An old friend of mine transferred to the New Jersey as it was going on its world cruise after it was recommissioned in 1982. Half way around the world they got tasked with shelling Beirut. My friend went crazy and was medically evacuated and eventually medically retired from the Navy. The constant firing of the 16” guns drove him mad. I’ve never been inside one of those ships when the 16” guns go off, but I bet that you can feel them go off throughout the ship.
Ryan, always great... 1" of steel will create 40"s of rust..... something that amazes me.....as a steel fabricator and artist Cheers from Florida, Paul
Ryan, you are doing important work in preserving USS New Jersey. I hope ypu understand how valuable your work is and I hope that you are proud of yourself and what you do.
A good solution for tile over metal, so you don't get water ingress, would be to mix the coat below the tiles with sodium silicate (water glass) and then coat that layer with pure sodium silicate. It forms a near impenetrable barrier against water ingress.
@@TheSteelArmadillo I'll give them the rest of the roll, and drop it off. Just to get it out of my shed lol. By my mistake I have about 300 sq ft leftover. Measure twice indeed.
I noticed in your radio room there are banks of the manual dial HF radios in the racks. These are the same radios that were/are in the Minuteman Launch Control Centers, scattered around Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. At the Warren AFB Museum, they have one opened and you can turn the dials and see the gears and chains turn the tuning components.
I know on my last ship they got rid of the tile, they used a rubber base and 2 part epoxy with the paint chips and a top coat, very easy to take care of, similar to the garage concrete coating people use
That radio gear was a trip down memory lane for this former ET2. I mainly worked on big transmitters and their ancillaries but I recognized quite a bit.
I'm surprised you're not taking this opportunity to armor the officer's head. Would make a great story that even the head is armored on a battleship! Just kidding! Thanks for the videos! Looking forward to seeing and learning about New Jersey's dry docking.
HY-80 is good steel for resisting deformation, which is why they use it to make subs. It would be good against blast/pressure but not great against splinter penetration. Does that tell us anything about what sort of attacks they were anticipating in the 80s?
With no real authority whatsoever other than the most amateur of understandings of history, I’d say that tells me that they were anticipating concussive attacks rather than direct attacks. In other words they figured the ship was more likely to be bombed than to be shelled. And given the nature of the 80’s I’m guessing it would be nuclear. And a big part of a nuke’s energy is in the blast wave. But that’s a shockwave hitting the whole ship, not a piece of exploding steel punching into your ship then exploding. Basically the difference between being punched and being stabbed.
2:53 - note the coils under the teletypewriter to isolate it from shock and vibration. Being on top of safes like that makes me think it is somehow incolved in sending coded messages somewhere.
The typewriter I think is most likely for receiving a emergency action message and the safes would have been for the codes related to the nuclear cruise missiles that the ship was equipped for.
I'm really surprised that mosaic tile is used on a ship, considering the vibrations from machinery and guns, not to mention the shocks going through the ship when struck by enemy shells.
@@rogerstlaurent8704 It didnt. He said the rot is AFT of frame 123. So the rot was just regular compartment metal roof, not the armored roof of communications, which is forward of frame 123.
I was an electronics tech in the 00s, I actually recognize a lot of that gear in radio central. Could probably still work on it too if I brushed up a bit.
The deck around the Harpoon and Tomahawk Launchers! Basically to protect the ship from the missile exhaust blast! I've also seen where they used different amount of leveling compound in the heads, galley, and mess decks to direct any water/spills towards the drains in the deck....
Using a leveling compound to pitch a room towards the drain is common practice in any bathroom that has a tile shower. I've built a few over the years.
Some day can you do a video on battle lanterns? The old WW II steel ones, the later yellow plastic ones. Some automatic, some manual. How many battle lanterns on your ship? Do you still keep them functioning?
If yall are going to keep using the shower, was there any water proofing done under the leveling compound? That compound looks porous like it would hold water and rust out the steel.
Will you use "historical accurate" tiles to retile the room or will you have to use newer tiles/tiles of a a noticeable newer design? I decided to use quotation marks because i have a hard time writing about historical accurate tiles without it either sounding very pedantic or hilarous.
What are you talking about, a smart navy wouldn't have even built the IOWAs. Battleships were useless by the time they were laid down, u need to start thinking bigger and more critically. Take off the MURCA glasses
@@Knight6831 and none of those were useful as strategic assets. How many of those were sunk in gun combat? Just the 2 ancient ww1 ships. And they were on a suicide mission and would’ve been sunk by DD torps even if there were no BBS there. Battleships were useless in the pacific strategically except as monitors. if you don’t understand that then please study the history of the war and actually pay attention this time.
@@rohanthandi4903 That's with 20/20 hindsight, and what WW2 in the Pacific ultimately showed. However, that's not what was known be hard fact before WW2 or even in the first years of WW2. Bismarck was only sunk in May 1941. By battleships. With little input by (carrier) aviation. So the BB was still very much a must-have for the US Navy back when the Iowa's were built. The USN was forced to fight the war in the Pacific on Japan's terms, with carriers, as these were essentially most of what they had left in operational condition after the devastation at Pearl Harbour. Today, a battleship starts making sense again, as very few countries have the capability to sink one, and can't create that capability overnight. A battleship would simply shrug off what put Sheffield, Coventry, Glamorgan, Stark, Samuel B Roberts, Cole, Moskva, or Olenegorskiy Gornyak ... out of action or on the bottom of the sea.
@@rohanthandi4903 The Battle off Samar also shows you're wrong. A fleet of 6 CVE with 160+ aircraft caught unaware couldn't sink any of the Japanese BBs. Adding in Taffy 2 further south, that's 300+ aircraft. Nor could the DD/DDEs sink a BB, however valiantly they fought them off.
I’m curious what if any was their use of asbestos for the ship’s interior. A lot of old flooring compounds contain asbestos and I’d imagine its use was widespread for ships.
That’s really interesting that they 1) did that and 2) didn’t update the blueprints to show it. Are you sure of the timeframe? Since I’ve never been on a battleship before, I don’t know where any of those rooms are, or why the navy would have to move it and change the armor like that. And what are you going to put back down on the floor? You probably can’t reuse the tile. What was in that head originally in WWII?
It depends on the composition. The New Jersey was mostly armored STS for her WWII era stuff. It had SOME chromium in it. Not enough to be stainless, but it would resist corrosion more than common steels. No idea what was used in the 80s, it may well have been more STS, or something more modern, or even just RHA.
It's complicated is the answer. Lots of dissimilar metal corrosion going on and galvanic corrosion. That's why the ship has passive and active (impressed current) corrosion suppression systems
@@rogerstlaurent8704 It didn't, the armor's fine. The armored roof stops where that line in the tile was, and it's just structural steel plate from there on under the shower.
@@BlackEpyon agreed. When Ryan had talked about New Jersey being drydocked, I thought it was important to mention. I can empathize. I used to help restore vintage aircraft when I was younger. I can just imagine working with an 80+ year old warship can feel like.
I just realized that with modern day laser or water jet cutting machines a damage control group could do a pretty good job patching up damage with cad files and a metal stock supply. Cut it up roughly and then tack weld.
I don't know if that's really needed. A guy with an acetylene torch could cut metal to a rough shape reasonably well and it doesn't require the ship to have power to work. A waterjet cutter takes forever and lasers require a lot of space.
@@klsc8510 Probably that line of rust under peeled paint in the far wall of the shower booth. It's just old, it's compromised and leaked. Trapped water == rust. Simple as that.
400Hz equipment is smaller, lighter and generally less expensive (except for needing to be MIL-Spec). Add up all the generators, motors and transformers on a ship and it makes for huge space and weight savings.
400 Hz is advantageous because it allows transformers in equipment to be a small fraction of the size and weight of 60 Hz transformers. That is probably a much bigger deal on aircraft, but still, saving weight on a ship is not bad. The down side to 400 Hz is that there is more power loss in cabling, but on a battleship that is probably less than 1000 feet of cable so not too much loss. I’m not familiar with the the missiles and control system discussed here, but if it had multiple use for land mobile or aircraft deployment then making them all 400 Hz power was probably a matter of expediency of manufacturing and having interchangeable parts for depot maintenance.
The optical equipment has to interface with fire control. Fire control uses a lot of synchro's and servos. Running the synchro's and servos on 400 hz means the amount of iron for cores can be reduced so the devices are much smaller. Smaller devices means you can put more devices in the same space, and the devices will run cooler as well, and naturally have greater angular precision.
The frequency of AC electricity is determined by how many field changes the generator goes through -- essentially how fast it spins. A smaller generator spinning faster can generate the same power for less weight than a 60Hz plant, or a more power for less weight and size. Since airplanes and ships have high speed turbines for their propulsion anyways, 400Hz makes more sense for specialized high powered equipment like radar and radio.
Why use a premium surface like mosaic tile for a military battleship? I would think an epoxy coating would be a better choice and was available by 1968.
Because when it was built it wasn’t considered “premium “, but standard bathroom fixturing. And it may be less “mosaic” than whatever colors they had on hand. Today we’d put an epoxy coating UNDER the tile, but that isn’t a standard option even today (there are other water barriers that ARE standard).
Where did the water that rusted through 1"" armor plate come from? It must be salt water to be able to rust a hole in the armor, or am i missing something here/
The problem with permanent drydocking a ship is the hull ends up being distorting and deteriorating. This is due to the hull not being supported by the water pressure caused by displacement. Some museum ships have used inventive ways to replicate that pressure but they tend to be smaller wooden ships.
All that demolished tile and wetbed from this project were in the dumpster when I went past it on Thursday, who wants some Gen-U-Wine nasty head tile from BNJ? Will sell for cheep. 🤣
As a former radioman, I approve of armoring radio central.
Ah Michael. Dry very dry. As a (sorta) rebuttal, I am not a former radioman, but I also approve of armored radio rooms.
hahaha I bet 😂. I would too commo.
Just Remember No Armour Plating was Harmed in this video LOL
@@rogerstlaurent8704Nice one Roger. Didn't see that coming!
😂😂
I find a rotten bathroom floor & curse about all the hard work ahead. Ryan jumps for joy at the opportunity to explore. 🤔
So, in other words, Ryan had a leak in the officer's head! :)
An old friend of mine transferred to the New Jersey as it was going on its world cruise after it was recommissioned in 1982. Half way around the world they got tasked with shelling Beirut. My friend went crazy and was medically evacuated and eventually medically retired from the Navy. The constant firing of the 16” guns drove him mad. I’ve never been inside one of those ships when the 16” guns go off, but I bet that you can feel them go off throughout the ship.
Love the camera pan to the label @ 00:32
Ryan, always great... 1" of steel will create 40"s of rust.....
something that amazes me.....as a steel fabricator and artist
Cheers from Florida, Paul
Ryan, you are doing important work in preserving USS New Jersey. I hope ypu understand how valuable your work is and I hope that you are proud of yourself and what you do.
A good solution for tile over metal, so you don't get water ingress, would be to mix the coat below the tiles with sodium silicate (water glass) and then coat that layer with pure sodium silicate. It forms a near impenetrable barrier against water ingress.
That's what was under the tiles already. It wasn't entirely successful.
Laticrete is the product to use for this application.
Kerdi membrane like I just put in under our new tiles.
@@m1t2a1 Kerdi is a good product. Just pricy for a non-profit.
@@TheSteelArmadillo I'll give them the rest of the roll, and drop it off. Just to get it out of my shed lol. By my mistake I have about 300 sq ft leftover. Measure twice indeed.
Holes? Welp, add that to the dry dock list 😛
(24 hours later and I’m still ecstatic at that news!)
I would like to learn about the expansion joints.
I noticed in your radio room there are banks of the manual dial HF radios in the racks. These are the same radios that were/are in the Minuteman Launch Control Centers, scattered around Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska and Colorado. At the Warren AFB Museum, they have one opened and you can turn the dials and see the gears and chains turn the tuning components.
Those are r-1051 HF recei ers. They were used everywhere.
We had the same things in Titan II sites.
I know on my last ship they got rid of the tile, they used a rubber base and 2 part epoxy with the paint chips and a top coat, very easy to take care of, similar to the garage concrete coating people use
It is called PRC, which is actually a trademarked name but is used as a general term for the epoxy coating used on the decks.
@Dave-in-MD yes sir, thank you for reminding me, they used to bring on a shot blaster and take it down to the steel
And it stinks
Gotta be better than that title and leveling compound holding water and rusting out the floor.
@bobbygetsbanned6049 it was, it would last 3 years and they would renew the stuff
That's one happy Ryan Szmanski
HI RYAN,, SO SAD TO SEE THIS HAPPENING,, DRY DOCK IS VERY NEEDED ...
When a bathroom renovation involves welding it's a good day.
That radio gear was a trip down memory lane for this former ET2. I mainly worked on big transmitters and their ancillaries but I recognized quite a bit.
I took a tour of the New Jersey in 88 while in radioman a school. Never forget it.
I'm surprised you're not taking this opportunity to armor the officer's head. Would make a great story that even the head is armored on a battleship! Just kidding! Thanks for the videos! Looking forward to seeing and learning about New Jersey's dry docking.
This is quite intriguing! Thank you for sharing this new discovery with me.
Umm, how do I say this delicately, "congratulations on your holes!" Hahahaha!!!!
I just want to participate in a live-in weekend on the ship.
Thanks for the plan link. Super cool.
And now back to This Old Battleship with Ryan Szimanski
Where can I apply to join the Drydock crews? I'm a professional welder.
Very interesting, Thanks!
Ryan must have a flooring background, "skim coat", "leveling compound".
Always cool new stuff to learn.
HY-80 is good steel for resisting deformation, which is why they use it to make subs. It would be good against blast/pressure but not great against splinter penetration. Does that tell us anything about what sort of attacks they were anticipating in the 80s?
With no real authority whatsoever other than the most amateur of understandings of history, I’d say that tells me that they were anticipating concussive attacks rather than direct attacks. In other words they figured the ship was more likely to be bombed than to be shelled. And given the nature of the 80’s I’m guessing it would be nuclear. And a big part of a nuke’s energy is in the blast wave. But that’s a shockwave hitting the whole ship, not a piece of exploding steel punching into your ship then exploding.
Basically the difference between being punched and being stabbed.
@@Hoshimaru57I could see a tactical nuke being an anticipated threat. It was certainly an anticipated weapons platform on the ship!
Great little episode. Thank you!
How about a vid covering all the different types of steel used for armor?
He’s done that before.
ua-cam.com/video/mebkQkomWOE/v-deo.html
@@PeterG1975 I wasn't talking to you.
@jaykirschenman rude response, makes reading comments unpleasant, you're probably some bitter old fart
love the videos, keep them coming, keep up great work on learning more and more of that great ship.
2:53 - note the coils under the teletypewriter to isolate it from shock and vibration. Being on top of safes like that makes me think it is somehow incolved in sending coded messages somewhere.
The typewriter I think is most likely for receiving a emergency action message and the safes would have been for the codes related to the nuclear cruise missiles that the ship was equipped for.
I'm really surprised that mosaic tile is used on a ship, considering the vibrations from machinery and guns, not to mention the shocks going through the ship when struck by enemy shells.
I am really surprised that 1 inch Armor Plating Rotted like that ... looks like they just used just mild steel plating
@@rogerstlaurent8704 It didnt. He said the rot is AFT of frame 123. So the rot was just regular compartment metal roof, not the armored roof of communications, which is forward of frame 123.
Marvelous episode !
I have the same color tiles in my bathroom. My house was built in 1977. Lol
They do look like late 60s tiles but why such a premium and heavy choice for a military ship?
Does it have an armored floor too? :)
Nice hole you got there.
Will you do a side by side comparison to work being done on Texas and the work that will be done on New Jersey?
I was an electronics tech in the 00s, I actually recognize a lot of that gear in radio central. Could probably still work on it too if I brushed up a bit.
"Stop blowing 'oles in my ship!" -Jack Sparrow
Is there a link to donate to the dry docking fund?
63691.blackbaudhosting.com/63691/Drydocking-Battleship-New-Jersey
The deck around the Harpoon and Tomahawk Launchers! Basically to protect the ship from the missile exhaust blast!
I've also seen where they used different amount of leveling compound in the heads, galley, and mess decks to direct any water/spills towards the drains in the deck....
Using a leveling compound to pitch a room towards the drain is common practice in any bathroom that has a tile shower. I've built a few over the years.
Also EMF shielding.
If you wanted too, could you get armor plate?
Another fine installment of "Oxidation Excavation and Archeology."
Amazing! thanks
so the water is from showering? or did you find a broken leaking pipe or bad waterproofing ?
What about the Tomahawk missile launch and acquistion systems, if that is labeling them right, was this given any extra attention?
Out of curiosity, what kind of watch is that?
YAY! 🎉🙌🏻 I FOUND A 🕳!!!!!
(You would have thought he found chest of buried treasure........well, it was "treasure"...now they know)
Holy cable management in that radio room
Some day can you do a video on battle lanterns? The old WW II steel ones, the later yellow plastic ones. Some automatic, some manual. How many battle lanterns on your ship? Do you still keep them functioning?
Pretty sure there was such a video a few months ago.
ua-cam.com/video/54BSWYFhzwo/v-deo.html
Any idea if the same armor enhancements were done on the other three Iowas?
If yall are going to keep using the shower, was there any water proofing done under the leveling compound? That compound looks porous like it would hold water and rust out the steel.
Will you use "historical accurate" tiles to retile the room or will you have to use newer tiles/tiles of a a noticeable newer design? I decided to use quotation marks because i have a hard time writing about historical accurate tiles without it either sounding very pedantic or hilarous.
Have you ever talked about the USS Ling not too far from your location?
Love the channel can we get a video on the Expansion joint you mentioned at 45 seconds in?
A36 plate would be a good choice.....for a replacement....
This kind of modernization is why our navy is the best. How many navy’s would have up armored a section like this on a old boat?
What are you talking about, a smart navy wouldn't have even built the IOWAs. Battleships were useless by the time they were laid down, u need to start thinking bigger and more critically. Take off the MURCA glasses
Not quite, as the Japanese still possessed the 2 Yamato, 2 Nagato, 2 Fuso and 2 Ise and 2 Kongo
@@Knight6831 and none of those were useful as strategic assets. How many of those were sunk in gun combat? Just the 2 ancient ww1 ships. And they were on a suicide mission and would’ve been sunk by DD torps even if there were no BBS there. Battleships were useless in the pacific strategically except as monitors. if you don’t understand that then please study the history of the war and actually pay attention this time.
@@rohanthandi4903 That's with 20/20 hindsight, and what WW2 in the Pacific ultimately showed.
However, that's not what was known be hard fact before WW2 or even in the first years of WW2.
Bismarck was only sunk in May 1941.
By battleships. With little input by (carrier) aviation.
So the BB was still very much a must-have for the US Navy back when the Iowa's were built.
The USN was forced to fight the war in the Pacific on Japan's terms, with carriers, as these were essentially most of what they had left in operational condition after the devastation at Pearl Harbour.
Today, a battleship starts making sense again, as very few countries have the capability to sink one, and can't create that capability overnight.
A battleship would simply shrug off what put Sheffield, Coventry, Glamorgan, Stark, Samuel B Roberts, Cole, Moskva, or Olenegorskiy Gornyak ... out of action or on the bottom of the sea.
@@rohanthandi4903 The Battle off Samar also shows you're wrong.
A fleet of 6 CVE with 160+ aircraft caught unaware couldn't sink any of the Japanese BBs.
Adding in Taffy 2 further south, that's 300+ aircraft.
Nor could the DD/DDEs sink a BB, however valiantly they fought them off.
Read a comment stating they would like to learn about the expansion joints.
Me too.
So exactly where did the water come from? Leaking drains, or from the shower bases I guess when you rip the stuff out you may elaborate later on.
I’m curious what if any was their use of asbestos for the ship’s interior. A lot of old flooring compounds contain asbestos and I’d imagine its use was widespread for ships.
That'll buff out
Очень интересно! Привет из России! Тут тоже любят корабли!
Not sure if SESS is outside of the citadel but that would be a place i would check.
Hahaua they have an SA-2112 coke machjne. God i spent years connecting comm circuits with one of those....
Is that the officers head? The bulkhead says S-2 that makes it a supply galley space officers would be S-5 I thought
S-2 Division was responsible for cleaning and maintaining that head. The officers can't get their fingers dirty.🤣
That’s really interesting that they 1) did that and 2) didn’t update the blueprints to show it. Are you sure of the timeframe? Since I’ve never been on a battleship before, I don’t know where any of those rooms are, or why the navy would have to move it and change the armor like that.
And what are you going to put back down on the floor? You probably can’t reuse the tile. What was in that head originally in WWII?
good job.
this made me wonder if armor takes longer to rust than the rest of the ship, or if it goes faster
It depends on the composition. The New Jersey was mostly armored STS for her WWII era stuff. It had SOME chromium in it. Not enough to be stainless, but it would resist corrosion more than common steels. No idea what was used in the 80s, it may well have been more STS, or something more modern, or even just RHA.
It's complicated is the answer. Lots of dissimilar metal corrosion going on and galvanic corrosion. That's why the ship has passive and active (impressed current) corrosion suppression systems
@@BadHaddy looks like to me they were cutting corners 1 inch Armor plating should have not rotted out that fast ????
@@rogerstlaurent8704 It didn't, the armor's fine. The armored roof stops where that line in the tile was, and it's just structural steel plate from there on under the shower.
Cool!
So cool
Would the extra thick steel make a difference for EMI shielding?
Definitely not.
Yeah, as Ryan mentioned in the last video, New Jersey was supposed to be drydocked soon. In an old girl like her, surprises unfortunately happen.
Drydocking is when you take care of stuff below the waterline. Stuff like this here can easily be done while they're afloat.
@@BlackEpyon agreed. When Ryan had talked about New Jersey being drydocked, I thought it was important to mention. I can empathize. I used to help restore vintage aircraft when I was younger. I can just imagine working with an 80+ year old warship can feel like.
@@williammitchell4417 My thing is vintage computers. Somehow UA-cam thought I'd also be interested in BB-62, and here I am a few years later.
@@BlackEpyon good for you. I would rather work on the wing of a B-25 vs fight with those critters 🤬
@@williammitchell4417 B-25, BB-62, and C-64.... a match made in UA-cam.
I’m curious though, was armour plate like that still being manufactured? If not, where did it come from?
Maybe the nixie room?
I just realized that with modern day laser or water jet cutting machines a damage control group could do a pretty good job patching up damage with cad files and a metal stock supply. Cut it up roughly and then tack weld.
Theres also those hand held 3d scanners you can get, just scan the hole and you can get a pretty accurate file of it
I don't know if that's really needed. A guy with an acetylene torch could cut metal to a rough shape reasonably well and it doesn't require the ship to have power to work. A waterjet cutter takes forever and lasers require a lot of space.
So, after that soliloquy, "What caused the leak?"
I agree! Ryan, we are waiting!
@scottg2981 Officers that spray shower water all over the place?
@@klsc8510 Probably that line of rust under peeled paint in the far wall of the shower booth. It's just old, it's compromised and leaked. Trapped water == rust. Simple as that.
the "leveling compound" is known as grout
Why is 400hz AC electricity 'better' than the normal 60hz AC for the rest of the ship?
It's just what is used for radar and high power radio equipment
400Hz equipment is smaller, lighter and generally less expensive (except for needing to be MIL-Spec). Add up all the generators, motors and transformers on a ship and it makes for huge space and weight savings.
400 Hz is advantageous because it allows transformers in equipment to be a small fraction of the size and weight of 60 Hz transformers. That is probably a much bigger deal on aircraft, but still, saving weight on a ship is not bad. The down side to 400 Hz is that there is more power loss in cabling, but on a battleship that is probably less than 1000 feet of cable so not too much loss.
I’m not familiar with the the missiles and control system discussed here, but if it had multiple use for land mobile or aircraft deployment then making them all 400 Hz power was probably a matter of expediency of manufacturing and having interchangeable parts for depot maintenance.
The optical equipment has to interface with fire control. Fire control uses a lot of synchro's and servos. Running the synchro's and servos on 400 hz means the amount of iron for cores can be reduced so the devices are much smaller. Smaller devices means you can put more devices in the same space, and the devices will run cooler as well, and naturally have greater angular precision.
The frequency of AC electricity is determined by how many field changes the generator goes through -- essentially how fast it spins. A smaller generator spinning faster can generate the same power for less weight than a 60Hz plant, or a more power for less weight and size. Since airplanes and ships have high speed turbines for their propulsion anyways, 400Hz makes more sense for specialized high powered equipment like radar and radio.
Toilet flange is a common place for an invisible leak where damage is discovered later
Ryan, you didn't show the hole in the overhead in the radio room. Why?
The hole isn't sbove the radio room.
I'd look for additional splinter protection all along the superstructure where the radar and GPS systems' wiring runs through the roof.
Dang officers been peeing on the floor.
Why use a premium surface like mosaic tile for a military battleship? I would think an epoxy coating would be a better choice and was available by 1968.
Because when it was built it wasn’t considered “premium “, but standard bathroom fixturing. And it may be less “mosaic” than whatever colors they had on hand. Today we’d put an epoxy coating UNDER the tile, but that isn’t a standard option even today (there are other water barriers that ARE standard).
Remember this head is in Officer's Country. Do you expect officers to walk around on just a steel deck or cheap linoleum tile like the enlisted guys?
Where did the water that rusted through 1"" armor plate come from? It must be salt water to be able to rust a hole in the armor, or am i missing something here/
There was a thinner metal plate right around the pipe but where The rust hasn't eaten through is 1 inch thick
Would it not be better to move the ship to a permanent drydock for preservation? all this water exposure surely cant be good?
The problem with permanent drydocking a ship is the hull ends up being distorting and deteriorating. This is due to the hull not being supported by the water pressure caused by displacement.
Some museum ships have used inventive ways to replicate that pressure but they tend to be smaller wooden ships.
Do it right. Replace it with new armor. Never skimp on your work.
You should display pictures of what you found and their significance, otherwise no one will know once it's patched up.
All that demolished tile and wetbed from this project were in the dumpster when I went past it on Thursday, who wants some Gen-U-Wine nasty head tile from BNJ? Will sell for cheep. 🤣
New belt.
You never did tell us why there was a hump in the floor or where the water came from. 🤷♂️
Well, add that to the list of "things to do" while in drydock.
No need to be in drydock for a job like that, just have a welder come onboard and fix it.
@@MrJamesBanana It'll already be there and tons of welding will be going on. We are all aware you don't drydock a ship for something like this.
Why do you keep blowing holes in my ship!!!!!! CPT Jack Spearow....
Now I’ve finally answered the question; what does Battleship New Jersey have in common with my 1992 Fiat Panda?
And every Lada ever made!
Ya need the armor. She's a active warship in the museum fleet
all toilets should be armored! even in peace time they get bombed daily!
🤔 *Nibbling away at Her reserve buoyancy.*
Probably made the ship more top heavy
:)
178th, 6 August 2023
2” HY-80 steel!? Holy crap you could put an RPG to that metal and do nothing more than dent it!