Great video. Reminds me of something I read in Paul Stillwell's book on the New Jersey. In 1947, they were load 16" shells into turret #2, down the lading hatch, when one AP shell broke loose from the hoist, and dropped all the way down to the double bottom. The shell's dye pack burst, spreading blue dye all over. (even up the loading passage). If you have the book, the event is mentioned on page 99.
Take time to visit HMS Belfast if you’re ever on holiday in London. You can visit one of the turrets all the way down from the deck to the various stations below. 😊
Hello from Missouri. Id love to visit the Iowa or any of her sisters (mostly the Missouri herself) but its amazing to see the turret of one of these 4 battleships move once more. But i don't think we will ever see an Iowa class moving under its own power anytime soon
Turret 1 must not be able to rotate? always heard the Iowa's could never rotate there turrets again due to electrical needs for the motors. You proved that wrong. so cool!!!
While the rail/trolley system within the ship can be used to move shells and other items both fore and aft, it is not the normal way to load shells or powder to the turrets. Each turret has two loading hatches on the main deck and thru each lower-level deck straight down to the bottom level of each turret. The port side hatches are for shells and the starboard hatches are for powder canisters. The shells are then moved and raised into the internal structure of each turret, while the powder canisters are stored at the lower decks but outside of the turret structure. Each turret must be rotated to align it's booms with it's respective loading hatches. Turret #3, required the smallest degree of rotation off of the ship's center line to align with it's hatches. This allowed for the least interference with tour operations and other activities onboard the ship during the extended period of time it will take to download these shells.
@@bluehardhat315 I visited the New Jersey a couple of times a while back and I thought I remembered something about that. I just thought that couldn't be the way it's done. Thanks.
Interesting Question. There is no video looking out of the gun turret. For obvious reasons, there are no viewing ports in the gun turrets. However, each turret does have two periscopes which can be used for emergency targeting. Battleship Iowa has twenty seven periscopes. Six are on the turrets, 5 are on the conning tower, and sixteen are located in the ship's fire rooms. The fire room periscopes are used to observe the color of the smoke emitted to judge the state of the fuel/air mixture employed by each of the eight boilers.
We did film out the tail hatch as we turned and you can see a bit of the deck going by. Haven't released it yet. Keep an eye on our channel. We'll show it at some point. It looks pretty cool!
The rotating structure, a six-level structure from the gun house down to the powder handling platform, weighs over 2,000 tons with ordnance and auxiliary units installed.
They could fire at the same time but usually did not. They were controlled through the fire station in the middle of the ship. A computer controls when the ship is level and when the gun should fire.
In a three gun salvo, three guns from the same turret, the firing order is: Left, Right, Center. Each gun is fired 0.6 seconds apart. This timing separation improves the guns accuracy. Each of the three gun turrets can fire individually.
interesting how an organization showing that they take care of the ship despite it being a thing of the past and a museum to show the younger generations of what the men on that ship would've done to do the same thing is disrespectful, when it was more than likely our own governments negligence on improperly storing the powder charges in an unknown state and exposed to who knows what. there has never been an explanation as to why T#3 exploded but I'm fairly certain as with any other kind of munitions, as gunpowder ages, it becomes more unstable and much easier to ignite compared to the same thing being done to brand new kinds of munitions for the same thing
The turrets depicted in this video are turret #3 and a closing photo of turret #1. The Turret in which Naval personal were killed in 1989 is Turret #2. T-2 is treated as a memorial and a place of honor. The names of those who died are posted on the starboard side of the turret. Each year those sailors are remembered. That turret is off limits to volunteers and staff except for limited maintenance as may be required.
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Great video. Reminds me of something I read in Paul Stillwell's book on the New Jersey. In 1947, they were load 16" shells into turret #2, down the lading hatch, when one AP shell broke loose from the hoist, and dropped all the way down to the double bottom. The shell's dye pack burst, spreading blue dye all over. (even up the loading passage). If you have the book, the event is mentioned on page 99.
Great stuff it was a wonder to watch.
What a beautifully preserved ship. Great job !
A marvel of engineering!!! Greg
Take time to visit HMS Belfast if you’re ever on holiday in London. You can visit one of the turrets all the way down from the deck to the various stations below. 😊
Hello from Missouri. Id love to visit the Iowa or any of her sisters (mostly the Missouri herself) but its amazing to see the turret of one of these 4 battleships move once more. But i don't think we will ever see an Iowa class moving under its own power anytime soon
Turret 1 must not be able to rotate? always heard the Iowa's could never rotate there turrets again due to electrical needs for the motors. You proved that wrong. so cool!!!
Awesome
WOW! Thats crazy. Is the powder done the same way?
While the rail/trolley system within the ship can be used to move shells and other items both fore and aft, it is not the normal way to load shells or powder to the turrets. Each turret has two loading hatches on the main deck and thru each lower-level deck straight down to the bottom level of each turret. The port side hatches are for shells and the starboard hatches are for powder canisters. The shells are then moved and raised into the internal structure of each turret, while the powder canisters are stored at the lower decks but outside of the turret structure. Each turret must be rotated to align it's booms with it's respective loading hatches. Turret #3, required the smallest degree of rotation off of the ship's center line to align with it's hatches. This allowed for the least interference with tour operations and other activities onboard the ship during the extended period of time it will take to download these shells.
@@bluehardhat315 I visited the New Jersey a couple of times a while back and I thought I remembered something about that. I just thought that couldn't be the way it's done. Thanks.
Must have took a lot of time and men to fully load a battleship.
Are those rails just pinned in place at each bulkhead so they can be removed and hatches dogged shut?
Yes. There are short sections of overhead rails that can be put in place when needed at each bulkhead that has a door.
Do you have any video from inside the gun turret looking out to the main deck?
Interesting Question. There is no video looking out of the gun turret. For obvious reasons, there are no viewing ports in the gun turrets. However, each turret does have two periscopes which can be used for emergency targeting. Battleship Iowa has twenty seven periscopes. Six are on the turrets, 5 are on the conning tower, and sixteen are located in the ship's fire rooms. The fire room periscopes are used to observe the color of the smoke emitted to judge the state of the fuel/air mixture employed by each of the eight boilers.
We did film out the tail hatch as we turned and you can see a bit of the deck going by. Haven't released it yet. Keep an eye on our channel. We'll show it at some point. It looks pretty cool!
What is the weight of the whole rotating construction?
The rotating structure, a six-level structure from the gun house down to the powder handling platform, weighs over 2,000 tons with ordnance and auxiliary units installed.
@@bluehardhat315 That's really impressive. Thanks.
Did it fire one gun, or could it fire two or three at the same time?
And did all the turrets fire individually, or was there a certain firing order?
They could fire at the same time but usually did not. They were controlled through the fire station in the middle of the ship. A computer controls when the ship is level and when the gun should fire.
In a three gun salvo, three guns from the same turret, the firing order is: Left, Right, Center. Each gun is fired 0.6 seconds apart. This timing separation improves the guns accuracy. Each of the three gun turrets can fire individually.
When you see something like this rotating in your direction, it's time to change underwear
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Very poor taste in a promo shot and incredibl;y disrespectful to those who lost thier lives in the incident.
interesting how an organization showing that they take care of the ship despite it being a thing of the past and a museum to show the younger generations of what the men on that ship would've done to do the same thing is disrespectful, when it was more than likely our own governments negligence on improperly storing the powder charges in an unknown state and exposed to who knows what. there has never been an explanation as to why T#3 exploded but I'm fairly certain as with any other kind of munitions, as gunpowder ages, it becomes more unstable and much easier to ignite compared to the same thing being done to brand new kinds of munitions for the same thing
The turrets depicted in this video are turret #3 and a closing photo of turret #1. The Turret in which Naval personal were killed in 1989 is Turret #2. T-2 is treated as a memorial and a place of honor. The names of those who died are posted on the starboard side of the turret. Each year those sailors are remembered. That turret is off limits to volunteers and staff except for limited maintenance as may be required.
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