A little boiler room information: The Bunker C was preheated before going through the nozzles in the guns feeding the boilers. The fuel oil was pretested to find its flash point. Once its flash point was determined, a temp was given to keep the bunker C at before it got to the boiler. Also, blowing down, or blowing the tubes in the boiler was only done at night when in a foreign port. Underway, yes.....every four hours on once per watch. The nozzles on the ends of the guns were also replaced and cleaned once per watch. It was not fun cleaning the tube inside of a boiler when it was down. You crawled in an access port and then used a paint scraper to scratch the carbon buildup off of each tune, one at a time. Mud drum ! Fun times. Lay in it, on your back, and feed a little air motor with a spinning wire brush on the end of an air hose, up each tube one at a time. The noise would resonant the tube and it was loud inside of the mud drum. Not much room to move around in there. Fun times. By the way, the temp inside of a boiler room on a destroyer in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea was 126 degrees. No AC down there. How do i know? I was a BT on a destroyer in 1968. I've been following all of your videos. Well done. I really an enjoying them. I've been BB 62 two times so far. I am looking forward to returning as soon as you open up an engineering space. The last time I was down I was told it may be happening soon. Go Navy, Barry G. Kery
Barry Kery He miss stated at the beginning it was a water tube boiler which it isn't it a fire tube boiler. I can't tell you how many tubes I punched in my life and replaced on fire tube boilers. Water tube boilers were a real pain in the behind.
Barry Kery I have a ringing in my ears 24 hours a day and at night I have to have the tv on to make noise other wise the ringing keeps me up it just a high pitch constant ring and in a quite room its overbearing.
thanks for your service. my dad was a BT3 51-55 on the Raby (DE-698) and then the WB Cobb (APD-108 ex DE) who spent all of his career in he caribbean with a med cruise thrown in, on the Cobb... once in the caribbean, the ventilation broke down and it was over 150o so they could only stand watch for 15 minutes at a time before "coming up for air" and a canteen of water. they had to wear sleeves and gloves so they could touch anything in the space...
@@oldfarmer4700 Try a hearing aid with a noise feature. I have mine turned off but if I had tinnitus I'd ask that it be turned on as it adds a tiny bit of noise (adjustable) so you don't have to add noise to your room. I've had bouts where it sounds like a refrigerator running in the next room which is not too bad. Right now, OK. Thanks for your service. If you don't have a hearing aid the VA owes you one (or two). I only wear one as I was born with almost no hearing in the other and it got worse but my good ear is not good either so I need the aid for that. Bluetooth in the aid is another worthy feature. I can talk hands free on my cell phone for one.
Ryan, just wanted to offer some words of encouragement. You and your team are providing some A+ entertainment value to those of us stuck in lock-down. Love the channel, keep up the good work, and rest assured that I'll be there to visit in person once the museum opens back up again! Fair winds, and following seas
Why in the world are you in Lockdown? My State has never went into Lockdown, and our COVID death rate is 1.28 % New Jersey is double that at 2.6%. Lockdowns dont work! Why are you allowing your liberties to be encroached upon like that? I bet those who served on the USS New Jersey during WWII wouldnt have allowed their liberties to be encroached on so easily.... Its Sad..... I wonder how many of the nursing home deaths in NJ were WWII Vets who had served on the NJ, and other ships like her?
@@unitedwestand5100 The normal flu had an incidents rate of 2500-3000 per 100k residents. And there is barely any excess death when patients that were not treated are subtracted, mostly above 85 years old. The problem is the misinformation induced panic in the media. And most politicians and "journalists" are bad at math and especially statistics. As to that "journalists" than no longer reports facts but just want their viewpoint across. Tot can easily see which places did follow scientific evidence and which places followed the media and shut off their brain. They tried some form of lockdown here too, but barely anyone followed along, so they have up and just reported on the "high numbers" out of empty hospitals.
@@unitedwestand5100 some people at least try to follow public safety guidelines because they care about other people, even at the expense of being minorly inconvenienced by having to stay at home, or God forbid, wear a thin piece of cloth on our face. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't (it did) but at least some people with a thing called "empathy" made an effort to better the situation for everyone, instead of being a Karen and bitching about "personal freedom".
I was actually surprised by that, i have seen stated in other videos that they are not allowed to reactivate any of the gun systems under their agreement with the Navy. That elevator would seem to be "part of the gun system", which raises the question how is it working? Possible question to be answered in another video??
Just to clarify, soot blowing (with that handle you demonstrated) blows soot from the fire side of the boiler. "Blowing down" the boiler involves releasing dirt from the bottom of the water side of the boiler, through a valve that blows it out through a ship's-side valve.
Here's a suggestion for a future video: Since you have the 1890's Cruiser USS Olympia directly across the water from USS New Jersey, how about discussing features that have stayed essentially the same vs. those that have dramatically changed or been eliminated between the times of these two historic gun ships.
Having been a Machinist Mate on a Destroyer built in the late 50's and served in the 80's, it would be interesting to see a video on the watch stations in the engine rooms. Throttles were a tedious watch at times. I spent most of my time on the lower level, 6 hours on watch then 6 hours off. Temperatures were usually well over 110 degrees and sometimes over 140.
Fascinating - y'all have the hoist working. I take it that is an electric appliance, given your previous comments about the prohibition to apply any steam in the ship.
7:13 As a young teen in about 1964 I bought a war surplus Hammarlund tube radio, with a large separate tube power supply, and speaker, all for $25 at a garage sale. The radio looked much like the unit shown here. I attached a long wire for an antenna, and powered it up at night when reception was best. Dialing through many frequencies I would hear Morse, German, Italian, and other languages, all a mystery to me. I tried my best to learn Morse - our Junior High even had a Morse training device and the General Science teacher would work with interested students seeking a ham operators license. But alas I didn't have the discipline to learn Morse. I kept the radio for several years into my twenties, but gradually it made its way to our basement storage, and one day I re-sold it at a garage sale, still in working order, for the same $25 I originally paid. You can see one almost like mine or this one, but perfectly rebuilt and restored at the Mr Carlsens Lab channel here on YT called "Tube Radio Restoration, Hammarlund HQ-120."
Query about the main battery shells. My Dad helped may 16 inch shells during WWII at Crucible Steel in New Jersey (Newark I think), he worked a lathe usually used to cut a groove for the driving band in various types of shells (4.7 for the Brits prewar, some aerial bombs converted to shell firing for testing, etc). I have always wondered if the 16 in. shells made during WWII were used up during the war, or if the Iowas used them throughout their various deployments? If they were used up, when and when were new ones made?
The Navy had warehouses full of shells left over at the end of WWII. The Iowas continued using WWII-made 16" shells through the end of their service lives, along with some new types of shells which were conversions of old HC shells (such as the anti-personnel shell of the 1980s). All remaining 16" shells were disposed of in the early 20-teens.
Ships generally burn the thick crude oil in the shipping lanes and way out to sea. But close to land they burn regular diesel fuel so they don't smoke everyone out!
It depends on where in the world you are and what regulations are in place. Certain areas such as Alaska are designated "special areas" under MARPOL annex VI, and in these areas you can only burn diesel. In other parts of the world where rules are less strict, you can burn heavy fuel oil in port.
For more than 50 years, U.S. Navy ships have burned NATO standard F76 naval distillate fuel (also called "Diesel Fuel, Marine"). The Iowa class were converted to burn this fuel when they were reactivated in the 1980s.
Hey here's a question I haven't seen answered recently (might have missed it?) If you're serving on a capital ship inside the armored citadel, and a shell hits the armor near where you're stationed, of course there will be a loud noise. Did those exposed to it lose their hearing? Assuming the armor defeats the projectile, are there other effects that could hurt you? Or are you relatively safe? I'm thinking about shock waves from the detonation migrating through the armor. I already know about splinters coming off the back of the armor, that's generally low risk with the backing, splinter decks and bulkheads designed to catch those before they can do any damage. Are there memoirs from men who had this experience in WW II or WW I?
Ryan, in the video you stated the floor was greased where the main gun rounds were kept so you could slide them over to the hoist. Did the sailors have a problem sipping on it as they moved the rounds? Also if I remember correctly the main mast was shortened so the NJ could pass under the bridge/s it needed to when it was towed up the Delaware. Has the mast been restored to it's original height?
Ryan - Another great video - keep up the good work! One request. One of your scenes on this video was from the central radio room. I'm a ham (WB7OVB) and I was fortunate enough to do some of my original training in the 1960's on old Collins and Hallicrafters sets similar to the sets on the New Jersey. Could you do a segment on the radio facilities on the ship? I'm sure that many of my fellow hams would be interested in specifics, like power, radio watches, operating procedures and range, etc. Thanks again for all you do! Mark Peterson
Since the magazines used chilled water did the chiller ever go down? If so, any idea what the critical temperature was? What was the fail safe procedure for clearing the magazine or cooling it down? It seems the only two alternatives are move it or cool it.
Nice job demonstrating parbuckling the shells. You made it look easy. No doubt it's more, er, "interesting" when the ship is underway and rolling in heavy seas. Do the manuals or placards give a limit for how much pitch or roll the ship can have and still be able to fight the guns?
Suggestion for a video, see if a 360 camera maker would loan you a few of their cameras, a walk through of some spaces that will likely never be opened to the public in 360 view would be very interesting
How did those guys moving them shelves around keep their footing if they're standing on Grease? That would totally suck the slip and fall and land in one in 2 in of Grease
There was a comment on another video that had the shell deck in it and they said that most guys would stay in one spot and not be moving that much. I believe the same comment also said the grease was more like oil and it wasn't awfully thick
There's no grease. The deck had a very thin coating of light mineral oil on it, like wiping a skillet with an oily paper towel. The deck was a bit slick but those guys weren't walking around much and where they usually stood they had strips of non-skid on the deck.
So burning the crude oil created a maintenance task. What about the salt residue left by distilling the seawater? This was a different boiler and another major maintenance task?
What do the various shell colors indicate? I've see that practice shells are blue. What about black or beige? I'm also surprised the Navy would allow you to keep non-practice shells.
The Navy allows them to have paint... Usually green and yellow means high explosive, a black body or tip means armor piercing, and white means smoke or illumination...
The fire room requests permission from the EOOW, the EOOW requests permission from the OOD. There are usually 4 boilers lit for normal steaming, and just 2 at anchor to provide power and hotel services. They were blown one at a time.
question to Battleship New Jersey- where the fire control rooms that were "sealed" because of what the US Navy did "to de-militarized" the ship to enable of it to become a museum ship"? Another question to Battleship New Jersey: are you going to make a You Tube video message when the radar on the 0-13 level is finally "operating on power" ?
When we get the radar fixed, y'all will definitely hear all about it, so stay tuned on that! As far as your other question, the fire control rooms, I'm not entirely sure what you mean specifically, CEC/CIC/plotting rooms. At any rate, none of them were really "sealed", in fact we've filmed in all three spaces a few times. The navy took some things with them when they left to use in other spaces, but the plotting computers are still there and usable.
@@BattleshipNewJersey I think I meant where the "triggers" to fire the 16 inch gun barrels. Also, when the New Jersey was first built - where " smoke generators" ever installed to " help to lay down smoke " to hide ships from enemy surface ships or not?
Assuming this hasn’t been done already, I would love to see the bridge of the ship and learn about the redundancy built in the ship in the event the bridge is destroyed.
I am Interested in what some of the the wiring passages of the New Jersey look like. You can see some video and images of one of the passages of the Texas on the Battleship Texas Foundation Facebook page.
Hey Ryan! Thanks for tackling two of my questions, about the boilers and the parbuckling! I've seen on your Facebook page the daily deck logs, how they mention blowing tubes on all steaming boilers, so now I know how! The image then that I messaged the NJs Facebook page must be the extensive cleaning with people inside. Pretty crazy how they moved those heavy shells too, using just a rope (and some grease 😅). It's neat to see the shell hoist working too! I wasn't expecting seeing that as well! That's all tied in electrically, right? Being decommissioned, most of the hydraulic systems are probably inoperable, right?
We suspect that image is of a train, not a ship, and a completely different type of system. The hoist is electric, correct. We have got a lot of the ships non-steam systems working again in some form or another, but certainly not all, and many in modified ways, like this hoist.
Who was surprised when he just moved the shell with his hands? I thought that was a proper one, in fact, instead I'm just going to believe that he's just got superhuman strength
A Navy vet I work with claims if you wanted revenge or to just mess with someone onboard you'd slip some super purified feedwater into their coffee. It's so pure it acts like a laxative and the victim would be making head calls quite frequently for a few hours.
TS: Pure water will not act that way. After all, people buy distilled water for drinking without problems. Feedwater that has been treated with certain chemicals used to prevent scaling will probably make someone ill. BTW, I"ve never heard of doing such a thing to a shipmate. USNR-ret'd.
you are close... for certain sailors, Phenolphthalein would have been used to get those results. Why? any range of reasons. i.e. like the guy Was playing with your girlfriend, ripping you off, being a total bogart, lying about an incident to stay out of trouble or perhaps he was just a Brown noser that needed some deckplate training sessions. Phenolphthalein is normally used for water testing when testing for PH levels.
A question about the shells - I know they're color coded, and blue is inert training (I think-), but what are the other ones? And what does the yellow banding mean?
On military aircraft (I don’t know if it’s the same for ship ammunition)... Yellow banding means high explosive Brown banding means rocket propellant Pink banding is a functional seeker head on a missile Light green banding is smoke White banding is illumination
Normal steaming configuration was 4 boilers, which would allow full speed. Additional boilers were required for flank speed and were sometimes lit for combat conditions.
My question is relative to what AC voltages are being generated and used? I am curious about the power blocks color coded red, whit, and blue with 3 outlets in each color. What are the purposes and in case of being exposed to sea water would they not short out and not be usable?
The barrels of the main guns obviously had a powerful hydraulic system to raise/lower them before firing and reloading, how much weight could they (the barrels) lift if used in a 'crane jib' fashion to move something on the deck I wonder. Does anyone know just how powerful the hydraulic system really was, and was a gun barrel ever used in this fashion i.e. in an emergency to lift something onto the ship. Always a fascinating channel to watch.
The guns were raised and lowered by screws, and since the gun barrels weighed about 100 tons each, they could easily lift a couple extra tons. I saw this done a couple times. The first time it was proposed, the weapons officer was alarmed with the idea until the math was presented to him.
Hi Ryan, I'm wondering if you might have information on the typical load out of the 16" between AP and HC shells assuming the ship is not on a bombardment mission. Been digging around trying to find that without any success, even navweaps didn't have those particular details (it has more or less everything most people could want about the gun and the shells, just not how many were carried under typical conditions). Thanks for all the vids; this channel is a treasure trove of great stuff. Hope you and your team are well. Cheers
Hi Ryan, excellent video. I live near the USS Massachusetts. I've always wondered, are there some things which are not allowed to work; either by the navy or by other authorities? For example, are you not allowed to fire a boiler, or run the directors and a mount on power to demonstrate auto elevation of the barrels?
Is the electornics for the radar (other than the motor) is still onboard / operational? I have seen that radar-like display on the CIC, but afaik that was only a video on a loop playback for simulation. I know, operating the onboard radar would require great amount of power and also proper cooling for the equipment, so that's out of question for a museum. I'm just curious about the state of those systems. Is the navy left those systems in operational condition? Great videos, btw! :)
It was unlikely but not impossible to tip over a shell because they're bottom-heavy. Detonation was not a risk - the fuses on the shells were armed by a combination of acceleration and spinning that could only be achieved by firing the shell through a rifled gun. The shells were designed to be very safe to handle and store.
That's what I wanted to know... so the ship uses chilled water like a commercial building. I would assume the chillers were water-cooled, meaning sea water was used as condenser water... I would like a more in-depth view of the different HVAC systems... I'm a building automation technician with about 20 years in the HVAC industry...
The ammunition storage and handling systems are insane. There is little protection from sympathetic detonation of multiple shells. The fact that no-one else had another system does not make it any less crazy.
The shells were designed to be practically impossible to detonate accidentally. Like most modern artillery shells, they were equipped with a fuze which was armed by the combination of sharp acceleration and rotation when fired through a rifled gun barrel, with a mechanical time delay to ensure the shell was clear of the muzzle when it armed. You could literally drop them from several stories up onto concrete and they would not explode. They were very safe to handle and store.
I still wonder on how well the parbuckling system worked in rougher conditions. It seems some of the other countries BBs had more positive ways of handling rounds where the chances of a shell getting away is much less.
It seems crazy that you are not allowed to bring the ship up on power to keep things working. Why not allow the boilers to be lit once a month and exercise each engine keeping the steam turbines running. I don’t understand how they can be committed to decay this way.
Nice video. I had one question answered. Why does the audio suck in your videos? Thanks! Looking forward to your full tour of No 2 turret!!!!!! Growing up, I had a close much older friend that had served about a year aboard USS Tennessee. One bright Sunday morning he was at his combat station in turret No 2. He got the purple heart for that action. Long story!
Battleships are made of steel and just not great environments to film in. Add the loud AC thats needed to keep such strange setups cool, and its always going to be kinda crummy audio quality. We're doing the best we can!
I remember in a tour aboard USS Salem in Fore River, MA we did a tour of the radar room and the guide said that some of the ship veterans had gotten the system working early in its life as a museum ship and fires it up and promptly shut down Logan Airport.... so yeah, FCC and FAA would both have some serious issues with that. It would be fun though.....
Minerals don't evaporate out of water, the water is distilled and evaporated. If what Ryan says is true that minerals evaporate it would rain mud and rocks on Earth, which is just not true.
He is, this just happens to be one of the earliest compartments for AC which means a very loud blower, plus all of the electrical equipment that buzzes. Battleships are not sound friendly, unfortunately.
I think he does rather well explaining without que cards and going by memory with some impressive knowledge about the ship. Why don't you make a video about something you're passionate about explaining things from memory, post it, and let Ryan critique it.
That's really rude, and unwelcome. Keep in mind this is a professional historian that is mindful of his audience and presenting with a general audience in mind. If Ryan were giving a talk to a group of sailors who served aboard, or at a gathering of curators or historians, his delivery would be different. It's part of what makes the channel so successful. Making the information accessible to a general audience is essential.
A little boiler room information: The Bunker C was preheated before going through the nozzles in the guns feeding the boilers. The fuel oil was pretested to find its flash point. Once its flash point was determined, a temp was given to keep the bunker C at before it got to the boiler. Also, blowing down, or blowing the tubes in the boiler was only done at night when in a foreign port.
Underway, yes.....every four hours on once per watch.
The nozzles on the ends of the guns were also replaced and cleaned once per watch.
It was not fun cleaning the tube inside of a boiler when it was down. You crawled in an access port and then used a paint scraper to scratch the carbon buildup off of each tune, one at a time.
Mud drum ! Fun times. Lay in it, on your back, and feed a little air motor with a spinning wire brush on the end of an air hose, up each tube one at a time. The noise would resonant the tube and it was loud inside of the mud drum. Not much room to move around in there.
Fun times. By the way, the temp inside of a boiler room on a destroyer in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea was 126 degrees. No AC down there.
How do i know? I was a BT on a destroyer in 1968.
I've been following all of your videos. Well done. I really an enjoying them. I've been BB 62 two times so far. I am looking forward to returning as soon as you open up an engineering space. The last time I was down I was told it may be happening soon.
Go Navy, Barry G. Kery
Barry Kery He miss stated at the beginning it was a water tube boiler which it isn't it a fire tube boiler. I can't tell you how many tubes I punched in my life and replaced on fire tube boilers. Water tube boilers were a real pain in the behind.
@@oldfarmer4700 Fun times punching tubes, wasn't it? Ha Ha How are your ears? They DID NOT offer us ear plugs back then. Barry
Barry Kery I have a ringing in my ears 24 hours a day and at night I have to have the tv on to make noise other wise the ringing keeps me up it just a high pitch constant ring and in a quite room its overbearing.
thanks for your service. my dad was a BT3 51-55 on the Raby (DE-698) and then the WB Cobb (APD-108 ex DE) who spent all of his career in he caribbean with a med cruise thrown in, on the Cobb...
once in the caribbean, the ventilation broke down and it was over 150o so they could only stand watch for 15 minutes at a time before "coming up for air" and a canteen of water. they had to wear sleeves and gloves so they could touch anything in the space...
@@oldfarmer4700 Try a hearing aid with a noise feature. I have mine turned off but if I had tinnitus I'd ask that it be turned on as it adds a tiny bit of noise (adjustable) so you don't have to add noise to your room. I've had bouts where it sounds like a refrigerator running in the next room which is not too bad. Right now, OK. Thanks for your service. If you don't have a hearing aid the VA owes you one (or two). I only wear one as I was born with almost no hearing in the other and it got worse but my good ear is not good either so I need the aid for that. Bluetooth in the aid is another worthy feature. I can talk hands free on my cell phone for one.
Ryan, just wanted to offer some words of encouragement. You and your team are providing some A+ entertainment value to those of us stuck in lock-down. Love the channel, keep up the good work, and rest assured that I'll be there to visit in person once the museum opens back up again! Fair winds, and following seas
Thanks so much!
Why in the world are you in Lockdown?
My State has never went into Lockdown, and our COVID death rate is 1.28 %
New Jersey is double that at 2.6%.
Lockdowns dont work!
Why are you allowing your liberties to be encroached upon like that?
I bet those who served on the USS New Jersey during WWII wouldnt have allowed their liberties to be encroached on so easily....
Its Sad.....
I wonder how many of the nursing home deaths in NJ were WWII Vets who had served on the NJ, and other ships like her?
@@unitedwestand5100 The normal flu had an incidents rate of 2500-3000 per 100k residents. And there is barely any excess death when patients that were not treated are subtracted, mostly above 85 years old.
The problem is the misinformation induced panic in the media. And most politicians and "journalists" are bad at math and especially statistics. As to that "journalists" than no longer reports facts but just want their viewpoint across.
Tot can easily see which places did follow scientific evidence and which places followed the media and shut off their brain.
They tried some form of lockdown here too, but barely anyone followed along, so they have up and just reported on the "high numbers" out of empty hospitals.
@@unitedwestand5100 some people at least try to follow public safety guidelines because they care about other people, even at the expense of being minorly inconvenienced by having to stay at home, or God forbid, wear a thin piece of cloth on our face. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't (it did) but at least some people with a thing called "empathy" made an effort to better the situation for everyone, instead of being a Karen and bitching about "personal freedom".
Great to see the shell hoist is still working!
I was actually surprised by that, i have seen stated in other videos that they are not allowed to reactivate any of the gun systems under their agreement with the Navy. That elevator would seem to be "part of the gun system", which raises the question how is it working? Possible question to be answered in another video??
It doesn’t unfortunately. They just rigged it with a hoist the museum bought.
Just to clarify, soot blowing (with that handle you demonstrated) blows soot from the fire side of the boiler. "Blowing down" the boiler involves releasing dirt from the bottom of the water side of the boiler, through a valve that blows it out through a ship's-side valve.
Ryan , you and your crew are doing an awesome job of documenting and preserving history! You and your crew can not be thanked enough! Thank you!
Here's a suggestion for a future video: Since you have the 1890's Cruiser USS Olympia directly across the water from USS New Jersey, how about discussing features that have stayed essentially the same vs. those that have dramatically changed or been eliminated between the times of these two historic gun ships.
We do special guided tours about this in collaboration with them, this is something we are definitely interested in, thanks for the idea!
Joe stole my idea!
Joe- I like this suggestion of yours for a future video.
Was on the ship in July a few years ago. It had great AC! 😎
Ryan, you are the MAN! Moving that 2700 lbs projectile all by yourself!
Having been a Machinist Mate on a Destroyer built in the late 50's and served in the 80's, it would be interesting to see a video on the watch stations in the engine rooms. Throttles were a tedious watch at times. I spent most of my time on the lower level, 6 hours on watch then 6 hours off. Temperatures were usually well over 110 degrees and sometimes over 140.
Fascinating - y'all have the hoist working. I take it that is an electric appliance, given your previous comments about the prohibition to apply any steam in the ship.
This is perfect info for my LEGO 16 inch turret I’m trying to make. Thankyou
any pictures of this lego model? would be interested to see it.....
7:13 As a young teen in about 1964 I bought a war surplus Hammarlund tube radio, with a large separate tube power supply, and speaker, all for $25 at a garage sale. The radio looked much like the unit shown here. I attached a long wire for an antenna, and powered it up at night when reception was best. Dialing through many frequencies I would hear Morse, German, Italian, and other languages, all a mystery to me.
I tried my best to learn Morse - our Junior High even had a Morse training device and the General Science teacher would work with interested students seeking a ham operators license. But alas I didn't have the discipline to learn Morse. I kept the radio for several years into my twenties, but gradually it made its way to our basement storage, and one day I re-sold it at a garage sale, still in working order, for the same $25 I originally paid. You can see one almost like mine or this one, but perfectly rebuilt and restored at the Mr Carlsens Lab channel here on YT called "Tube Radio Restoration, Hammarlund HQ-120."
You're doing an awesome job. Keep up the good work!
Query about the main battery shells. My Dad helped may 16 inch shells during WWII at Crucible Steel in New Jersey (Newark I think), he worked a lathe usually used to cut a groove for the driving band in various types of shells (4.7 for the Brits prewar, some aerial bombs converted to shell firing for testing, etc). I have always wondered if the 16 in. shells made during WWII were used up during the war, or if the Iowas used them throughout their various deployments? If they were used up, when and when were new ones made?
The Navy had warehouses full of shells left over at the end of WWII. The Iowas continued using WWII-made 16" shells through the end of their service lives, along with some new types of shells which were conversions of old HC shells (such as the anti-personnel shell of the 1980s). All remaining 16" shells were disposed of in the early 20-teens.
Wow you're strong Ryan!!
I am very impressed. Did anyone else notice how easily he move that shell?
Ryan lifts
It's the new anti-grav shell lift, recently installed in preparation for converting the NJ into a worthy reprise of Space Battleship Yamato.
I think these videos are great! I have learned so much about battleships, now if I can just remember some of it!
The battleship cams are really cool 👀👍
Ships generally burn the thick crude oil in the shipping lanes and way out to sea. But close to land they burn regular diesel fuel so they don't smoke everyone out!
It depends on where in the world you are and what regulations are in place. Certain areas such as Alaska are designated "special areas" under MARPOL annex VI, and in these areas you can only burn diesel. In other parts of the world where rules are less strict, you can burn heavy fuel oil in port.
For more than 50 years, U.S. Navy ships have burned NATO standard F76 naval distillate fuel (also called "Diesel Fuel, Marine"). The Iowa class were converted to burn this fuel when they were reactivated in the 1980s.
Another great video. How many shells did the New Jersey carry, and what was the rate of fire?
Is the radio room operational? The equipment I know from this time is fairly flexible and can be used on the included ham radio bands without issues.
It is operational! We usually use it on Saturdays
...one of my favorite videos. Good information.
Hey here's a question I haven't seen answered recently (might have missed it?) If you're serving on a capital ship inside the armored citadel, and a shell hits the armor near where you're stationed, of course there will be a loud noise. Did those exposed to it lose their hearing? Assuming the armor defeats the projectile, are there other effects that could hurt you? Or are you relatively safe? I'm thinking about shock waves from the detonation migrating through the armor. I already know about splinters coming off the back of the armor, that's generally low risk with the backing, splinter decks and bulkheads designed to catch those before they can do any damage. Are there memoirs from men who had this experience in WW II or WW I?
Ryan, in the video you stated the floor was greased where the main gun rounds were kept so you could slide them over to the hoist. Did the sailors have a problem sipping on it as they moved the rounds?
Also if I remember correctly the main mast was shortened so the NJ could pass under the bridge/s it needed to when it was towed up the Delaware. Has the mast been restored to it's original height?
Have you every made a video on the turret drive mechanism,ie motor and back up systems?
Ryan - Another great video - keep up the good work! One request. One of your scenes on this video was from the central radio room. I'm a ham (WB7OVB) and I was fortunate enough to do some of my original training in the 1960's on old Collins and Hallicrafters sets similar to the sets on the New Jersey. Could you do a segment on the radio facilities on the ship? I'm sure that many of my fellow hams would be interested in specifics, like power, radio watches, operating procedures and range, etc. Thanks again for all you do!
Mark Peterson
Thanks for the explanation of sootblowing on the New Jersey. Do you have any videos showing the inside of the furnace or economizer?
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Since the magazines used chilled water did the chiller ever go down? If so, any idea what the critical temperature was? What was the fail safe procedure for clearing the magazine or cooling it down? It seems the only two alternatives are move it or cool it.
Nice job demonstrating parbuckling the shells. You made it look easy. No doubt it's more, er, "interesting" when the ship is underway and rolling in heavy seas. Do the manuals or placards give a limit for how much pitch or roll the ship can have and still be able to fight the guns?
Suggestion for a video, see if a 360 camera maker would loan you a few of their cameras, a walk through of some spaces that will likely never be opened to the public in 360 view would be very interesting
We tried it, the cameras don't work great in tight spaces like ours. Theres always something in the way.
How did those guys moving them shelves around keep their footing if they're standing on Grease?
That would totally suck the slip and fall and land in one in 2 in of Grease
There was a comment on another video that had the shell deck in it and they said that most guys would stay in one spot and not be moving that much. I believe the same comment also said the grease was more like oil and it wasn't awfully thick
There's no grease. The deck had a very thin coating of light mineral oil on it, like wiping a skillet with an oily paper towel. The deck was a bit slick but those guys weren't walking around much and where they usually stood they had strips of non-skid on the deck.
So burning the crude oil created a maintenance task. What about the salt residue left by distilling the seawater? This was a different boiler and another major maintenance task?
What do the various shell colors indicate? I've see that practice shells are blue. What about black or beige? I'm also surprised the Navy would allow you to keep non-practice shells.
The Navy allows them to have paint...
Usually green and yellow means high explosive, a black body or tip means armor piercing, and white means smoke or illumination...
Does the fire room lead need to notify the OOD every watch when they are going to blow the stack? With 8 boilers how many get blown at a time usually?
The fire room requests permission from the EOOW, the EOOW requests permission from the OOD. There are usually 4 boilers lit for normal steaming, and just 2 at anchor to provide power and hotel services. They were blown one at a time.
question to Battleship New Jersey- where the fire control rooms that were "sealed" because of what the US Navy did "to de-militarized" the ship to enable of it to become a museum ship"? Another question to Battleship New Jersey: are you going to make a You Tube video message when the radar on the 0-13 level is finally "operating on power" ?
When we get the radar fixed, y'all will definitely hear all about it, so stay tuned on that!
As far as your other question, the fire control rooms, I'm not entirely sure what you mean specifically, CEC/CIC/plotting rooms. At any rate, none of them were really "sealed", in fact we've filmed in all three spaces a few times. The navy took some things with them when they left to use in other spaces, but the plotting computers are still there and usable.
@@BattleshipNewJersey I think I meant where the "triggers" to fire the 16 inch gun barrels. Also, when the New Jersey was first built - where " smoke generators" ever installed to " help to lay down smoke " to hide ships from enemy surface ships or not?
The triggers for the guns are in the plotting rooms, we can do more in there, those systems are still in place.b
Assuming this hasn’t been done already, I would love to see the bridge of the ship and learn about the redundancy built in the ship in the event the bridge is destroyed.
I am Interested in what some of the the wiring passages of the New Jersey look like. You can see some video and images of one of the passages of the Texas on the Battleship Texas Foundation Facebook page.
Hey Ryan! Thanks for tackling two of my questions, about the boilers and the parbuckling! I've seen on your Facebook page the daily deck logs, how they mention blowing tubes on all steaming boilers, so now I know how! The image then that I messaged the NJs Facebook page must be the extensive cleaning with people inside.
Pretty crazy how they moved those heavy shells too, using just a rope (and some grease 😅). It's neat to see the shell hoist working too! I wasn't expecting seeing that as well! That's all tied in electrically, right? Being decommissioned, most of the hydraulic systems are probably inoperable, right?
We suspect that image is of a train, not a ship, and a completely different type of system.
The hoist is electric, correct. We have got a lot of the ships non-steam systems working again in some form or another, but certainly not all, and many in modified ways, like this hoist.
5:07 I always had a sneaking suspicion that Ryan had superhuman abilities.
Who was surprised when he just moved the shell with his hands? I thought that was a proper one, in fact, instead I'm just going to believe that he's just got superhuman strength
A Navy vet I work with claims if you wanted revenge or to just mess with someone onboard you'd slip some super purified feedwater into their coffee. It's so pure it acts like a laxative and the victim would be making head calls quite frequently for a few hours.
TS: Pure water will not act that way. After all, people buy distilled water for drinking without problems. Feedwater that has been treated with certain chemicals used to prevent scaling will probably make someone ill. BTW, I"ve never heard of doing such a thing to a shipmate. USNR-ret'd.
you are close... for certain sailors, Phenolphthalein would have been used to get those results. Why? any range of reasons. i.e. like the guy Was playing with your girlfriend, ripping you off, being a total bogart, lying about an incident to stay out of trouble or perhaps he was just a Brown noser that needed some deckplate training sessions.
Phenolphthalein is normally used for water testing when testing for PH levels.
A question about the shells - I know they're color coded, and blue is inert training (I think-), but what are the other ones? And what does the yellow banding mean?
On military aircraft (I don’t know if it’s the same for ship ammunition)...
Yellow banding means high explosive
Brown banding means rocket propellant
Pink banding is a functional seeker head on a missile
Light green banding is smoke
White banding is illumination
How do sailors keep from getting grease on their shoes while working in the turrets?
How do the turrets get electrical and other services while being able to rotate? What kind of connections are there for power?
Ryan did a video about the catacombs deep in the ship that showed the wiring at the very bottom of the turret.
What was top speed with 1 or 2 boilers down, vs having all 8 up and running?
Normal steaming configuration was 4 boilers, which would allow full speed. Additional boilers were required for flank speed and were sometimes lit for combat conditions.
My question is relative to what AC voltages are being generated and used? I am curious about the power blocks color coded red, whit, and blue with 3 outlets in each color. What are the purposes and in case of being exposed to sea water would they not short out and not be usable?
I believe what you're seeing can be answered here: th-cam.com/video/yeiiHAJUurE/w-d-xo.html
The barrels of the main guns obviously had a powerful hydraulic system to raise/lower them before firing and reloading, how much weight could they (the barrels) lift if used in a 'crane jib' fashion to move something on the deck I wonder. Does anyone know just how powerful the hydraulic system really was, and was a gun barrel ever used in this fashion i.e. in an emergency to lift something onto the ship. Always a fascinating channel to watch.
The guns were raised and lowered by screws, and since the gun barrels weighed about 100 tons each, they could easily lift a couple extra tons. I saw this done a couple times. The first time it was proposed, the weapons officer was alarmed with the idea until the math was presented to him.
What is the newer surface radar for that is on top of the bridge? It's the "white" open array antenna.
Its a furuno that the museum put in place. There was one there in the ships period for surface search radar that fed a repeater on the bridge.
Do you have a shop sales ? i cant seem to find anything to buy to help fund you upkeep of this amazing ship
Our gofundme directly supports the ship: gf.me/u/ysdi3a
The ship's store can be found at: www.battleshipnewjersey.org/shop/
Enjoying the videos. Have you made a video showing the elevated flight deck control room added in the 80's above/behind T3?
Thanks
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Hi Ryan, I'm wondering if you might have information on the typical load out of the 16" between AP and HC shells assuming the ship is not on a bombardment mission. Been digging around trying to find that without any success, even navweaps didn't have those particular details (it has more or less everything most people could want about the gun and the shells, just not how many were carried under typical conditions).
Thanks for all the vids; this channel is a treasure trove of great stuff. Hope you and your team are well.
Cheers
Are the WWII radios operational???
DE N2JYG
Sherman NY
Yes they are!
I am curious. Can guests play around with any of the range finders?
They can turn the periscopes, otherwise not really, its mostly electric that we don't energize
Hi Ryan, excellent video. I live near the USS Massachusetts. I've always wondered, are there some things which are not allowed to work; either by the navy or by other authorities? For example, are you not allowed to fire a boiler, or run the directors and a mount on power to demonstrate auto elevation of the barrels?
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Hey uss new Jersey uss iowa says hi and he says hugs and kisses
Is the electornics for the radar (other than the motor) is still onboard / operational? I have seen that radar-like display on the CIC, but afaik that was only a video on a loop playback for simulation. I know, operating the onboard radar would require great amount of power and also proper cooling for the equipment, so that's out of question for a museum. I'm just curious about the state of those systems. Is the navy left those systems in operational condition?
Great videos, btw! :)
The radar is not operational and those screens do just play a video.
You make it look like "Childs Play" moving those 16 inch projectiles.
My God the size of the shells !
They got the lead out
Ryan & the crew @ BB62....If by some terrible accident someone tipped over a 16 inch shell would it have a chance of detonating...
Unlikely, it did happen on ocassion.
It was unlikely but not impossible to tip over a shell because they're bottom-heavy. Detonation was not a risk - the fuses on the shells were armed by a combination of acceleration and spinning that could only be achieved by firing the shell through a rifled gun. The shells were designed to be very safe to handle and store.
That's what I wanted to know... so the ship uses chilled water like a commercial building. I would assume the chillers were water-cooled, meaning sea water was used as condenser water... I would like a more in-depth view of the different HVAC systems... I'm a building automation technician with about 20 years in the HVAC industry...
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Watertight bulkheads must have been cut into _after_ the INSURV inspections.
Where are the live cam links?
Battleshipcams.com sorry for not including it!
@@BattleshipNewJersey Dockside Condos SS New Jersey View ,the cam needs to be turned to the left to see the whole ship please, thank you :)
The ammunition storage and handling systems are insane. There is little protection from sympathetic detonation of multiple shells. The fact that no-one else had another system does not make it any less crazy.
The shells were designed to be practically impossible to detonate accidentally. Like most modern artillery shells, they were equipped with a fuze which was armed by the combination of sharp acceleration and rotation when fired through a rifled gun barrel, with a mechanical time delay to ensure the shell was clear of the muzzle when it armed. You could literally drop them from several stories up onto concrete and they would not explode. They were very safe to handle and store.
Couldn’t imagine doing that on the high seas taking enemy fire
Who needs shell handling equipment just get ryan to chuck them in there
They should just move the shells with their hands like you did Ryan
I still wonder on how well the parbuckling system worked in rougher conditions. It seems some of the other countries BBs had more positive ways of handling rounds where the chances of a shell getting away is much less.
Noooooo. 5 days is too long to wait 😅
It seems crazy that you are not allowed to bring the ship up on power to keep things working. Why not allow the boilers to be lit once a month and exercise each engine keeping the steam turbines running. I don’t understand how they can be committed to decay this way.
Because they're extremely dangerous
Retire carbiner and belt please
Nice video. I had one question answered. Why does the audio suck in your videos? Thanks! Looking forward to your full tour of No 2 turret!!!!!! Growing up, I had a close much older friend that had served about a year aboard USS Tennessee. One bright Sunday morning he was at his combat station in turret No 2. He got the purple heart for that action. Long story!
Battleships are made of steel and just not great environments to film in. Add the loud AC thats needed to keep such strange setups cool, and its always going to be kinda crummy audio quality. We're doing the best we can!
I have a question: What are the top secrets?
From Kim Jong-Un. Aged 7 and three quarters
I don't want to watch the radar turn. I'd like to see what it could see.
sadly the FCC would have a lot of objections to running a naval radar at full transmit power in the harbor...
I remember in a tour aboard USS Salem in Fore River, MA we did a tour of the radar room and the guide said that some of the ship veterans had gotten the system working early in its life as a museum ship and fires it up and promptly shut down Logan Airport.... so yeah, FCC and FAA would both have some serious issues with that. It would be fun though.....
Minerals don't evaporate out of water, the water is distilled and evaporated. If what Ryan says is true that minerals evaporate it would rain mud and rocks on Earth, which is just not true.
you need to be wearing a mic
He is, this just happens to be one of the earliest compartments for AC which means a very loud blower, plus all of the electrical equipment that buzzes. Battleships are not sound friendly, unfortunately.
@@BattleshipNewJersey he sounded so distant it didn't seem like it
This guy reminds me of my 9 year old son trying to explain his science project.
I think he does rather well explaining without que cards and going by memory with some impressive knowledge about the ship. Why don't you make a video about something you're passionate about explaining things from memory, post it, and let Ryan critique it.
We try and answer questions in a simple manor for folks. Is there something you'd like us to elaborate on?
That's really rude, and unwelcome. Keep in mind this is a professional historian that is mindful of his audience and presenting with a general audience in mind. If Ryan were giving a talk to a group of sailors who served aboard, or at a gathering of curators or historians, his delivery would be different. It's part of what makes the channel so successful. Making the information accessible to a general audience is essential.