rolled, where the gun barrels were forged, where the propellers were founded, where the boilers were made.
My uncle worked at PNSY during WWII as a teenager with the electrician shop running cables on ships being built. He worked there for nine months between 1943-44 before being drafted. He died at age 56 from mesothelioma. He recalled asbestos floating in the air and falling like snow as the insulating shop guys installed insulation in compartments. I often think of Uncle Joe and all the yard workers across the US who were killed while working and never knew it... I served in the USN as an officer on frigates and I was always careful for myself and my guys about any asbestos... a sad legacy.
My grandfather was declared unfit for military service right after December 7th because he had a heart murmur as a result of rheumatic fever as a child. So instead he worked six twelve hour days a week for almost four years building first liberty ships and then Victory ships in the ship yards. The men and women who built the ships, planes, guns, bombs, and found the fuel, won the war every bit as surely as those that carried a gun. My stepfather was too young to join the Navy but the Merchant Marine were happy to take a big farm boy of 15 who lied about his age as a wiper, the lowest engineering position on a vessel. He sail the route from the Coast of Texas to Europe on a tanker, quite literally the most dangerous job of WW2 on a man for man basis. They know the odds of survival if you got torpedoed by a German U-boat were pretty damn slim but they did it. It was a tough war, it took an entire nation to win it, and there is a damned good reason they called them heroes and our greatest generation.
Today, 4/25/2024, the museum ship USS Kidd (DD-661) left her cradle on the bank of the Mississippi River, her home for the past 41 years in Baton Rouge, LA and headed downriver to Houma, LA to be dry docked for hull repairs and a new paint job. Let’s wish her a Bon Voyage and a safe return! I cant wait to see what she looks like when she returns and reopens for visitors.
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They paved paradise and put in a parking lot😂 I love this series during drydocking! Oh, so much enjoyment!!
From Joshua Chamberlain: "In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls."
My parents worked at the ordinance depot in Pocatello ID. I remember them telling me that the 16” barrels and other large barrels were made there. The buildings that are left have been turned into manufacturing facilities. I’ve also seen the rack that was used to test fire the guns prior to shipment. Thanks to mom and dad.
I grew up in the 70's and 80's in suburban Bucks County (Warrington) around 30 miles from the shipyard and remember a lot of awesome stories that were told to me and my friends by then retired naval shipyard workers from my neighborhood. They were all very proud to talk about what they did back in the 1930's and 40's. I would have loved to see BB-62 being born. If it wasn't for the fact that one of my Uncles who served in the Navy during the war and knew these guys and introduced us to them, I never would have met them.
with all the work you've done communicating and showing Her, i hope your hardhat becomes a museum exhibit
As a cold war Gunner's Mate who was active duty then all four of the Iowa Class Battleships were commissioned, I would recommend the gun range at Dahlgren Virginia where the designs for the 16' guns were tested and compared to the one unique 18' 47 cal built that I believe still exists to this day. It was great meeting you on April 13th early this month when I drove up from Florida to see the Big J in dry dock. Cheers, - Wright Sublette
Glad Ryan mentioned the USS Washington BB-56
We need more naval to cookie conversions on this channel. How many chocolate chip cookies could you bake with New Jerseys boilers?
"...where great deeds have been done, greatness remains." I have felt this way about a lot of places, like old mines and old factories, old schools and Churches, old ships and forts and places where ordinary people did great things and left behind ruins and foundations that, maybe, should have been preserved for younger generations to learn from.
Ryan I heard years ago that when the Philadelphia Naval Yard closed back in 1996 they kept the shop that made & might have performed repairs on big propellers. If they are still open would be a great place to tour. Hope that some locals can take you out for lunch at best in class South Philly Roast Pork & Cheese Steaks places. Hope you take a long well deserved relaxing vacation after the NJ gets settled back in Camden.
I’m so glad they let you into that area so that you could show us the slipways. It’s a very interesting sidenote to the history of the New Jersey and really compliments this whole process of the dry docking and her coming back home. Thank you so much for all your efforts and keep up the good work, friend.
You're one great Curator ! ! ! Great way to keep history alive ! ! !
I would like to see more video of what is under the slip ways. There looks like some cool equipment hidden there.
The machine shops where the 16" guns were made.