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A Tour of USS Enterprise With the Curator
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- Опубліковано 31 бер 2023
- On 1 April 1942, the 16 modified bombers and their crews that would make up the Doolittle Raid were loaded onto USS Hornet for their 18 April raid. Task Force 16, with Admiral Halsey in command from USS Enterprise, the focus of this tour, provided protection for Hornet on this mission.
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I know this is an April Fool's Joke, but it's not funny that CV-6 wasn't saved.
whole heartily agree
Certainly earned the right to a quiet retirement.
Her aft is on display and many people wanted to save her, but the navy wasn't having it.
@@verdant2215 Clearly they didn't read deeply enough into the memo that "saving her aft" should've included just a bit more than just the stern plate
@@verdant2215 The Navy offered the Enterprise to the New York in 1946 after her decommissioning as a memorial ship, but NY didn't want to spend the money, there were several attempts and raising the funds but nothing came of it, so In 1949 NY gave the ship back to the navy, after that there were a few more attempts at saving the Enterprise, which all fell short , the Navy held on to the the Enterprise in till July 1958.......The Navy tried, we as Us citizens failed to save her.
Somehow out of all of that, I agree with Ryan’s implication that the least realistic element is the massive federal and state funding
first crack in the composure appeared in that line
@@snupjeve Yep. 🤣
Hey, if you are going to dream, dream big!
@@klsc8510 If the axis won WW II, the Yamator would not be a museum ship, way to big, the cost are murder,
Helping to maintain our museum ships is hardly the worst or dumbest thing the Federal Government could use our tax dollars for.
I love the idea of a large vintage aircraft fleet and fully functional catapults with passenger rides.
While I would totally allow myself to get shot off of Enterprise in a vintage warbird, I can only imagine the liability for that.
He could barely even handle saying it haha
weird considering the old carriers never had catapults till the Korean War and after.
Plus the USS Enterprise would have to be steaming off shore at 20 some knots to get the planes off. That would be Cha CHING expensive ride!
🤣 Could you imagine? Two superman type launchers on the deck with various WWII carrier wings for the cars. Have a few real ones parked outside for view. Yea i can see and hear the joy.
Congrats to Ryan for keeping a straight face. Of course, over the years that he has been doing videos, he has the practice time in. Good job, too bad it never happened.
And of course the one thing that would break that straight face was the concept that a museum ship would have "massive federal funding." As a curator, he knows that would never happen.
@@theMoerster although in CV-6s case, she would deserve it. Christ, every single American today has contributed at least $300 to our fleet of F-22 Raptors. Why not THE Enterprise as well? 😁
Ohh I’ve personally seen how good his straight face is at Carrier Con
he kept a straight face last year when NJ was recommissioned as well so lol
Fate protects fools, children, and ships named Enterprise.
Great quote.
Except from the breakers torch.....
The Enterprise had two nick names. The Big E and The Lucky E
@@rickypalacios1554 Also the Grey Ghost and the Galloping Ghost. I believe the Ghost nicknames were due to the fact the Japanese repeatedly reported having sunk Enterprise, just to have her show up again. I've also read somewhere that some called her the Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast.
Well said.
The fact he went to Hornet with this idea in mind is hilarious and impressive. A man is determined not by talent or will but his ability to hold a grudge.
I can't wait (in this reality) for Drach to visit to HMS Warspite.
Or raise the HMS Hood to be re-assembled
The Grand Old Lady for one Wednesday special, then across to the other side of the harbour to have a look at HMS Iron Duke, just as this reality's Ryan would do a tour of USS Washington.
not fair - even on April 1st - I still weep that she was not saved
Thanks for video. April 1st, the only day of the year one can tour the magnificent USS Enterprise CV-6.
I hear they also do special tours every February 30th. Unfortunately, it's a long waiting list. RIP CV-6 😢
The Enterprise's nameplate still exists and is in the town where I grew up, River Vale, NJ. When I was a kid, it was mounted just beyond the centerfield fence of a little-league baseball field. You'd get a free hot dog if you hit a home run over it (I came close once!). There was once also a big hunk of scrap metal near the town's main intersection that my Dad said was part of the ship.
Funny that Ryan doesn't mention the Lost Curator who was accidentally sealed inside the Double-Bottom while doing inspection. They say that hammering can be heard late at night when only the present Curator tours Enterprise...
This ongoing offering being the only thing keeping the ship from the Breakers of course...
I heard that he is sealed inside of the lost machine shop, rumored to be aboard every Navy ship since the invention of steam power. 🤔
Visit the Prinz Eugen when you visit Hamburg Germany and the IJN Nagato at Yokosuka Japan. While you are in Camden visit the USS Pennsylvania across the river in Philadelphia. You can see the USS Nevada right in front of the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor, USS Ward is moored along side of her.. if you are in New York City stop by the old Brooklyn Navy Yard to see the USS Saratoga and battleship New York.
So many museum ships and so little time…
Can't wait for you to take a journey up to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to do a tour of HMCS _Bonaventure_ . As the world's last remaining _Majestic_ class aircraft carrier, she deserves to have the curator of such an illustrious CV do a video detailing her adventures! Like _Enterprise_ , she features a fully functional catapult, with regular rides in her Cold War vintage F2H Banshees.
Excellent razor blades too
Wish all of it was true. Good one Ryan
I wish we could have kept one from each class. All the ships represent the service and mission accomplishment of the men and women of the US Navy throughout our history
I wish we had Washington and Duke of York, imagine beinging able to compare a late treaty ere US battleship to a UK battleship. I know it would make Drach happy
@@Ebolson1019 The closest is when Drachinifel and Ryan get together. And Drachinifel coming to the US and reviewing our ships in person.
Q.E, Warpite, Prinz Eugen, Roma,
Man it’s such an honor to help with Enterprise’s restoration. Very very well done.
This channel is the most visited and decorated museum ship in the world.... What you are doing is above and beyond Ryan. You're awesome 🇺🇲
The Kittyhawk would have been a nice museum ship.
Many years ago I took care of the pipe organ at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. The man in charge of the chapel, which includes Robert E. Lee's crypt, was Robert Peniston, former captain of the New Jersey, who was in charge of putting her in mothballs in 1969. I am very happy to have a personal connection to this ship. I love this fantastic channel!
"Peniston". I think you might have made a typo.
@@harveywallbanger3123 Checking now...
@@harveywallbanger3123 I think it's right!
@@virginiaorganbuilder Wow. I mean... I just assumed it was a terrible autocorrect mistake! That may be the most unfortunate last name I've ever seen. I cannot imagine what boot camp must have been like for a guy named Peniston.
@@harveywallbanger3123 Hah! It's pronounced Penniston, so at least it doesn't sound funny!
You had me going for awhile there. My dad flew F6F off the Enterprise in '45 as a night aviator and he was on board when the elevator was hit. He was laying in his bunk the impact threw him to the floor, spalling from the attack started a fire in a near by locker. He tried to get to the deck but watched an armed Marine lock a water tight door. That spalling is still around.
The Enterprise was my carrier group when I was in the Navy
What ship were you on?
@@michaelsommers2356 Uss Stout DDG 55
@@robertdaniels9023 so your talking about USS Enterprise CVN-65
@@tianrongchen6916 yeah.
@@robertdaniels9023 Ah. That was after my time. I was on _Truxtun_ (CGN-35). She usually operated with _Enterprise,_ but when I was on board _Enterprise_ was in RCOH, so we operated with _Connie._
I went to hornet on my birthday, she was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen, I still have the pictures of it from a few years back. It’s so nice to go to a ship with an important part of history too her.
"Massive Federal Funding" LOL!
I’ve enjoyed visiting HMS Duke of York many times on the River Thames in London. It’s a shame that a WW2 British cruiser could not also have been saved.
And the best actor award for a comedy goes to Ryan Symanski.
One ship that truly should have been saved as a museum ship is the USS Enterprise. So historically significant. It is sad that we don't have her around today to visit.
Started the video, thought....am I in an alternate reality? 5 seconds later, my 11 year old over my shoulder- "Dad, it's April 1st".
This is hilarious watching Ryan try and keep a straight face during all of this! Thanks for the video guys!
I wondered what happened to Ryan, Libby and the rest of the museum staff after USS Old New Jersey was re-commisioned last April. Glad to hear Enterprise was hiring.
I don't do April Fools. You had me hooked, netted, and dragging behind on the stringer. Well done Ryan. Now I got to figure out which parts to unlearn. LUL
Good one Ryan. What a shame Enterprise wasn’t saved. She was a magnificent fighting ship, and the last of the Yorktown class.
Thank you for this hilarious video. I was lucky enough to have one of Admiral Doolittle's grandsons as my high-school American Literature teacher and his wife as my Jr. High Civics teacher. Gen. Doolittle's grandson was a glider pilot during the Vietnam War, and together he and his wife helped to engage thousands of students in becoming active and informed citizens. OCHS and Gardner Jr. High, Oregon City, OR, USA.
Damn it man, you're pulling on my heart strings here Ryan. God I really do wish this was a reality and she was preserved as she damn well should have been! Out of all the warship's post war, who's bright idea was it to scrap CV-6?! Inconceivable!!!!😭
I agree sadly it and ships like it werent viewed as historic objects in the late '40s but rather as ships that were worn out, broken down and outdated, no further use to the needs of the Navy going forward. Only years later when the events of WWII could be viewed from a historical perspective did ships begin to be saved. Being also a Civil War buff I look at how many battlefields are now covered by shopping malls and suburban homesites.
@@glennrishton5679 But then there is the USS Constitution...
@@gregorywright4918 Good Point. I dont recall the story on how it came to be preserved but I am thinking it lingered on until one fine day someone said What Ho! Let's preserve that symbol of our History. OK so I checked and it was active until 1881 then became a receiving ship not sure what exactly that means, receiving ship, but I was imagining a sort of transient barracks for sailors going to other ships not in port at the time. Then it was made a museum ship still in commission in 1907.....when it was a relic of the age of sail still existing in the age of steam.
@@glennrishton5679 Lookup Oliver Wendel Holmes (sp?) poem "Old Ironsides". And yes, a "receiving ship" is both a barracks and a duty station, often for new recruits to get a taste of living on a ship and having basic cleaning and training duties.
LOVED IT! The Big E definitely deserved preservation. BTW, Ryan, if you haven't had the chance to go up in a TBM, I highly recommend it. Thrill of a lifetime! (No April fooling.)
If you're gonna dream, dream big!
My grandfather began his naval career as a spotter for USS Louisville's (CA 28) seaplanes. Louisville was under way from Borneo to Pearl, when they found out about the Japanese attack. He would always cut the conversation short when it turned to what they saw when Louisville made it to Pearl.
USS Louisville was the first ship that my grandfather served aboard. It broke his heart when he found out that she had been sold for scrap.
Haha! Seriously though, this made me wish more than ever that they had saved the ship.
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I live near the USS Hornet and have been there countless times over the years. It’s in bad shape due to very low funding. On a positive note the people running it are coming up with different ideas to get visitors. I appreciate the work of each and every maritime museum helper. Thanks Ryan!
Wow! There has been a great deal of work done for Hornet since I was a scrape and paint volunteer in the late '80s/early '90s. Looks great! Thank you for showing her to us!
I feel bad for that one guy out there who actually thought that you were on the Enterprise
Genius how he chooses the positions that are very convincing to resemble the USS Enterprise
I thought you were going to continue the video until you got to announce that the Navy had transferred CVN-65 to you guys and that it was going to be berthed right next to CV-6!
p.s. I loved the "operational elevators and catapults" and the "massive federal funding" you were getting!😂
The next generation of aircraft carriers will include USS Enterprise CVN-80. Some of the steel in her construction will come from CVN-65, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. She will also include four portholes from CV-6. I became fascinated with her after the story of her appeared in the February 1965 edition of National Geographic. Scheduled to be launched in November 2025 and delivered in March 2028. What a day that will be!
There shall always be an Enterprise in active duty.
It's the law.
Doah! Reminds me of the time Big E CV6 and Hornet CV8 raced to the anchorage at Ulithi to get refueled first and to replenish their liquor stocks. Hornet was slightly ahead doing 35 knots, but had the terrible luck of running over I-97, a Japanese fleet submarine at periscope depth. They both sank and the Navy had to come up with a better sounding cover story. As a result, liquor was permanently banned.
USS Enterprise is probably the only thing that can singularly represent the whole war in the Pacific. Her scrapping is a tragedy.
APRIL 1ST THANK YOU RYAN ,, FOR THIS GREAT STORY OF THIS GREAT SHIP AND PLANES.. RIP,.. GUYS..
Happy April Fools to you as well, Ryan and folks of Horny Maru and NJ, this put a massive smile on my face while hurting my heart at the same time.
I loved how you were able to keep a mostly straight face until nearing the ending quarter of the video, Ryan, great job at keeping the impression going!
I say next year, you go bigger and better with a full blown video about why the Black Pearl could take on (and beat) Bismarck in a one-on-one duel to the death! (Obviously on April Fool’s because that would be a fight that’s a draw through and through)
That was just cruel...if any ship should have been turned into a museum, CV-6 is definitely the one. Would have been incredible to be able to walk the deck and see everything that she saw as the only Carrier to serve from Pearl Harbor all the way through the Japanese Surrender 😪😪😪
Brings to mind HMS Hoods service in the Falklands war, after a long overdue refit in 1942 (following damage from Japanese torpedo bombers) caused her to miss all but the very end of the pacific war and decades of neglect and threats to scrap her. Her rear turrets replaced with space for anti shipping missiles and platforms for sea harriers. So she and HMCS Vanguard (sold to Canada in the 70s during the Quebec revolutionary war and occupation) are the remaining ww2 British capital ships.
"This particular Avenger can even be shot off of the plane's (sic)... catapult... with visitor's on board... paying to ride".....says Ryan @5:15 while both choking on the line and choking down a smile... and beginning to loose his April Fool's shit. 🙂🤣😂 Great prank !!
My grandfather Julian Stanley Pieja was radioman 1st class on the Enterprise. Very proud Grandson here!!
Awesome April Fool's Attempt. You kept a great poker face throughout. That would be such an amazing museum!
Was hoping to see BB-62 compared to NCC-1975, maybe next year 😉
It's a real tragedy that the Enterprize wasn't preserved. One of the most historic and significant ships of WWII.
There are some very good artifacts from CV-6 in Pensacola at their Naval Air Museum... her helm, binnacle, engine telegraph and several other bits and pieces... and it's free to tour
You almost had me when you were talking about the support and everything. I served on board USS Enterprise CVN 65, which has been retired. I think the Enterprise from World War II should have been turned into Museum directly after decommissioning.
Thank you sir!! Good One. USS Enterprise to visit would be awesome!
A very enterprising video. Clever and well done!
A ship I think would've been great to have seen turned into a museum ship is HMS Warspite. While I'm not a brit myself, the history and service life definitely made her worthy in my mind. I suppose in an ideal world, we wouldn't have had to keep building new warships, and could've just preserved everything after the second world war.
Great video Ryan!
Nicely timed. I'm going through Battle 360 right now.
A wonderful fantasy...after visiting Enterprise I would fly to the UK to visit Warspite, Warrior and Victory.
Yep an April Fools Day video as CV-6 Enterprise was scrapped unless this isn't
This is the new one that was just decommisioned, CVN 65!
Right even though the summary and title card are completely misleading
How has BNJ been able to get aboard her?
Crime of all museum ships that cv6 was scrapped
It's a shame that we can't take this tour.
it's a shame I can't strap in for that ride! Better apply for that Federal grant money to restore the catapults 😅
Nice job Ryan and crew.
dude i was looking at all those shots, and the background when you were topside and thinking " what the actual fuck this looks just like the hornet..."
You got me good.
Great video! I wish she was preserved as a functioning musuem ship with working catapults and planes. That would be amazing.
Thank you Ryan, i was looking forward to my vintage aircraft ride there.
Even though I knew the Enterprise was not moored on the Delaware you sold it so well I was believing it ! Good job!
Where's the transporter bay?
Clever idea, and well done. Nice tribute.
Love your use of the HORNET!
Nice bit of alternate history here. Good to see that the staff keeping HMUCS Enterprise the finest museum ship in the United Colonies has a sense of humour. However, as good as the Enterprise is, I think that the best museum ship in the Empire is the battlecruiser HMIS Leinster, largely because her service in all three World Wars lets her cover the widest range of military history of all of the many museum ships paying homage to Britannia ruling the waves.
Great April 1st video.
This morning I was thinking about funny April Fools things and I came up with getting Ryan a new belt. Then he started talking about the Enterprise and sucked me in with his innocent face and good yarn spinning.
I like to see you do a tour of the original USS Massachusetts (BB-2) currently located in Florida. It would be cool to touch the deck of the oldest American battleship that is still in the water.
I want to live in a world where Enterprise was preserved. The fact that she wasn't is a travesty.
This is the most educational April fools joke I have ever seen.
This will be cool
In all seriousness, didn’t New Jersey serve along side both Enterprises?
The British Battleship Warspite is another that should have been preserved.
Thanks for the alternate April Fools day video Ryan! I think the North Carolina class battleship Washington should have been preserved as she was the only U.S. battleship to sink an enemy battleship in a gunnery duel in W.W. # 2. The state of Washington could have hosted her as they have a large coastline and drydocks for maintenance.
USS North Carolina is available for your perusal in Wilmington NC :)
@@scottcooper4391 Thanks for your comment. I visited the North Carolina in April of 1991 just before her 50th Anniversary of her commissioning. My point being in answer to Ryan's question as to what additional ship I thought should have been preserved as a museum ship.
This makes me imagine an alternate universe where Enterprise was saved and Ryan ended up as her curator.
Well done!
Will always say that an Alaska class and a Baltimore class cruiser should have been saved as museums
An alternate history I could get behind
Epic, well played.
Ok ok, you had me going for a minute there.
Can't believe you kept it together till the end though, good acting.
You had me at the title…I HAD to watch to see what was up. I KNOW Ryan would never make such an egregious mistake. 😂😂😂
The USS Oregon BB3 was saved and memorialized as a museum ship in Portland, OR., but was pulled from her moorings, towed down the Columbia River and stripped down to her hull as an “ammunition barge” during WWII, then sold to the breakers in… Japan. As an 1895 pre-dreadnaught, Spanish-American War vet with the epic Cape Horn traverse to the Caribbean Sea battle and defeat of the Spanish fleet, and the impetus to building the Panama Canal; I vote the Oregon as the most egregious scrapping ever.
Ah, if only to dream. Nicely done
I suddenly have an idea for the insidiest of inside joke merch: a shirt with the fictional Aircraft Carrier Enterprise logo in the style of the Battleship New Jersey shirts
Love it! Happy day to you too! 🙂
Ha. This made me smile heaps. Thanks for making it :)
Great spoof, Ryan.
BRAVO!!! Well Done Ryan! The only thing better would have been for Ryan to be asleep at his office on the Big J with a blur fade to this video.
As an USAF veteran, I wish much more could have been saved for aircraft. We are so lucky that the B-17 Memphis Belle just barely avoided being scrapped. So many WWII aircraft should have been saved. The B-24 "Dragon and his Tale". One of Major Bong's P-38s. So many captured German, Italian, and Japanese aircraft should have been saved. After WWII, we should have saved at least 1 of each type from Germany. After inspecting them, send them to what is now Davis-Monthan and tell the CO to park 'em in the back 40,000. Someday, we will have a museum for them.
Even after WWII, planes like the B-32, XB-35, YB-49 and more should have been saved.
Like the CV-6 Enterprise, history lost!
Thanks For the info I wasnt aware of a lot what you said. My great uncle served aboard CV6 for the whole war and I have a feeling now he probably misremembered a few things. He did get a lot of what you said correct. Thanks for the Video and hopefully one day you can do another video. Maybe one day we can visit the CV6 museum ship in the great state of Enterprise but I dont know if thats on the east or the west coast.
The sta of Enterprise is actually on the central coast.
I wish it was kept for this, Ryan would be great incharge of boat 🎉
if it wasn't April fools day I would believe the uss enterprise was still around
I am really sad now :(
Ya got me😂 I was thinking "this guy is crazy ". Very sad The Big E wasn’t saved. So much history.
You had me web searching as I watched this video.
very welll done, sir.
Good one ryan. I am currently in san francisco airport catch a 1030 flight ti philly to see the nj and intrepid again. Will be in that area until the 10th, hope to get to meet you. I love ur videos