I may have passed your brother on that ship! I was attached to COMPHIBRON 8 and our staff, including myself, took a chopper to the New Jersey while stationed off the coast of Beirut in 1983 and spent the day aboard her. God Bless!
Turret 3 has Ryan the curator of the ship and he has a TH-cam channel just for the NJ. He is as creative with names as the Navy and that is why it is so hard to find it, its called Battleship New Jersey channel.
if you want more indepth coverage and nuts and bolts have a look at the new jersey battleships youtube channel with currator ryan semanski making a video pretty much every week day about some aspect of it and whats going on in historical ships even had historial drachenfeld visit during the moving process from its museum to the drydock in philly
That cargo ship makes 62 look small, yet that ship is massive. There's just something about the lines of the Iowa class that makes them look so majestic. You will never see ships with these lines or firepower ever again.
@@KILLKING110 why because you would rather believe all those government officials that have lied to you all your life over abit of common sense…. look at everything happening in the world and ask yourself would the american government lie to their people AGAIN??? yes they would lie and people like you believe them
I visited the new Jersey in Camden . it was a great tour. A lot of history . listening to the old timers telling stories was even better . thanks to all who served .
Frank Bunting of Philadelphia and Eugene Goralski of Baltimore were on the New Jersey from 1951 to 1955. We went right from Boot Camp at Bainbridge, Maryland to Norfolk, Va., to pick up of our ship assignment! Yes, I'm still here at 92 years of age.
The USS New Jersey is a retired battleship? I didn’t know that. When was she retired, how old is she and if she is retired, why is she being repaired? I thought that when ships are retired they are decommissioned and stored or scrapped? Are retired and decommissioned two different statuses?
@@goddessoftruth Imagine using google. So you dont have to wait 3 hours without any answer. The New Jersey, like a lot of other warships (Wisconsin, Intrepid, ...) was preserved as a museum ship. Because these ships are still in the water, they corrode (rust and so on) which requires repairs from time to time. And sometimes, those ships need to go to a drydock for that.
@@goddessoftruth they navy can re activate her if they need her. they are still owned by the navy but the museum takes care of her in the meantime, and if the museum isn't taking care of her then the navy can take the ship back at any point. so every museum ship is still owned by the U.S Navy. just the museum's take care of them like babysitting .
Years back I had a chance to visit the USS Alabama in Mobile AL. A beautiful park setting and just a wonderful experience. Until you actually walk around a ship like this you don't realize the massive size, the beautiful lines and firepower from the massive 16 inch guns. I served in Vietnam in the Air Force and we knew the USS New Jersey served in that war., I am glad as a veteran and an American we are preserving "OUR" battleships!
My father served on the USS New Jersey during the first 2 decommissions. I’ve never been able to visit while it was in Camden, but it was cool to watch this today. Thank you.
Just looking at this ship and how the buildings that surround her in drydock. It gives you some perspective of how big this battleship really is. My hats off to the crew of New Jersey and the tug operator's to get her in drydock .
Ahhh yes, the drydock! We were in one in San Diego back in the 80's. An earthquake rattled off in the distance and a tsunami alert went out. All ships were scrambled to sea...and I was the shutdown reactor operator on a sub in a drydock! Great memories watching the mighty New Jersey getting some much needed work to her hull.
With all this movement, she looks like she’s been recommissioned and getting ready to go back out for battle! I love this! Such US Navy might in one moment!
I toured the Battleship New Jersey when she was in Long Beach, and got one of the caps that the sailors wore who were stationed on her. I am from New Jersey and was a Forward Observer for Naval Gunfire in the Marine Corps. I never got to be an observer for the New Jersey, but called fire for destroyers when I was based at Marine Barracks Pearl Harbor in 1964.
I grew up with a hero who served aboard the NJ when it shelled Beruit. He later died aboard the Iowa when the turret blew up. Ernie Henjectsze. Rest in peace, Ernie.
Graceful even under tow. The news of the leaking fuel lines and valves the other day was very heartbreaking, as Ryan stated it further reinforced her reduced chance of ever being recalled to the active fleet. Grace, and firepower of 62 is written in her service record for the ages. Bringing her in her is not for the faint of heart it is an organized well orchestrated operation. Can’t even imagine being responsible to get her on those blocks in that narrow margins.Hats off to everyone for getting her to dry dock safely and efficiently.
@@bower31 They said the same thing after WWII, yet brought them back for Korea. They said the same thing after Korea but brought them back for Vietnam. The said the same thing after Vietnam but brought them back for the end of the Cold War and Desert Storm. And now they say the same thing after Desert Storm. See a pattern?
I personally hope deep down that one day one or more of these majestic ships will be refurbished, modernized and reactivated... I do however understand that there is a 99.99% chance they never will!
@ImpendingJoker Yeah they could reactivate the ships because they had ammo and parts, and the powerplants were still maintained, and they still had ammo, and they still trained sailors to fire boilers, all of which they stopped doing after the ship left service. The ammo was demilled, and the ship would require so much overall to be servicabke again that it would be cheaper to build a new one.
@@johneasler9967 He's the curator. That's HIS ship. He is effectively responsible for everything that happens to it, even if he's not the guy at the top of the food chain. It's like saying, that an F-15 doesn't belong to the crew chief.
Whenever I look at that mighty battleship, it gives me goosebumps at the thought of landing on that flight deck (which I did) while stationed off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. Hard to believe it has been 41 years but it is as clear as yesterday. The biggest "documented" memory I have is being there in Lebanon when our Marine Barracks were destroyed by a suicide bomber on October 23, 1983, during our Peacekeeping Mission. The USS New Jersey was there to give our Amphibious Squadron support. I hope others will chime in and share their thoughts and memories of being there in Beirut, Lebanon with the USS New Jersey.
My God, how awe inspiring! I will step more livelier, more swing in my step will appear and my head will be held higher as an American over this grand ship and historical artifact in action. My heart is beating a mile a minute just watching this.
I last saw the New Jersey when I toured the Bremerton Navy Yard back in the 1990s. She was docked with the Missouri and amidst the Ranger, and several other carriers (I believe the Kitty Hawk and the Forrestal along with others). The New Jersey and Missouri were both dwarfed by the carriers. And those older carriers were dwarfed by the Carl Vinson which was further down the line in the active area of the shipyard being overhauled.
Greetings from England, you are American Cousins sure did build some mighty Battleships, I visited the USS New Jersey when I was at University in the US ( I did my Masters in Economics and International Business Management at Cornell University ) she's one fine ship. My Late Grandfather was in the British Army First Special Service Brigade SOE One Commando, Your US Rangers trained and went on raids with them in Occupied Mainland Europe. Is the USS New Jersey being re-activated ?
theres this giant battleship being manuvered into its birth by four or five tugs.....then i see this little bitty man at the end of the pier and hes pulling on the mooring line wanting to provide that last bit of momentum to make her go in there just perfect. Thats a guy who gives a hundred percent effort no matter how high the mountain is. My compliments!!!
I love battleships. The Bismarck is my favorite for classic lines but these Iowa Class ships are just perfect. Beautiful design,has only gotten better with age and all the upgrades.
The Iowa class supposedly was the most stable battleship on the seas. An interesting trivia note according to a sailor friend of my Dad's, the ratios for the Iowa class were taken from the ratios of Noah's Ark.
You see how very powerful tugs regulate large ships. And if a container ship had also been escorted before passing under the bridge, such an accident would not have happened and the bridge would have been intact and no people would have died.
🗽You Got That Right, It Should Be Standard Procedure, With Two Tugs, Stationed At Any Harbor Entrance, Where Huge Container Cargo Ships, Pass Beneath A Bridge Or Near An Inlet. The Coast Guard Better Start Enforcing Port Security, With These Politician's Capeesh, 🤺🤺🤺🤺🇺🇲
I saw USS New Jersey BB 62 in Bremerton, Washington a few ships down from USS Missouri BB 63 in 1976 and 1978 and toured her in 2005 in Camden N.J. Also, saw her at Long Beach from a distance when being reactivated. My dad who passed in 2017 at age 92 proudly served on USS Louisville CA 28 from 1943-46 and witnessed (52) sailors buried at sea and Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler due to (3) kamikaze hits in the Pacific. (1) main gun turret found in 2016 Nevada Desert for atomic bomb detection. My dad spent about 2 months in Phila. Navy Yard putting USS Louisville CA 28 in the mothball reserve fleet. She was scrapped in 1959. Thanks again for your video!
My 4th ship, USS Whidbey Island LSD 41, is at Philly now part of the inactive reserve. Reported aboard the USS Semmes DDG 18 in Jan 1983 at Philly Shipyard...
BB-62 had a long career. I decommissioned her in 1991 in Long Beach when she was berthed on the same pier as the USS Missouri. We were in process of decommissioning as the Missouri was getting ready for Operation Desert Shield. Everyone on the New Jersey wanted to put her back together and go.
No matter their age, the IOWA's will never fail to impress, cutting their beautiful lines of the battleships of WW2, and the firepower to boot (those 16" barrels forever impressive by sight alone), and made even stronger for their Cold War duties and into the Gulf War...certainly projections of power if ever there were...forget about the carriers...these battleships were designed for speed, designed for the fight, all the firepower you need from within their own hulls...can't ask for more than that from any fighting vessel. An impressive job of moving her into drydock, by all involved...the line handlers aboard and ashore, the tugs with their orchestrated dances around the hull expertly keeping aligned with the precision of a surgeon, beautiful work that New Jersey is so deserving of, thank you all for the impressive operation. I recall both New Jersey and Missouri in Sydney Harbour many many many years ago, and having been aboard both, nothing short of impressive then...and now being so much older and appreciating them for what they actually were and still are, nonetheless and probably more so impressive...these four sisters should never be allowed to wallow into disrepair, or be allowed to be scrapped. Long may the IOWA sisters grace our waters!!!!
Beautiful ship! It's great that all four Iowa class battleships live on as museum ships, a great remembrance of American history and military. As the camera pans up at the end of the video, I see the JFK aircraft carrier is still docked. JFK was supposed to go to Brownsville for scrapping at the end of 2023, but it was delayed. I'm hoping somehow it could be put on donation hold status again. It's really the last aircraft carrier that could be a museum as it is the last conventional powered. Thanks for the video.
I slept on the battleship, New Jersey with my son as a Cub Scout. It was an experience of a lifetime what an awesome ship, the most decorated battleship in history. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Having visited the Navy Yard several times in the past few years, it's thrilling to see the battleship in the context of those familiar buildings and ships. You can even see "Big John" (Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy) off to the side in a few shots. You can be sure that I'm going to go down there again next month to see New Jersey in the drydock.
Not far from the Navy yard is Pier 82 - where the mighty SS United States has been laid up for nearly 30 years. A retired ocean liner built in the early 50’s - she is the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction - a title she still holds. Her port of registry is New York - it would be poetic if she were towed back to NYC and converted into a floating museum / hotel - but of course the cost of moving & restoring the nearly 1000 foot long ocean liner would be enormous. Some lonely billionaire would have to fall in love with her.
If you ever saw a battleship next to a modern carrier, the carrier dwarfs it. The USS Iowa was docked at the Navel Station Newport, RI along with the carriers USS Forrestal and USS Saratoga. They made the Iowa look small.
@@PikaChu-fy5pt as a matter of fact we steamed in formation with her in the mid 1980s. And i was underwhelmed. What did impress me was, i was on a small boy and we moved with the seas. But not this battleship. The sea moved around her but she was steady as a rock.
I served with a guy who was on jersey off Vietnam, when the big guns fired salvos, the entire ship rocked. He said the first time he experienced that, it scared the heck out of him.
When i was a kid i loved going there my Dad worked there on Subs its was a bustling place work everywhere,i was on board many ships and subs,an Adventurethis was early 60's.I was n the Wisconsin,just same as NJ battleship.,and many subs,thanks Dad.I Joind later and the best 4 years i had.E-5 MM frsh air Snipe.Well Done Fellows.
My brother was on BB-62 out of Long Beach in 1983 and I was on the Iowa (BB-61) out of Norfolk in 1987. It was a honor to serve on these ships.
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My Uncle was on it also out of Long Beach, he has some amazing photos of this ship. it was always one of my fav.
Thank you for your service sir.
I may have passed your brother on that ship! I was attached to COMPHIBRON 8 and our staff, including myself, took a chopper to the New Jersey while stationed off the coast of Beirut in 1983 and spent the day aboard her. God Bless!
Turret 3 has Ryan the curator of the ship and he has a TH-cam channel just for the NJ. He is as creative with names as the Navy and that is why it is so hard to find it, its called Battleship New Jersey channel.
Fox 29, thank you very much for your coverage of this!! The chopper crew helped us fans of the Battleship see the whole experience of the dry-docking!
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if you want more indepth coverage and nuts and bolts have a look at the new jersey battleships youtube channel with currator ryan semanski making a video pretty much every week day about some aspect of it and whats going on in historical ships even had historial drachenfeld visit during the moving process from its museum to the drydock in philly
Exactly what I came here to say as well. Thanks channel 29. 🙏🏼
That cargo ship makes 62 look small, yet that ship is massive. There's just something about the lines of the Iowa class that makes them look so majestic. You will never see ships with these lines or firepower ever again.
Seems so bittersweet. With it we can make war. Without it we can observe peace.
I'm a sucker for most any old school battlewagon. The Iowa Class, the Texas is a sexy old lady, even the Olympic is a piece of art
@@123toysoldierWe've been observing peace with it. We just don't need it to make war anymore
I wonder what the displacement of a brand new battleship today would be, 150,000 tons?
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What is the name of the cargo ship? That thing is a unit
Thank you for your service, great battleship!!!
they say it for maintenance but its really a retro fir to be ready for WW3
@@Golden-dog88take you're misinformation and get out of the comments section
@@KILLKING110 why because you would rather believe all those government officials that have lied to you all your life over abit of common sense…. look at everything happening in the world and ask yourself would the american government lie to their people AGAIN??? yes they would lie and people like you believe them
I visited the new Jersey in Camden . it was a great tour. A lot of history . listening to the old timers telling stories was even better . thanks to all who served .
Hats off to the TUGS,GREAT JOB ,you guys are AMAZING.
Yes, but can we put this in active service and use it to defend our bridges?
Best thing about this video: there STILL is a Navy Yard in Philadelphia!!
Which is privately owned now 😢
South Philly!
Some of the best duty I had was being stationed at PNY.
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@@jeffreymcurtis Most of it is owned by the city, some is privately owned, but the navy still operates multiple facilities.
Frank Bunting of Philadelphia and Eugene Goralski of Baltimore were on the New Jersey from 1951 to 1955. We went right from Boot Camp at Bainbridge, Maryland to Norfolk, Va., to pick up of our ship assignment! Yes, I'm still here at 92 years of age.
Thank you for your service and for your part in keeping this nation free. I just hope the next generation appreciates it too.
Thanks for your service! 🇺🇸
The greatest generation thank you for your service, sir. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for your service. God bless you and our land.
USS New Jersey BB 62 - Battle Boat - 888 feet long x 108 feet wide! Thanks for sharing!
More like uss japan.
I am impressed by the professionalism and skill of the deck crew, the dockside workers, and especially the tugboat crews.
To all our veterans; thank you for your service.
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Much appreciated
I toured that ship in Long Beach CA, in 79. My Grandpa served on her in WW2.
Thank you to all who served 🙏🇬🇧
It feels good to have a great ship repaired. I am a Navy vet and trained there
Even in this state of retirement, she is still a "Beast."
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All of the modern Upgrades, and still has the Mark-7s installed in 1940. She can still defend our nation with force!
The USS New Jersey is a retired battleship? I didn’t know that. When was she retired, how old is she and if she is retired, why is she being repaired? I thought that when ships are retired they are decommissioned and stored or scrapped? Are retired and decommissioned two different statuses?
@@goddessoftruth Imagine using google. So you dont have to wait 3 hours without any answer. The New Jersey, like a lot of other warships (Wisconsin, Intrepid, ...) was preserved as a museum ship. Because these ships are still in the water, they corrode (rust and so on) which requires repairs from time to time. And sometimes, those ships need to go to a drydock for that.
@@goddessoftruth they navy can re activate her if they need her. they are still owned by the navy but the museum takes care of her in the meantime, and if the museum isn't taking care of her then the navy can take the ship back at any point. so every museum ship is still owned by the U.S Navy. just the museum's take care of them like babysitting .
Beautiful battle ship. Let's not forget the Arizona and her Crew.
That's a beergative.
Or the West Virginia.
i was in pearl while the memorial was being built just across the water from us near ford island
Years back I had a chance to visit the USS Alabama in Mobile AL. A beautiful park setting and just a wonderful experience. Until you actually walk around a ship like this you don't realize the massive size, the beautiful lines and firepower from the massive 16 inch guns. I served in Vietnam in the Air Force and we knew the USS New Jersey served in that war., I am glad as a veteran and an American we are preserving "OUR" battleships!
Great job chopper crew! Beautiful shots.
My father served on the USS New Jersey during the first 2 decommissions.
I’ve never been able to visit while it was in Camden, but it was cool to watch this today.
Thank you.
Thank you Fox 29 for uploading the coverage so people worldwide can enjoy
Just looking at this ship and how the buildings that surround her in drydock. It gives you some perspective of how big this battleship really is. My hats off to the crew of New Jersey and the tug operator's to get her in drydock .
80 years later, and these ships look so amazing
Thanks for your service to all of our veterans!
As a Canadian shipbuilder, thank you for this great coverage
Still a beautiful lady after all these years..A True Jersey girl😊😊❤
Ahhh yes, the drydock! We were in one in San Diego back in the 80's. An earthquake rattled off in the distance and a tsunami alert went out. All ships were scrambled to sea...and I was the shutdown reactor operator on a sub in a drydock! Great memories watching the mighty New Jersey getting some much needed work to her hull.
With all this movement, she looks like she’s been recommissioned and getting ready to go back out for battle! I love this! Such US Navy might in one moment!
Absolute Beaut!
I toured the Battleship New Jersey when she was in Long Beach, and got one of the caps that the sailors wore who were stationed on her. I am from New Jersey and was a Forward Observer for Naval Gunfire in the Marine Corps. I never got to be an observer for the New Jersey, but called fire for destroyers when I was based at Marine Barracks Pearl Harbor in 1964.
I grew up with a hero who served aboard the NJ when it shelled Beruit. He later died aboard the Iowa when the turret blew up. Ernie Henjectsze. Rest in peace, Ernie.
My Dad served on New Jersey in 1953, he will be 90 and is still kicking in Texas-my cousin Mark Payne USMC died in Beirut in 1983
Impressive handling by the tug crews!
Job done perfectly. Very glad to broadcast this event
USS New Jersey 62 looks "Brand New" 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Those tug boat operators are fantastic at what they do and it was Amazing watching them out here in dry dock
Graceful even under tow. The news of the leaking fuel lines and valves the other day was very heartbreaking, as Ryan stated it further reinforced her reduced chance of ever being recalled to the active fleet. Grace, and firepower of 62 is written in her service record for the ages. Bringing her in her is not for the faint of heart it is an organized well orchestrated operation. Can’t even imagine being responsible to get her on those blocks in that narrow margins.Hats off to everyone for getting her to dry dock safely and efficiently.
After she left service the chances of her going back to service were effectively zero. The ship is beyond its useful lifespan
@@bower31 They said the same thing after WWII, yet brought them back for Korea. They said the same thing after Korea but brought them back for Vietnam. The said the same thing after Vietnam but brought them back for the end of the Cold War and Desert Storm. And now they say the same thing after Desert Storm. See a pattern?
@@ImpendingJoker No spare gun barrels or ammunition left. 32 Years since any of them sailed under their own power. Never gonna happen again
I personally hope deep down that one day one or more of these majestic ships will be refurbished, modernized and reactivated... I do however understand that there is a 99.99% chance they never will!
@ImpendingJoker Yeah they could reactivate the ships because they had ammo and parts, and the powerplants were still maintained, and they still had ammo, and they still trained sailors to fire boilers, all of which they stopped doing after the ship left service. The ammo was demilled, and the ship would require so much overall to be servicabke again that it would be cheaper to build a new one.
I imagine that Ryan put out the word that whoever puts a ding in his battleship will answer to HIM!
NOT his Battleship
given the thickness of belt armor, you don't put dings into this battleship. The battleship puts dinks into you.
@@johneasler9967 He's the curator. That's HIS ship. He is effectively responsible for everything that happens to it, even if he's not the guy at the top of the food chain. It's like saying, that an F-15 doesn't belong to the crew chief.
@@ImpendingJoker I'd love to see someone try to argue that with the crew chief. :)))
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Yes it is the foundation bought her from the navy
Whenever I look at that mighty battleship, it gives me goosebumps at the thought of landing on that flight deck (which I did) while stationed off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon in 1983. Hard to believe it has been 41 years but it is as clear as yesterday. The biggest "documented" memory I have is being there in Lebanon when our Marine Barracks were destroyed by a suicide bomber on October 23, 1983, during our Peacekeeping Mission. The USS New Jersey was there to give our Amphibious Squadron support. I hope others will chime in and share their thoughts and memories of being there in Beirut, Lebanon with the USS New Jersey.
I remember that day and the brave marines who died. It was tragic .I was working in the Gulf of Suez at the time. God bless the USMC.
Great job to the McAllister tugboat company threading that needle
could have used their crew in Baltimore a couple of days ago.........
Mcallister is doing a hell of a job!
Was homeported there till base closed, they always did a superb job with us.
A1 job getting everything lined up perfectly.
My God, how awe inspiring! I will step more livelier, more swing in my step will appear and my head will be held higher as an American over this grand ship and historical artifact in action. My heart is beating a mile a minute just watching this.
My brother and I were both on board in 85 brother duty
I last saw the New Jersey when I toured the Bremerton Navy Yard back in the 1990s. She was docked with the Missouri and amidst the Ranger, and several other carriers (I believe the Kitty Hawk and the Forrestal along with others). The New Jersey and Missouri were both dwarfed by the carriers. And those older carriers were dwarfed by the Carl Vinson which was further down the line in the active area of the shipyard being overhauled.
The only thing from Camden that has yet to be stolen
its missing from its pier... file a stolen ship report!
Give it a week
@@JamesGoetzke if they can steal it from drydock...... the navy maybe upset........
Kudos to those tugboat operators..Treating her like a lady.
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Greetings from England, you are American Cousins sure did build some mighty Battleships, I visited the USS New Jersey when I was at University in the US ( I did my Masters in Economics and International Business Management at Cornell University ) she's one fine ship. My Late Grandfather was in the British Army First Special Service Brigade SOE One Commando, Your US Rangers trained and went on raids with them in Occupied Mainland Europe.
Is the USS New Jersey being re-activated ?
Still a beauty Queen after all of these years.❤
That's one helluva parking job. Crew is going, "What time is liberty call??"
New Jersey is huge .... until you see the ship docking next to it.
80 years of technology changes will do that...
It’s a supply ship
theres this giant battleship being manuvered into its birth by four or five tugs.....then i see this little bitty man at the end of the pier and hes pulling on the mooring line wanting to provide that last bit of momentum to make her go in there just perfect. Thats a guy who gives a hundred percent effort no matter how high the mountain is. My compliments!!!
The rope is around a capstan, which is powered and pulling the ship slowly in. He is just helping to wind it up.
I was on the Jersey when I was 8 years old with my father during her 1968 drydock visit. He was a GM on 40mm mount in 1955.
I love battleships. The Bismarck is my favorite for classic lines but these Iowa Class ships are just perfect. Beautiful design,has only gotten better with age and all the upgrades.
The Iowa class supposedly was the most stable battleship on the seas. An interesting trivia note according to a sailor friend of my Dad's, the ratios for the Iowa class were taken from the ratios of Noah's Ark.
My father was Navy took me and my brothers to an open house of sorts. She was being taken out of mothballs , in preparation to go to Vietnam
My dad served aboard her sister, the Mighty Mo, BB 63 in WWII.
I was able to go aboard the Jersey in Subic Bay in 1968 during Vietnam!
My Dad served on New Jersey in 1953, he will be 90 this July…
Several of the guys from my company in boot camp were sent to her as part of her recommissioning for Vietnam service.
You see how very powerful tugs regulate large ships. And if a container ship had also been escorted before passing under the bridge, such an accident would not have happened and the bridge would have been intact and no people would have died.
🗽You Got That Right, It Should Be Standard Procedure, With Two Tugs, Stationed At Any Harbor Entrance, Where Huge Container Cargo Ships, Pass Beneath A Bridge Or Near An Inlet. The Coast Guard Better Start Enforcing Port Security, With These Politician's Capeesh, 🤺🤺🤺🤺🇺🇲
I saw USS New Jersey BB 62 in Bremerton, Washington a few ships down from USS Missouri BB 63 in 1976 and 1978 and toured her in 2005 in Camden N.J. Also, saw her at Long Beach from a distance when being reactivated. My dad who passed in 2017 at age 92 proudly served on USS Louisville CA 28 from 1943-46 and witnessed (52) sailors buried at sea and Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler due to (3) kamikaze hits in the Pacific. (1) main gun turret found in 2016 Nevada Desert for atomic bomb detection. My dad spent about 2 months in Phila. Navy Yard putting USS Louisville CA 28 in the mothball reserve fleet. She was scrapped in 1959. Thanks again for your video!
I worked in and outside of that ship
My 4th ship, USS Whidbey Island LSD 41, is at Philly now part of the inactive reserve. Reported aboard the USS Semmes DDG 18 in Jan 1983 at Philly Shipyard...
Can't wait to take the dry dock tour next month.
BB-62 had a long career. I decommissioned her in 1991 in Long Beach when she was berthed on the same pier as the USS Missouri. We were in process of decommissioning as the Missouri was getting ready for Operation Desert Shield. Everyone on the New Jersey wanted to put her back together and go.
Gorgeous Vessel, just like her sister ships. May they sail again one day in the future.
Wont happen
Part of me wishes this was a partial overhaul to restore the stern catapults and recover crane
Love this ship. Never served on it ,had a friend that did but I always love the way. It looked ! just beautiful.
They just don’t make them like they use too!
Thanks Skip for the links on tools and supplys. Great show well done. Thanks
No matter their age, the IOWA's will never fail to impress, cutting their beautiful lines of the battleships of WW2, and the firepower to boot (those 16" barrels forever impressive by sight alone), and made even stronger for their Cold War duties and into the Gulf War...certainly projections of power if ever there were...forget about the carriers...these battleships were designed for speed, designed for the fight, all the firepower you need from within their own hulls...can't ask for more than that from any fighting vessel.
An impressive job of moving her into drydock, by all involved...the line handlers aboard and ashore, the tugs with their orchestrated dances around the hull expertly keeping aligned with the precision of a surgeon, beautiful work that New Jersey is so deserving of, thank you all for the impressive operation.
I recall both New Jersey and Missouri in Sydney Harbour many many many years ago, and having been aboard both, nothing short of impressive then...and now being so much older and appreciating them for what they actually were and still are, nonetheless and probably more so impressive...these four sisters should never be allowed to wallow into disrepair, or be allowed to be scrapped.
Long may the IOWA sisters grace our waters!!!!
fantastic her colors are flying with her underway
Graceful guardian. Beautiful scene.
Beautiful ship! It's great that all four Iowa class battleships live on as museum ships, a great remembrance of American history and military. As the camera pans up at the end of the video, I see the JFK aircraft carrier is still docked. JFK was supposed to go to Brownsville for scrapping at the end of 2023, but it was delayed. I'm hoping somehow it could be put on donation hold status again. It's really the last aircraft carrier that could be a museum as it is the last conventional powered. Thanks for the video.
I slept on the battleship, New Jersey with my son as a Cub Scout. It was an experience of a lifetime what an awesome ship, the most decorated battleship in history. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Watching those tugs maneuver the New Jersey into dry dock was amazing. It was like watching a well choreographed dance.
That right there is a big part of the reason you are all able to make the choices that you do today. Salute. Respect.
I was on a carrier that was pulled into the dry dock on the end. Quite an endeavor. At the time the Iowa and the Wisconsin were there.
It is very satisfying to see skilled professionals like the tug boat crews and yard personal doing such a great job. Congratulations to all.
Having visited the Navy Yard several times in the past few years, it's thrilling to see the battleship in the context of those familiar buildings and ships. You can even see "Big John" (Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy) off to the side in a few shots. You can be sure that I'm going to go down there again next month to see New Jersey in the drydock.
Not far from the Navy yard is Pier 82 - where the mighty SS United States has been laid up for nearly 30 years. A retired ocean liner built in the early 50’s - she is the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction - a title she still holds. Her port of registry is New York - it would be poetic if she were towed back to NYC and converted into a floating museum / hotel - but of course the cost of moving & restoring the nearly 1000 foot long ocean liner would be enormous. Some lonely billionaire would have to fall in love with her.
That's Awesome. I have pictures of my ship at that time next to us. Her main armaments are totally Huge and Amazing!!!
May she grace the sea, forever!
I know the battleship is a big ship ! But the one next to it is even bigger !
If you ever saw a battleship next to a modern carrier, the carrier dwarfs it. The USS Iowa was docked at the Navel Station Newport, RI along with the carriers USS Forrestal and USS Saratoga. They made the Iowa look small.
You are comparing a cow too a male lion no offense to the cow but in war I’ll take the lion.
Great to know the shipyard is still active, was on the last ship homeported in Philly great city great people.
One man is holding the ship.
Dude is a beast! 😉
Welcome home. From Bremerton Naval Shipyard WA.
This is so cool to watch, what a ship!!
Incredible parking job. Tug boys know their shit. Congratulations.
Tug girls are pretty good too---just so happens a young woman was piloting the tug off the port bow.
Realy GREAT
Love Big J. Thanks for filming this!
She looks great back home at the Philly Navy yard.
素晴らしい映像をありがとう！大変貴重な映像ですね！！長い再生時間だけど、あっという間に時間が過ぎてしまったよ。
US NAVY FTW!
Don't you dare get a scratch on that beauty.
I boarded this battleship one time. For a dental appointment. I was stationed aboard the USS Lang (FF-1060) in Long Beach California.
GREAT tugjob, they really scored !!
Everybody thinks of battleships as these huge, majestic ships. As you can see, they are not. This is a compact, low freeboard, bare knuckles fighter.
Compared to ships of today, I suppose not. But, if you ever stood beside one at the dock or on it, they're pretty feakin' big.
@@PikaChu-fy5pt as a matter of fact we steamed in formation with her in the mid 1980s.
And i was underwhelmed. What did impress me was, i was on a small boy and we moved with the seas. But not this battleship. The sea moved around her but she was steady as a rock.
This and the sister ships are real "beauties" and should be renovated to make them fully operational!
They've been kept to be ready as a last resort. The Navy wanted to scrap them all, but the politicians at the time wanted to keep them, just in case.
I love our battleships. Icons of an era that no longer exists. Awesome that we revere and preserve these behemoths as the heroes that they are.
This is really awesome. The Connecticut-class battleship my grandfather served on in WW1 (USS Kansas) could fit inside the New Jersey.
She is such a beautiful ship !!!!
Tub boat team mastered the back in with only ones side available Total amazing work
This girl and her sisters are so awesome, so deadly, so needed !
Stunning to see the big girl move again, take care of my ship she was a fighter.
GO NAVY
I served with a guy who was on jersey off Vietnam, when the big guns fired salvos, the entire ship rocked. He said the first time he experienced that, it scared the heck out of him.
When i was a kid i loved going there my Dad worked there on Subs its was a bustling place work everywhere,i was on board many ships and subs,an Adventurethis was early 60's.I was n the Wisconsin,just same as NJ battleship.,and many subs,thanks Dad.I Joind later and the best 4 years i had.E-5 MM frsh air Snipe.Well Done Fellows.