How crews at the Philadelphia Navy Yard are restoring the Battleship New Jersey
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- CBS News Philadelphia got a first-hand look at the important work being done while the Battleship New Jersey, America's most decorated battleship, is dry-docked at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
I remember our sub pulling into Sasebo, Japan just before the New Jersey. What an entrance she made. Kudos to Ryan Semansky for his great UA-cam channel on the great battleship.
I served on Battleship New Jersey 1985-1987 maintaining the 5” gunnery Fire Control System. The Mark 1 Able analog computer. A huge device that was controlled by five Fire Control technicians during Naval Gunfire Support shore bombardment.
she still shines bright even today.
If you experienced firing of the guns, please tell us what it was like.
you should head over to it someday, Ryan and the museum team work to preserve the memory of those who served on Big J by taking their testimony.
Now THAT'S a SHIP.
lucky the 1980s cold war military was so cool especially the BBs
Such an iconic ship!!! A marvel of American ship building!!
@scotttild No, not billions and no, not restoring. Their budget is $10 million to perform long over due preventive maintenance on the hull. I believe half the funding came from the state of New Jersey and the rest came from donations both large and small. The ship is now a museum and it takes lots of willing volunteers and many generous donors to keep her floating.
Internationally at that. Proud to have contributed to this piece of history.
Always on watch ! Vfa-137
Awesome!
Ryan!!!
How do they paint the bottom of the hull that's covered by the blocks holding up the ship?
They refloat it and move it a few feet then lift it again to paint the bare spots.
An excellent question and one that Mr. Ryan says he gets very often.
I drove past the New Jersey for years when it was docked in Bremerton.
Station in Philly when the USS Constellation (CV-64) was in SLEP program. Did a retirement on the Missouri there.
This ship is being restored for what it was built for..not a museum piece..
USA has Battleship Initiative.
I worked at that shipyard about 3 years ago good management
Here’s a battle ship that represents American 🇺🇸 Pride and simple of Freedom. God Bless America 🇺🇸
I wonder how they work on the sections of hull underneath the supports holding it up in the drydock
They refloat it, move it a few feet then lift it again and paint the bare spots.
The USS Boxer hasn't been to sea since 2019. An active duty ship delays, problems and cost hikes.....do we have our priorities straight?
Considering there hasn't been a relevant amphibious assault since the 50's, it's probably not a real high priority
Lots of Polish surnames in that dock :)
Wait until they recommission it for Navy Active Duty again!
Let's update that puppy and get it back out to sea!
So it can get sunk by a modern antiship missile?
😎🤔🤔🤔That is a lot of wooden scuffling! (0:51) Drop test will tell the side story...
The New Jersey reminds of the B-52s. She is still restorable after all these year. talk about gettin your moneys worth...
We should be concentrating on modern naval ships.
Restoring? Bottom paint and inspection.
I thought first it would be modernized and recommissioned for active duty, but it is just for corrosion maintenance.
You thought they were going to just pull off those big 16-inch guns and put missiles in there??
@@rogerwilco5918 Why not? they did it in the past, they still have more than 20,000 artillery shells and have installed missiles and other modern stuff.
@MILENEO3 you know, we already have a design for ships to accommodate modern weapons, right?
Would it make more sense to you to just build a new ship, rather than retrofit one from World War II?
With unmanned drones, not only are aircraft carries obsolete but anything large floating on water is too.
you do realize we can shoot down drones just like other A/C...... never mind you one of hte anti's
B.S.
Nonsense. You have to get close enough for that.
Sad they rescue a battleship but not the SS United States cruise ship 🛳️ in dry dock in Philadelphia..!!!
Id love to see the feminists "equality" individuals to restore/work on this ship like men.
Look, it’s Ryan Semanski from the battleship New Jersey museum and Memorial!🙂
Seeing him on camera and not hearing him say that is so freaking weird
They cut him so bad lol
I’m a subscriber to the UA-cam channel on the New Jersey. Every episode is great and informative! Ryan and the others working there make it great! Thank you guys very much!
I agree. Ryan is an amazing representative of the New Jersey
I am so happy that New Jersey is being restored. Greetings from Texas!
Ryan!🤙
A living legend 😊
I went on Board the New Jersey in long Beach CA, just before she was sent to Vietnam, I'll never forget that. Those 16 inch Rifles are impressive. Shoot a 2000 lb shell 25 miles... I'm glad to see that a number of Battlewagons are still around and not being sold for scrap...thanks for the positive news story for once.
Thanks for your service sir
The battleship new Jersey Museum and Memorial receives operating support from the new jersey department of state, as well as a number of businesses and private individuals like us. They really appreciate the support, there is a link to the channel somewhere idk this is youtube a suggestion will probably pop up after watching this video.
Today is April 20.
I’m 1 week out from taking the dry dock tour!!!!
I'll be there next Sunday. Can't wait to take the tour.
Just did the tour on Saturday (4/20), nothing short of amazing!
No Strong independent feminists were present during the maintenance. Except this reporter, ofcourse.
Great job Ryan! Ryan S has been posting fascinating insights on the battleship NJ channel
She made a port call in Tacoma, WA in the late 1960's, I think she was returning from Vietnam. My Dad took me on a tour. I was about 7 years old.
Very happy that this beauty gets preserved
10M$ is an insignificant and irrelevant prices to pay to preserve history and teach it first-hand with a precious artifact and monument
Just a 10th of the price to put up. If I could repair my truck 80 years from now for $4,000 I’d say thats pretty good.
That’s one old battle wagon I haven’t visited yet I hope to one day 👍🇺🇸
All 4 Iowa's are museum ships.
OLD!
The biggest of her class! Shipyard welders from South Jersey made her a little longer than her 3 sisters!!
Great to see history preserved, instead of cancelled by college students
What do college students have to do with canceling history??
@@rogerwilco5918 , They destroy statues, without concern for history.
@@DavidVelleux Are you referring to the Confederate monuments to treason and slavery?
Good they're giving people jobs again
Thank God, a Journalist that knows a unit of measurement other than pounds or elephants.
The only country that uses pounds is the one that has their flag on the moon.
Getting her ready for filming of Battleship 2 !
My father was a Sailor on a nearby ship in early 1943 when the New Jersey Fired all Nine Main Guns during her Shakedown Cruise. He said it was an Amazing Display of Sight and Sound.
U Know really think , There getting her back to sail. She will be needed for these pirates an such sticking there noses out, wait to they just see this Behemoth.😮😮😮😢
Hats off to you yanks looking after your history.
Wish i could go see the Ship in Drydock but i live to far away....
Cool I always remember the battleship Missouri the Japanese surrendered on
Will it be fully operational? We need Fully OPs!
Ryan is the real MVP in this dry docking. dude has cranked out a video every single day since she's been there.
Iconic for the entire Philadelphia area 🙂
Honestly also reminds me of ‘The Space battleship Yamato’ anime series (which got an updated remake several years ago ‘2199’ which is really good 😊 )
All 4 of them should be re-commissioned
The level of stupid in these comments is amazing. Why do some folks think these old museum ships are still owned by the federal government?
I'm surprised the media isn't blaming Trump for something but they will
Save em, don’t scrap em! ⚓️🫡🇺🇸
go navy
We might need that ship soon. I'm glad its on our side
Love how you present things, and explain it well. I usually listen on shortwave radio. WWCR.
wow this is fantastic this maestic ww2 battleship to be saved
We have to save our history good job :)
STILL hoping the US Navy uses this opportunity with her already in drydock to modernize and reactivate her.....
It'll never happen. This ship is incredibly outdated. There is absolutely no use for this as modern ships now launch missiles from up to hundreds of miles away. I may be wrong but i think the range for the battleship is around just 26 miles for the big guns.
@@Luke-ed1gp the upgrades in the 80's introduced cruise missiles to the battleship's arsenal..... that said just let me have my dreams! :P
That is never going to happen. It would take easily 2+ years in dry dock and around $2 BILLION. Waste of time and money for a ship no longer appropriate or survivable
@@cruisinguy6024 stop curb stomping my dreams!!! damn you people! :P
Surely if we can send 60 Billion dollars to Ukraine, we could carve out a few bucks for the New Jersey 🤔
Go big NJ!
HUGE, Huge problem. The 'current" Navy of today is unaware that the Navy (years ago) accidentally sold the 16-inch barrel liners thinking they were just piping. You can shoot only so many rounds through those barrels before the 16 inch barrel liners need to be swutched out for new ones.
Wish I could see and experience this 😪
If USA could make new battleships from scratch I don’t see restoration will a problem it’s just a piece of cake for theme 🇺🇸👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
Can you imagine a ship like this? Shooting it’s huge guns at A terrorist haven again. The nice thing is the Navy has these ships in such an order they could be reactivated if needed. It’ll just take time.
- "the Navy has these ships in such an order they could be reactivated if needed."
No, they REALLY don't. That claim is firmly in "things people who don't really know what they're talking about like to repeat" territory.
@@zackakai5173 you know know the museum has it in their contract that the navy can take over the ship whenever, You also know that the procedures for mothballing it require it be kept in good condition for reuse?
@@firedogman2280 you do know that amount of money it would take to get a ship like the USS New Jersey battle worthy again wold be so great that it would make more sense to build a whole new generation of battleships from scratch
Well done vid. I subscribe to the curator's channel.
I took my tour last Sunday. Incredible experience. I have been following "The Big J" since I first saw her at the Navy Yard 58 years ago.
The Iowa class BB's should be brought back to service, USN's missile cruisers cannot provide that kind of firepower they posses and one shell does not cost millions.
It's been admitted by shipyards that Ships like this could not be reproduced these days because many of the factories which made parts like the 16" guns no longer exit.
Awesome stuff.. But dont waste money on restoration when our Naval fleet is a record lows. If you're going to invest in the Battle Ship, update it with weapon/propulsion systems of today.
1982 I was in Long Beach naval shipyard. I was at Pier 6 while Ronald Reagan recommissioned the BB 62. I'm glad know that is okay
Bring her back into service!
The most decorated ship in world history
Enterprise has more. She is the 2nd most.
@@MarksChannel52 The CV-6 Enterprise, just to avoid any confusion some might have.
There is a ship currently on the Great Lakes - the Lee A. Tregurtha - that was a transport during World War II and has 2 battle stars on her port side pilothouse.
they need to modernize it with VLS, and other modern weaponry, along with the other iowa class battleships to reactivate to face off against China.
Wonderful video!!❤️❤️❤️
Manufacturing jobs = Right to Work legislation + Universal tariff rates.
You gotta love her standing under the ship wearing a tank top but the required hard hat……for safety……
Rumors flying she is getting ready for deployment in the pacific, China you know
I wonder if the 16 inch guns could utilize rocket assisted projectile rounds to extend theirs range if the New Jersey was ever reactivated? I doubt that will ever happen due to cost but it would be awesome to see.
Yeah, they could be sabot shells.
I’ve read that there was a 11 inch GPS guided round that was under development when the Cold War ended. Using Sabots to fit the 16 inch guns it could’ve had a range over 100 miles. Probably didn’t get off the drawing board though or there might be more info about it.
The ship has cruise missile launchers for longer range.
Amazing love and respect to all workers
Battleship are back hooyahjh!!!!
Just in case aliens come
Perhaps the New Jersey and other mothballed ships should return to service to fill the large gap between the number of ships being decommissioned in coming years and the Navy’s goal of maintaining a surface fleet of 381 ships. It could be a great deterrent in the Pacific theater.
We don't need cannon fodder on the modern battlefield.
Do you know what the range of an anti-ship missile is? Way more than the 27 mile range of those big guns
It has been suggested and rejected, based upon the logistics of just getting enough fuel into her. That's a truck that gets 5mpg, compared to modern destroyers that get 12mpg. She would need to travel with two oilers - just for her alone.
Other concerns are the simple age and wear on the machinery itself. In preservation, it can last a long time, but these ships were buit with a short life span in mind, and to justwin a war.
Re-tooling does not even exists anymore, and no arsenal builds the 16" shells, leaving the originals from the 1950's which can be unstable.
Even if they removed the big guns and turrets, as well as all below deck suypporting structure, and replaceed all that with 300+ vertical launch tubes, the engines and related gear are all still very old.
While it is certainly fast enough to keep up with the fleet, repairs would be complicated and no replacement parts exist.
Making it into an Arsenal Ship by removing the turrets and most of the super structure would be awesome, but modern subs are more effective at that, and theyare already paid for as wellas being almost impossible to find and hit.
@@Lollygagger-k4p New Jersey's fuel capacity is approx. 2.3 MILLION gallons. That would last for four days at 33 knots, or over a month at 15-16 knots. In WW2, other than protecting the carriers, the other big job of the four Iowa-class battleships was to serve as a "gas station" for the dozens of destroyers accompanying the Pacific battle fleets. For the '80s deployments, this was still true--part of the recommissioning of the Iowas was conversion from bunker-C to marine distillate, what the rest of the fleet was using at the time. Not that I'm saying that New Jersey could or should come back, I'm just saying that your fuel argument is not a valid point.
@@SomeRandomHuman717 Fair enough. I was just going on what I read out there in public spaces. Fuel consumption was among the several anti-arguments.
I wonder if they will use it again ...
Getting her ready for battle
Some of those blocks are Styrofoam.
Whole Lotta shaking 🫨 going on. Nervous dictators when they dig out this thing.
What is the purpose of bringing it back to life? Is it due to WW3?
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The Big Stick will sail once more i love it!!!!...she is a mitty ship, she is awesome to be fitted with new weapons and missiles with lasers will be nasty mean ship if she must go into harms way.
It is a planned maintenance period, they are not "restoring" the ship.
Isn't the Jersey the same battleship that laid waste to Beruit Lebanon right after the US Marine barracks was bombed and collapsed to the ground killing over two hundred marines? (And, the size of that dry-dock is insane)
Yes.
But a modern "Battleship" could have done it from way further away with tomahawk missiles
What a beast!
Look if you get Ryan semanski stop the narration and just let the man talk for an hour, ok
Look at the miles of teak on that deck! WOW!
Yes ..and pitty the deck apes who had to holy stone her
🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
That Battleship might be Old..but i guarantee, anyone that has ever been on the receiving end of those 16 inch guns, wouldn't want to go thru that again.
That all depends.. in a modern aircraft carrier you'll never see the rounds impact before the adversary is at the bottom of the sea
Good to see the New Jersey at sea again