Dang! That's real neat. Did I say it right? I was born, grew up, & live in Fremantle, Western Australia overlooking the harbour. I can see the place where the U.S. submarines used to tie up during WW2, just 300 yards away. It is now occupied by the harbour tugs. When BB63, the mighty Miss came to visit, they parked it right outside my home, & what a spectacular sight it made. Thank you so much for this visual tour of the USS Wisconsin.
I feel like we missed a considerably large portion of this boat compared to your other tours that took at least an hour longer to get through much smaller boats. At the same time, of course, I appreciate the look into this behemoth of a ship and am grateful for this sailors' time and years of service.
@@destinationsofhistory7077 Yeah, the EPA and our contract with the navy greatly limits where we can open to the general public, and even the volunteers and employees. We've been ventilating the turrets so soon we should have a lot more spaces open.
When he was talking about sending new sailors to go find the “relative bearing grease” that made me laugh because when I served, we’d do something similar to the newbees. I was a corpsman and we used to send the new guys to the master chief’s office and ask him for the “shelf stretcher”. Another one was we’d ask them to go to one of the medical department heads and ask them to retrieve the keys to the “hep lock” (a hep lock is short for heparin lock which was an IV port that gets inserted into a patient to administer medication…no such thing as keys to unlock it). Fun times!!
Nice find. I took a tour of the Wisconsin back in 88 when I was in the Navy waiting to head out to sea on the Eisenhower. I need to see her again, nice tour back in the day and I’m sure this will be a good tour as well.
This video makes me proud to be from Wisconsin. I was out in Norfolk maybe 20 years ago. We did a tour of the USS Wisconsin. Sadly at the time you could only be on the deck. Next time I'm out there I will get the tour.
My Father was in the U.S. Navy/Pacific WW2 on The AF-7 Artic Stores Ship. They Resupplied many Ships, Islands, Marines and Soldiers through the war. Notably we have a picture of Dad shaking Hands on Peleliu with his Raider Marine Brother! Much Respect!
The thing about all of the Iowa class battleships is they don’t really have that many years of combat time on them. They have been mothballed or now museums for most of their time. But the time for battleships has past. These were huge capital investments when they were built just as the nuclear aircraft carriers are today.
Great tour. There's no way to see it all in an hour TH-cam tour, but was disappointed the tour did not include the inside workings of one of the main gun turrets and the bridge. Now I'll have to come take the tour myself.
@@Khemin They used to be, EPA closed it due to the air quality requirements we have to meet. By April we will have the gun house for at least 1, and in the coming years we will have a turret crawl tour.
Wow! Another simply amazing tour video. I stumbled onto these recently and can’t stop watching. The vets you consistently find are deeply knowledgeable and their insight during the tours brings the ships alive in ways most others do not. You also do a great job of drawing this out of them with your questions. Thanks and please keep these coming while this history is still alive. 💪
@@timothyhouse1622 Actually Main En. Rm. 1 and Fireroom 1 is open. So is fire control. The gun house and barbette are closed to to safety concerns from the EPA's air quality tests. We have a very good reason for them to be closed. GUEST. SAFETY.
When I visited her in April 2016 I saw a poster advertising a USO visit during the Gulf war featuring the Pointer Sisters, Ann Jillian, etc.. is that poster still displayed and in a more safekept frame?
Nice tour... but so incomplete when none of the actual operational spaces was visited. No tour of the Bridge, CEC, CIC, turrets, barbettes, 5" mounts. Not even any of the Citadel, engine and fire rooms, forecastle, windlass, etc. All we got were some of the weather decks, admin, clerical and support spaces (e.g., medical, dental, laundry, brig, disbursing, mess deck, berthing, wardroom, Capt's quarters).
Well none of the interior Forecastle spaces are open due to safety concerns, same with the barbettes, cant have guests going through vertical ladders. And not to mention the EPA's requirements.
@@christopherpapelino889 ... I was aboard the USS New Jersey in 2022 and visited all these areas and with no vertical ladders climbed nor descended. These are the primary areas of the Iowas. Thus their absence from the video was rather glaring. And, I'm sorry, but you can't say neither the Bridge nor CEC were open; these have always been open to the public and with no EPA concerns.
I toured this ship when it was decommissioned with the USS Forrestal in the 90's at the Philadelphia navel yard. That tour was disappointing, all they did was walk us across the deck, I wanted to see stuff like the engine rooms, screws, guns, crew quarters, etc, this was much better though still didn't see that stuff.. At least I can say I walked the Wisconsin's deck. They are huge ships, you can't imagine until you see them in person.
handled manually. Battleship new jersey has a great channel I subscribe too. Ryan the curator has done over 1000 vids about different parts of the ship. I saw one recently about the rooms down below that the powder bags were stored in.
The guys with the loudest key noise when they walk are always the most knowledgeable at their job.
We've got a lot of locks for places even I cant go!
It is awesome that all four are museum ships. I was aboard the Iowa in June. They all look in great shape.
Dang! That's real neat.
Did I say it right?
I was born, grew up, & live in Fremantle, Western Australia overlooking the harbour.
I can see the place where the U.S. submarines used to tie up during WW2, just 300 yards away. It is now occupied by the harbour tugs.
When BB63, the mighty Miss came to visit, they parked it right outside my home, & what a spectacular sight it made.
Thank you so much for this visual tour of the USS Wisconsin.
As a Wisconsin resident, I am proud of this ship and all who served on her.
🫡
Same here brother!!!
This guy was great.
The battleship New Jersey has a whole TH-cam page all about the ship, if you’re interested
Great chap that Mr Pendergast. I would have loved to go inside a turret but the tour was fantastic anyway.
Mr Pendergast, Thanks for your service!
Can you imagine how much of piping, wiring, nuts and bolts, doors, lights, vents, stairs, ect. had to be installed while the ship was being made. WOW
my uncle jim served on the wisconsin in ww 2, i remember all his stories ! wow !
I feel like we missed a considerably large portion of this boat compared to your other tours that took at least an hour longer to get through much smaller boats. At the same time, of course, I appreciate the look into this behemoth of a ship and am grateful for this sailors' time and years of service.
Access on the Wisconsin is more limited than many of the other ships we visit.
@@destinationsofhistory7077 Yeah, the EPA and our contract with the navy greatly limits where we can open to the general public, and even the volunteers and employees. We've been ventilating the turrets so soon we should have a lot more spaces open.
Still usable
When he was talking about sending new sailors to go find the “relative bearing grease” that made me laugh because when I served, we’d do something similar to the newbees. I was a corpsman and we used to send the new guys to the master chief’s office and ask him for the “shelf stretcher”. Another one was we’d ask them to go to one of the medical department heads and ask them to retrieve the keys to the “hep lock” (a hep lock is short for heparin lock which was an IV port that gets inserted into a patient to administer medication…no such thing as keys to unlock it). Fun times!!
Good story. I served on USS Independence earily 80s . Guys would asked, Go to Ask for a BT Punch. 😂
I saw this ship soon after it arrived in Norfolk on a field trip. The cameras don't do it justice. It is a MASSIVE ship
I've seen it as well and its sister ship USS New Jersey, and you are right, they both are some BIG ships.
I wonder how much work it would take to get this ship back into fighting trim
@@christopherslaughter2263 Let's hope we never have to find out. WWIII may have kicked off.
I was there yesterday it's awesome to look around the ship
@@christopherslaughter2263 a lot and it is not ever going to happen.
Nice find. I took a tour of the Wisconsin back in 88 when I was in the Navy waiting to head out to sea on the Eisenhower. I need to see her again, nice tour back in the day and I’m sure this will be a good tour as well.
This video makes me proud to be from Wisconsin. I was out in Norfolk maybe 20 years ago. We did a tour of the USS Wisconsin. Sadly at the time you could only be on the deck. Next time I'm out there I will get the tour.
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Comprehensive tour guys , regards from Australia.
My Father was in the U.S. Navy/Pacific WW2 on The AF-7 Artic Stores Ship.
They Resupplied many Ships, Islands, Marines and Soldiers through the war.
Notably we have a picture of Dad shaking Hands on Peleliu with his Raider Marine Brother!
Much Respect!
The thing about all of the Iowa class battleships is they don’t really have that many years of combat time on them. They have been mothballed or now museums for most of their time. But the time for battleships has past. These were huge capital investments when they were built just as the nuclear aircraft carriers are today.
Big Whiskey! Proud Wisconsite here. The "Temper Temper" story is one of the greats!
Incredible Warship!
Outstanding! Thank you sir! I would LOVE to be a guy giving a tour on my old ship - if it still existed....
Great tour. There's no way to see it all in an hour TH-cam tour, but was disappointed the tour did not include the inside workings of one of the main gun turrets and the bridge. Now I'll have to come take the tour myself.
Turrets aren't open for public
@@FFO2107 How disappointing. They are on the Jersey.
@@Khemin They used to be, EPA closed it due to the air quality requirements we have to meet. By April we will have the gun house for at least 1, and in the coming years we will have a turret crawl tour.
I was on BB-64 as a Marine during the Gulf War. I spent many hours on the deck, bridge, and at the 5" gun mount
Wow! Another simply amazing tour video.
I stumbled onto these recently and can’t stop watching.
The vets you consistently find are deeply knowledgeable and their insight during the tours brings the ships alive in ways most others do not. You also do a great job of drawing this out of them with your questions.
Thanks and please keep these coming while this history is still alive. 💪
The current captians gig on the wiskey is from the uss seattle, the first ship i served on.
Another wonderful tour. 👏 Thanks.
trying so hard to get this ship in world of warships right now lmao i think the iowa class battleships are the most beautiful warships ever made
You have got to cover the USS Texas when tours start again
We'd love to record a tour of the USS Texas!
I’ve been their god bless you so impressed
Boy look at kevins face
That is the face of a fighting man if i was to hazard a quess.
That dude could stare paint into backing away slowly.
It was not a 30 foot tree either at the most maybe 5 feet
I'm guessing that because they aren't in the video, none of the engine rooms, turrets, barbettes or main fire control are open for viewing.
More like the video was already an hour long. There is no reason those areas would be closed off unless the museum staff were doing work in them.
@@timothyhouse1622 Actually Main En. Rm. 1 and Fireroom 1 is open. So is fire control. The gun house and barbette are closed to to safety concerns from the EPA's air quality tests. We have a very good reason for them to be closed. GUEST. SAFETY.
When I visited her in April 2016 I saw a poster advertising a USO visit during the Gulf war featuring the Pointer Sisters, Ann Jillian, etc.. is that poster still displayed and in a more safekept frame?
Nice tour... but so incomplete when none of the actual operational spaces was visited. No tour of the Bridge, CEC, CIC, turrets, barbettes, 5" mounts. Not even any of the Citadel, engine and fire rooms, forecastle, windlass, etc. All we got were some of the weather decks, admin, clerical and support spaces (e.g., medical, dental, laundry, brig, disbursing, mess deck, berthing, wardroom, Capt's quarters).
Well none of the interior Forecastle spaces are open due to safety concerns, same with the barbettes, cant have guests going through vertical ladders. And not to mention the EPA's requirements.
@@christopherpapelino889 ... I was aboard the USS New Jersey in 2022 and visited all these areas and with no vertical ladders climbed nor descended. These are the primary areas of the Iowas. Thus their absence from the video was rather glaring. And, I'm sorry, but you can't say neither the Bridge nor CEC were open; these have always been open to the public and with no EPA concerns.
I walk on the Alabama with my family on vac in 1976.
Looks very nice! :)
I toured this ship when it was decommissioned with the USS Forrestal in the 90's at the Philadelphia navel yard. That tour was disappointing, all they did was walk us across the deck, I wanted to see stuff like the engine rooms, screws, guns, crew quarters, etc, this was much better though still didn't see that stuff.. At least I can say I walked the Wisconsin's deck. They are huge ships, you can't imagine until you see them in person.
That dudes awesome 👌
Is there a guy 6 decks below that loads the 3 - 110 lb powder bags on to something that brings the up ? Or is it all done automatically?
handled manually. Battleship new jersey has a great channel I subscribe too. Ryan the curator has done over 1000 vids about different parts of the ship. I saw one recently about the rooms down below that the powder bags were stored in.
I would love to spend the night on that ship.
He was a Commander-5?
O-5, its the paygrade.
@christopherpapelino889 I know, Commander O-5, that's why I asked it.
I like the game of battleship on display near the berthing lol
The snack bar is also known as the geedunk
The tour guide reminds of a politician...No bs....
Some one get that guy a glass of water. lol
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