Turret Crawl on Navy Battleship
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- The 16" gun turrets extend deep into the ship. We will probably never be able to open one to the public. This tour is the next best thing.
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The turret is not a place for the faint-hearted. Imagine in the heat of battle, the noise, the thick atmosphere, the rolling seaway and the constant fear of a hit on the turret or internal explosion. And knowing your likely escape route is maybe five decks below down through cramped and possibly pitch black ladder wells. Brave lads indeed.
The engineering and electrics and the electro-mechanical ranging computers are truly beautiful objects. The ship looks loved - great to see. Thank you for a really interesting video tour.
I can't imagine the horror the crew of the HMS Royal Oak experienced when it was attacked in its own base at Scapa Flow just before the outbreak of WWII. Basically, it was Britain's Pearl Harbor but this was a single attack by ONE U-boat, the U47, captained by a rookie named Gunther Prien. He was awarded the Knight's Cross for this. It still doesn't make sense how he was able to break past the underwater gates without being caught. My best guess is they had no boats patrolling the perimeter of the Orkney Islands. The British were just as devastated by the loss of the Royal Oak as we were by the loss of the USS Arizona.
Agreed. I was inside the number 3 turret of the Alabama a few years ago. Not a place for a claustrophobic. Tight quarters, dark, lots of places to smash a knee or elbow, and the noise must have been horrific. All that coupled with moving machinery that would make quick work of any body part that it came in contact with. A person would have to have nerves of iron to survive and function in there.
Scooter Tramp, I visited that turret as well. It was remarkable that it seemed as big as it was at the same time it was as full, cramped and difficult to move in as you could imagine. It reminded me of being inside a tank, though with everything supersized. All of it gave me a sense that anyone responsible for manning those positions had to be damn sure about what they were doing, and extremely precise in doing it.
@@oh8wingman They had a nerve tougher than Iron, perhaps heat treated alloy steel to endure all that.
Gribbo9999 my poppop was a gunners mate back in these days. Always was a brave guy. He’s passed now, but seeing things like this I know would make him proud! Cheers!
I don't know about the later operating practices, but in my time on Iowa(1946-52) it took 79 men to operate each turret. It was hot, noisy and oil and grease was everywhere. Good video. I have not seen the inside of a battleship turret since May 1952.
That's a lot of men trying to get out of a tight space if things go bad. I'm guessing there were a lot of drills, but I imagine survival rates were low when something did go wrong.
Thank you for your service.
@@zugy if things went bad, it was quick enough that most, if not all of the crew was lost.
Thanks Andrew
@Stimpy&Ren you show an amazing lack of knowledge about battleships. BBs suffered losses but if you would care to tell the class which US battleships sunk after Pearl, I'll wait. . . .
BBs pounded the shores, softening up enemy placements, sometimes almost entirely deforesting an island prior to landing by ground troops.
Skip forward to the first Desert Storm and there were large groups of Iraqis surrendering to the UAV spotter plane from the Missouri. They quickly learned when they saw that little plane, death and devastation soon followed from Mighty Mo's 16in guns. BBs were never "easy pickings".
Can you imagine the sight of the engineering firm at work designing this ship during wartime? Everything was hand drawn and had to be well thought out and each individuals task had to match everyone else's related drawings of other equipment.
Only on the first one I think the men and women that built them had a challenge all that wire that’s in that ship and bolts welding .
Thank you for the video. I'm from Germany and I visited the Iowa in 1985, when she anchored in the harbour of Kiel after a maneuver in the baltic sea. I was 17yrs old then and took a guided tour together with my grandfather, who served on the german battleship Gneisenau in WWII.
First he was very reluctant to visit a battleship again after his wartime experience, but he was deeply impressed by the size of the Iowa, which is quite larger than Gneisenau was. He gave me a lot of insight which wasn`t included in the tour.
He passed away a few years later and this is one of my dearest memories of him. I hope I get to visit LA and the Iowa one day.
I don't hear much about Scharn or Gneisenau anymore!
Respect to your grandfather for serving aboard a great fighting ship!
Hope you do get here and WHEN you do, be sure to let us know you're coming. We'll take great care of you!
Back in 1984, my friend and I was walking along the pier at Norfolk Naval Base to tour an amphibious ship. As we walked past the Iowa, a sailor was standing guard at the end of the gangplank. The Iowa wasn't listed as one of the ships giving tours that day, but we asked anyways. The sailor said they weren't officially open for tours, but they never turn down anyone that ask! We got a private tour and were shown the shell deck (complete with shells) and the elevators. We were also taken into the #1 turret from the upper hatch. Got to sit in there, just the three of us, while he explained all the machinery. It was a great tour, especially since it was still an active duty ship at that time.
The Navy calls sailors who work with guns "Gunners Mates". When I was in, we also called them "Cannon Cockers". Of course, guys like me who worked with radars were called "Scope Dopes". Electronics guys were "Twidgets" , Pipe fitters were called "Turd Technicians" ,and Signalmen were called "Skivvy Wavers", just to tell you of a few nicknames we had for people and things.
@@lewiswereb8994 Cannon Cockers seem to have the coolest name I guess.
The pinnacle of 700 years of cannon and gunnery development. The fundamental operation is the same except that later guns had a breech instead of muzzle loading.
Imagine muzzle loading a 16” modern naval gun. You’d need a telephone pole to use as a ram rod.
Can you imagine the noise, the heat, the smoke, and the sheer exhilaration/terror of actually being down there doing a job to keep those guns firing during a real battle?
Behind the scenes where the work is done. This is fantastic. It make you appreciate the unknown hundreds of unsung hero’s who served well. Thank you all. May God have Blessed you all.
My uncle was GM for Turret 2 aboard the California in December 1941. He survived, but had been declared KIA; his next of kin (and fiancee) were notified. A few months later, he sent a letter asking why no one was writing to him. He had a copy of his own obituary from the event. I've I would have gladly paid for a tour like this; now I get it for free, and I can go back and watch it again.
Battleship Iowa Museum, *thank you so much for shooting and producing this!*
And now I know why almost all crew on battleships would be lost when one sank. There is no way to get out fast
Lucky if you died quickly. Reportedly after Pearl Harbor surviving crewmen lived on for a week or more, trapped in sunken ships. Have to wonder, when a capital ship would ' turn turtle ' and sink, how many trapped crew would survive, briefly, in trapped air spaces ?
Three shipmates were trapped onboard USS West Virginia when she turned over at Pearl Harbor. Trapped in a storeroom, they marked off the days on a calendar they found there: sixteen days after the attack, the last day was marked. Sixteen days. They were 18, 20 and 21 years old.
during a big storm going to japan a cruiser ran out of fuel and sank all men lost 1944
dark labyrinths of death
@@xzqzq It can be quick or it can be longer, it just depends on how many are using the available oxygen in a small place, what noxious fumes could be present, how their own bodies coped, and if they gave up or not -- we only hope it was quick if they were not rescued. Our hearts go out to all those who were lost on ships in Pearl on 12-7-41, may they all rest in peace. I visited the Arizona Memorial a couple of time, it is VERY sobering to know that there are lost souls beneath you. WE honor, respect and thank ALL warriors from every war. Like Gen. Sherman said, "War is Hell" and we certainly agree. So many families lost loved ones during all our wars, it is very sad, but they WILL BE REMEMBERED, for all time!
Absolutely amazing. Amazing how humans developed, built and were able to use such complex technology, and built so many of them.
War brings out the very best in terms of innovation , production, and invention.
ville hirvonen Maybe you should go first then
ville hirvonen Actually nazis were more oriented towards killing the human race
ville hirvonen Also, you were the one who said that the human race deserves to be extinct. It’s worth noting. Cheers!
@@xzqzq ummm what? There were LOTS of shit designs and huge failures.. and still are today.
They need to keep a couple of these ships around. Complete game changer.
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God Bless the sailors and Marines who sailed these ships.
Marines did not sail them, sailors did.
Thank you for sharing this, it's absolutely amazing. I can see why they say it would be soooo expensive to recomission these vessels. The high quality, specialised parts hidden deep inside the ship and locked in place with so much weight above it 2000 tonnes!
Biiig gun, tiny cramped spaces inside. That tour really kicked up my claustrophobia. I've been on the USS Massachusetts and have been stunned by the complexity of these fire control systems. A fully analog computer that can lob a nearly 3,000lb explosive shell ~25 miles and put it in a 3 foot circle. That is impressive.
Amazing video - Thanks
About two years ago my Girlfriend took me to the New Jersey. I think it was the aft turret that was open to the public. You could go up through the hatch he showed and into the rear portion of the turret. I was amazed at how cramped the compartment was. You had to climb over something to get a little further in where you could see the breeches of the guns.
Thanks for posting that video
I served as Gun captain center gun Turret 2 on the New Jersey 1968-69. Great video!!
The USS Massachusetts (SoDak class) is on display in Fall River MA. Her #3 turret is open to view. Fascinating stuff there; I've been there a few times as a kid.
I was able to climb around the upper part of this turrret and work the range finder. Very exciting.
Absolutely have been going there since I was a kid and have brought my kids several times you see something new every time you go
I got to sleep over on that ship as a young boy scout. It was awesome! Go up on deck and move the machine guns and then hope over the submarine they had on display as well. This was over 30 years ago, so not sure if it's all still there.
Same here. My mother wondered where I disappeared to when I found the hatch into the turret from the deck. That was probably 50 years ago.
Thank you very much very informative and very well done..... I am a Desert Storm veteran army civil engineer (62H), Never ever thought about those navy boys in what they did are put up with from World War II God-bless them all!!!
Not just WW2. The Iowa was on active patrol until 1990. There were still battleships firing at Iraqi targets in Desert Storm.
these turrets are quite the engineering feat.
I was an artillery officer, but since we were trained on data, calling for fire, and fire support,, and only on certain aspects of the howitzers we fired, I never really thought about why brass was used for the shell casings and on certain parts of the guns instead of other types of metals. Sparks between the round, its powder, and the loading trays never crossed my mind. Obviously, other external spark hazards were always considered (smoking, lighters, knives, lit debris still in the tube or chamber after firing, etc), but I never thought about it in the engineering of the gun. The BB turret is a flipping death trap. Brave were the boys who manned them. Through the years, of the Iowa class BB's, I've been blessed to see the MO in Hawaii, the NJ in her present home in Camden, NJ, and the Wisconsin when she was still in the Phila Yards in the mid '70s. Never got to see the Iowa, though, or see any of them at sea. One of my fellow Forward Observers became the last MARDET CO of the MO before she was decommissioned. I recall the explosion of the Iowa turret during Reagan's presidency.
Iowa Class battleships are just cool! Being used from the 40s to the 80s and even 90s with the Missouri being used in the 1991 Gulf War.
Seeing him move up and down ladders makes realize how dangerous working in them would be just day to day, not counting while in battle.
At the beginning I was disappointed that I would never get to enter the turret. By the end I was glad. Never thought there was such claustrophobic conditions in something so massive. These hero crewmen continue to amaze me.
V interesting. Great narration - eloquent, articulate with procedures, terminology, equipment expertly described. Real eye opener. Thank you for sharing.
Considering the age of this ship, the technology and engineering are amazing.
Your "little tour" of one of IOWA'S 16" gun turrets was superb. I suspect you were probably a crew member of IOWA or one of her sister's after the four BB's of the IOWA class were recommissioned in the 1980s. This was an extremely timely video to me tonight, as just before I took a brief break to eat dinner (and check out TH-cam), I was reading the book about Vice Admiral John L. McCrea's service in WWII. As you no doubt know, then Captain McCrea was IOWA's first commanding officer. I've been aboard MISSOURI a couple of times, but I've never been aboard IOWA. Next time I'm in the LA area, I will definitely visit the USS IOWA. Thank you very much for this outstanding presentation!!
*scale modelers* WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
That locking design on the powder cans is just incredible.
I wish the navy brought back this class of battleships modern tech and big ass guns
Amazing and informative video. I lost a neighborhood friend of mine as a result of the turret 2 explosion in 1989. R.I.P. Jack Thompson.
I was a lucky enough SOB to have my cover blown off, watching from Enterprise just ahead. It was impressive. No warning, nada. "Wow, there's the Wisconsin." Flash, flash, fa-fa-flash BOom bOoM bA-Boom even with a 15k headwind. I was changing flightdeck deckedge lights. RimPac 1988?
Brought back memories. Did two years on the New Jersey as Turret 1 center gun shell hoist operator. I made that crawl a lot of times.
If the water wasn't too deep where the ship went down, they could have survived quite a while is water didn't get to them. The standard rule of three exists:
You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold without shelter).
You can survive three weeks without food.
You can survive three days without drinkable water.
You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness generally occurs), or in icy water.
Wow. Great job. Great video. Great ship. Great country. Thank you for your service.
It's tough to watch but good to learn ... a dear friend died - Peter Bopp. thank you for taking such good care of the ship! i will visit when the coronavirus has gone.
Donations to the USS Iowa are needed to maintain everything about the memorial.
the scope of all the detail in these ships every thing is just really amazing...
Outstanding video! The Iowa was docked in Brooklyn in the mid '80s so being a Vienam vet I took the public tour on deck and was amazed...still have the Tee shirt!
My father was a gunner's mate on the Alabama BB60. He was a plankowner on her. He was on the 20mm guns on turret two. He left the ship just before the battle of Okinawa.
Well done!! great tour and testinomy to people preserving great machines. Found the tour spellbinding.
Thank you for the movie. It also helps people who live very far away to experience part of the tour, even if it's not like the real thing.
good animations and i learned that brass won't spark. thank you. Good work. and shows quality. again thank you.
That gose to show how alot of the gun crews didn't make it out if it was hit
Actually, men down in engineering have a tough time getting out too...
strait up sacreficed themselve, Jesus. like those gun turrents in bomber planes too.
Very informative. Thanks for tour.
The Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington NC gives one access to almost all of the ship on it's unguided tour. This includes most of one of the torrents from top to bottom.
As a young Ensign I given a tour of turret #2 by the GMGCM. He reveled in telling us how he took ownership and filled in a circular blemish on the mount, feathered and painted it...until the CO saw his “battle scar” (the remanent of a hit from a Japanese 500lbs bomb) was gone. After a short conversation the battle scar was uncovered. I believe Master Chief was amongst the dead when the turret exploded. He was a good man.
These Iowa guns were 16 inch diameter. The Japanese had two larger battleships with 18 inch guns. Both were sunk by USN airpower. The Musashi and Yamato were sunk respectively at the Sibuyan Sea Leyte campaign sea battles and the Yamato in 1944 en-route to Okinawa to bust up the ongoing invasion.in 1945. Would have been interesting to tour one of those behemoths also.
OMG!!
I could NEVER be assigned a job onboard a Battleship that required me to work in ANY part of the Main Guns! Those positions and rooms (?) aren't meant for anyone who was or is claustrophobic! As I age I an less likely to even want to THINK about being in such tight quarters, much less having to work during stressful combat conditions!!!
NEVER have I seen video documentation showing the inner workings of a Battleship, much less those incredible guns!!
HUGE RESPECT to the Men who were assigned to man those weapons of destruction!
God Bless you ALL for your service to this Great Nation for your service and sacrifices.
Overnout
I can't begin to imagine what it was like being one of the four sailors who were only feet away from the actual gun. They're standing on their platforms while this massive gun elevates and recoils.
Exactly!
Gun powder ? surely cordite ? What must have it been like , for those poor devils in a battle ship when it was sinking . With the weight of the guns it turns over and the turrets with all those men inside fall out , horrific !
welshpete12 my grandfather was an engineer on battleships in the Royal Navy during world war 2. He could build anything he set his mind to, and was immaculate. Nothing he built was delicate either. He didn't talk about much, but he said how he dreaded going topside after a battle. It was just as horrific inside as it was outside. When I was young, he would always check on me upstairs repetitively.....compulsively.... and have a grim look on his face. I never realized then, but he was going "topside" to check on things and probably taking his mind back to a less peaceful time. He restored a Rover WW2 Ambulance once. It was immaculate when he finished it. Then he just parked it over grass and it rotted away. No one dared to ask him why. The stress of those, who serve, go through is so great. It is hard to comprehend.
US Navy used a smokeless powder that was slightly less powerful, but *significantly* more stable than cordite.
Fantastic tour. It's amazing how much planning and effort has gone into making this vessel. And all so we can kill each other.
I have been all over that ship. When she was in PNSY. I was stationed there in 1991. Both her and Wisconsin.
Excellent narration. Thank you ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅
After watching this and similar videos, those men and women designing and figuring out what to place, shape and locate parts must have made a lot of money! It's one thing to use and operate but to design and think through all the operations etc., takes very smart people!
Watching this video I'm so incredibly proud to be working at the Watervliet arsenal. Nearly every day im reminded of the history of the arsenal and seeing videos like these I can witness the end product of what the arsenal has provided the nation. Someday I wish to see these guns, and to be able to witness the workmanship of what past generations have created at my own place of work. Almost every day I'm astounded by the history that I'm a part of.
Not to be picky, but WNY stands for the Washington Navy Yard. From Wikipedia, "enormous 16-inch (410 mm) battleship guns were manufactured here. In December 1945, the Yard was renamed the U.S. Naval Gun Factory." (Yes, the gun is stamped 1944)There was an arsenal in Watertown, NY., and also one in Watertown, MA., which manufactured guns, turrets, etc.
Thanx so much. No I understand, how that works. Incredible
You're able to go into these sections on the USS Massachusetts in Fall River at Battleship Cove. It's a really great experience. It's too bad this museum shown hasn't received the proper funding to open more of the ship to the public.
Absolutely Amazing Engineering and Construction !!
Great tour and animation, I guess once in the turret there was no escape if things went wrong, brave men
I was a snipe on the BB61 in 87 88 89....she was a beast and a huge ship I will never forget! Good food...good friends and I know this ship forward and aft.....she is huge....full of rust and a piece of crap! That was then....I remember them trying to shoot off missles and was nothing but complications....but....the 16 inchers worked badass! we could watch the shell as it exploded via old school drones!
I know that modern day war necessitated the decommissioning of these ships and made them completely irrelevant, but even to this day these ships remain a solid testament to mechanical engineering and design. When you consider how long ago battleships were used, and then you look inside one, it boggles your mind at the ingenuity that went into making these ships work. In my humble opinion, battleships like the Iowa are impressive feats of human tenacity and make aircraft carriers and guided missile cruisers look like children's toys in comparison.
My Father was on the USS Iowa for the last 6 months of his U.S. Navy career. He was a Chief Water Tender. He was on 4 different ships. USS Iowa being the last.
And no where does any part of this ship say "made in China".
Come on! Grow up! Products are imported from other countries because they do it cheaper and faster and it is a world market.
Future comanders will be robots made in China.Cheaper comanders than those of Navy Academy.And no wages.
@@PacoOtis fuck china.. come on
Except the U.S. Flag on the stern.
Its just hidden very well or written in very small characters.
Excellent tour thank you for posting. The only thing I would I have mentioned is the temperatures those me had to endure during operation.
As an ex-GM, you can be assured that I will find my way into the turret.
I am with you in that goal! When I shipped over on the Massachusetts, took a cook's tour with an AT1 shipmate. You know. Pushing buttons, turning rotary switches. The kind of things we AEs like to do in our spare time. Pushed one start button followed by the whine of a huge ventilator motor cranking up. Got a dusey of a bruise from a kneeknocker at 60 miles an hour trying to escape the area. LOL. Just one of those great memories.
I believe that the tour guide misspoke about the stamping on the gun. The US Naval Gun Factory responsible for the production of the majority of gun barrels was located within the Washington Navy Yard. The arsenal at Watervliet New York was an Army artillery depot which did produce 16''/50 CAL guns though I do not believe it would have been stamped under the US NAVAL GUN FACTORY. The USS Massachusetts has guns from both locations in turret 2. The left and right guns are from the US Naval Gun Factory WNY and are stamped as they are in the video. The center gun is from Watervliet and is stamped "USA ORDNANCE FACTORY WATERVLIET ARSENAL". Would you be able to provide some clarity for me?
I am Impressed , awsome thank you for the vid
WHat an amazing piece of engineering!!!! Thank you for showing us what is involved to send a volley down range. And to think something like this was engineered with nothing but brains, a slide rule and paper!!!
This is the business end of the battleship. The place where I never knew, I needed to know. Thank you. Jutland in WW II came a foul when the British sailors and their immediate supervisors chose haste over safety in spaces just like these. Remembering those who served in these small spaces and their impact on the freedoms we enjoy is right.
I loved the Pitfall / Atari graphic.
Very informative video, but the Naval Gun Factory was not in New York, it was in the Washington Navy Yard (W.N.Y.). I worked for 25 years in the old Naval Ordnance Building where they were built.
Very nicely done video. Great engineering and all done with a slide rule.
Great video, very informative. One correction - The W.N.Y. stamping on the Breech actually stands for "Washington Navy Yard," not Watervliet New York. The USN Naval Gun Factory was located in Washington D.C. Navy Yard. Almost all of the USN big guns were manufactured there. The Watervliet Arsenal in New York produced major castings for the USN during WWII, but most of the assembly and finish work was done in D.C.
Good catch. Yes, this one is WNY, but there definitely are breeches stamped Watervliet. In fact four of the guns currently aboard are WNY and five are Watervliet. (Look at the breech at the end of this video: th-cam.com/video/PgzpGJf9bjs/w-d-xo.html)
Such an incredible and informative vid for everyone to see and enjoy...thank you so much for the knowledge...you are a master of your craft
Wow! Wow! First time I saw the inside. I was 8 when the Korean war broke out, and I heard a rumor that the US Battleship blasted a Jeep sized projectiles from Incheon harbor to Seoul. I think it was one of those mighty gunships. Thanks.
Cool. Please do a video on how targets were plotted, aimed and fired upon 20, 30, or 40 miles away.
I'm genuinely curious why parts of the turrets can't be opened to the public. I've been aboard both the Massachusetts and the Alabama, both of which have extremely similar turrets mounting the 45 caliber version of the same guns, and both ships allow access to the rangefinder compartment and (at least on the Alabama, I don't remember if the Massachusetts does or not), partial access into the left and right gun compartments (although access to the area immediately around the breech is obviously caged off because of the danger of falling into the gun pit).
I imagine each museum ship is run independently by the organizationt which "owns" the ships. Each one must fashion its own policy as to how accessible they want their ship to be to the general public.There are always the issues of safety to visitors and the people who maintain the ship, and "liability"'($$$) to be considered. Handling visiting VIPs and professional film crews is, of course, another matter.
Simply incredible. I never knew it was so broken up into deep caverns and I have been on the Missouri in pearl Harbor
That's what it takes to keep our way of life and freedom. And it still does. Stay alert young citizens of the USA. Be prepared for anything.
Outstanding video on the operation of a battle ship 16 inch gun mount BZ
Excellent tour. Thanks for keeping the light on.
Impressive details and complexity, who knew?
How nice to see the nameplate from the Watervliet Arsenal being acknowledged..
Awesome tour, thanks very much.. I shudder to think how hot and loud it might have been in there during use. Hard to imagine any amount of ear protection stopping your brain from rattling.
I always imagined everything happened in he above-deck part of the turret. Basically five or six men with a stack of shells next to them, loading them by hand, closing the door then pressing a button.
This is kind of like the A10 warthog, where the whole plane is built around the big gun. The ship must have been built around the turrets and all their infrastructure.
The Iowa museum has been on my To-Do list forever. And here I sit at home on a Leave of Absence for endless weeks from work while we wait out the Corona Virus, and I still can’t go☹️.
I've toured the Alabama and the Massachusetts in 75 and 84 respectively
I recently had the chance to take the "Heart of the Missouri" tour on the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor. We got to climb the ladder into the top level of Turret 1. I must say it was extremely impressive; I kept thinking about how unbelievably loud it must have been inside those turrets when a round went off. I was seriously blown away at the complexity of the engineering spaces, not just in the turrets but everywhere else on the ship they took us. Hopefully the Iowa's caretakers can set up a similar tour some day.
Matter of just a few weeks...
In making the USS Massachusettes a museum, my buddy was there the day they accidentally dropped a disarmed 16" 2700lb projectile down several decks as they were hoisting it up to the main deck. He said the bang was incredible when it hit the floor of the last deck. No one was hurt, but I sure would have loved to hear the first words uttered after it came to rest. : D
Wow! What caused the drop?
@@LandersWorkshop Limited resources and logistics
great tour. thanks!
Here's a scary thought. If you were a sailor on a ship like this and were in the middle of a battle, would you either:
Be positioned deep inside the ship turret where there's the most armor, so it's highly unlikely any penetrating shells would explode in your area, but if another part of the ship were to get hit and the ship started sinking, you were much less likely to escape because of the process to not just get out of the turret but out of the ship.
OR
Be positioned on the deck or in the first 1 or 2 decks below, or the tower, knowing you have a much better chance of escaping, but more likely that a shell - any shell - bigger than a couple inches would penetrate where you are and kill you then.
In HMS Hood the trio of survivors were all on deck but blown clear of the blast from the powder magazine.
One single turret of the battleship is like a 5 storey bunker!
Man nothing can hit hard than those 16 to 18 inch barrels
Another battleship available for viewing the entire turret is the USS Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. They have cut open through the thick armored deck to make entrance to the lower turret easy for tourists-something they cannot do to the 4-Iowa class ships until 2022.
Tom Christman why not? I have been to the uss Iowa 3 times and I wish the tour showed more
Unfortunately, USS Iowa isn't allowing public in lower spaces like other battleships allow. I think it has to do with (again) stupid California rules.
Very soon we are starting a below decks tour. Watch for announcements soon.
That's not strictly true. They've cut an accessway into the barbette and rotating structure of New Jersey's Turret 2 to make it easier to get tours in and out of the turret.
I was a tank crewman in the Army...this 16" gun turret makes a tank feel like a tinker toy...
Amazing engineering! And all of the tasks those sailors had to have perfect to get that shell down range!! Awesome!!
Thanks for the tour. Those old powder cans are amazing! Haha for some reason I read the title and thought you were going to crawl in the gun and show us from in there.
Thank you amazing engineering
Great video. Excellent when talking about the Mk 1A Computer. The Fire Control problem from Mk 38 Visual Tracking with Range Estimation to Weapons Plot when ballistic were calculated via the Mk 1A Mechanical Analog computer providing the Fire Control Solution. I've wound up the New Jersey and Missouri, when at L.B.N.S.Y.
Love how the guy just gives a clean and straightfoward presentation with the 'if i tell you imma kill you' attitude XD