The titles the museum uses for this channel keep making me think of this as the coolest DIY channel possible. Plus the fact Ryan keeps the Battleship reactivation for alien invasion in the back of his head is always awesome for military history geeks who are also sci-fi geeks like me. Admittedly I'd hope such a scenario would be less cheesy.
We need a test. *points at New Jersey and runs* Teams of men and tools start walking toward New Jersey, Barge with a pile of supplies pulls up next to the dry dock, no one lifts the tarps that cover what the barge carries. Ryan walks out, signs a slip of paper handed him by the barge's officer.
I think something that's grossly underestimated is if this ship was called to active service again, the amount of people that would willingly volunteer to get her fighting fit. That being said, the museum can also use that energy
If the aliens attack in the next two months at least NJ is in drydock and ready to have the crews start working on her ASAP. Always the first to respond with Firepower for Freedom!
ROFLMAO....Gotta keep'em at phase one of the invasion for the two years + that it'll take to fix just the basic problems so she'll do Anything...Love the "Bite" you put in your comment !
Those are resources better spent making our nuclear ICBMs capable of striking orbital targets. Or getting some 16" artillery pieces onto barges or trains.
I booked my trip to see her when she’s in dry dock! It’s weird seeing her in a different spot, but at Paulsboro it looks like she’s ready for deployment!
Well, I guess we will have to add new fuel plumbing to the list of stuff to do before the aliens attack. I know we are gonna need her then...thanks for the updates Ryan, looking forward to the next livestream!
Ryan of the Battleship USS New Jersey ( BB-62) Museum and Memorial- I’m glad to hear that you and the rest of the staff are able to go through this process of dry docking with the lessons learned from when the New Jersey’s sister ship, Battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) dry docking back in 2019) as well from the dry docking of the Battleship USS Texas (BB-35) as well.
During my career I can remember three incidents resulting in flooded compartments involving blasting . A great explanation by Ryan of the process and why the decisions about it have been made .I will be watching on the 27th , All the best hope the weather gets better for you .
cant wait to see you guys put the ship on the blocks and get some really high quality photos of her, the old stuff from the last drydock was more of an afterthought
Great work .. It's nice to see her get the help all museum ships run into needing ! She marks a Big shift in all the world's Navies on how to Reorganize their fleets to handle all the NEW ways of fighting that became necessary to combat the new hardware/weapons/info SO different than anything faced before or even planned for ! Love how so many folks think that with some "minor" work she'll be back in "fighting trim" ...LOL...Cheaper And easier to build a new ship that can have all the newest items designed into it for maximum usefulness . Love those old Battleships but their time has come and gone . They Serve a new purpose now , and it's a good one ,To Educate !
Each of these dry docking videos I watch, I'm reminded of something my Dad (retired Army, 22 years) used to say: "Took more planning than Eisenhower did for D-Day".
We have watched you discuss this for over a year... Ryan, if ever there was a life-defining task, this is it. My favorite part? Knowing the pride and awful sense of purpose that must be yours, if our being a so tiny part of this feels so significant. So few people are so well positioned as you are to do something so significant and impactful in their lives. Your personal sense of awe in her presence is clear, as she should be held in, so another like you will come one day.
As you said Ryan, all the other ship museums are helping out where they can with what worked for them as well as an experienced watering / dewatering crew. You'll be able to take a short breath when you actually see her setting ON the keel blocks. Even with the best of maintenance schedules, particularly with the rotted out fuel lines that you've discovered, you'll never catch up with them. One note of experiences I had in the Army, the vehicles that "never" or rarely left the motor pool (put to sea in this case) were the ones that constantly had to be worked on to keep running and those that were the "supply" or run-around vehicles used every day hardly ever broke down. Way too many systems aboard that would need a complete overhaul in order to be seaworthy again, fuel, various rates(?) grades of steam lines, the valves, potable, grey and black water . . . . . It'll be easier (and cheaper) to just keep the hull sealed up (sea chest blanks) and keep her floating and living on the way she's been doing since arriving in Camden
You should absolutely upload the entire rainy video that you showed a clip of. With sound if it has it. Storm videos are great and most of them don't even feature such a magnificent backdrop as the Battleship New Jersey.
“When the aliens attack…” was that a battleship movie reference?😂 That movie was so cheesy but was the reason I became obsessed with Iowa class ships as a kid
@@dave4882 th-cam.com/video/W72oCtsHrmg/w-d-xo.html Some really nice shots of the filming showing BB63. Very odd that North Carolina Museum was given credit, maybe their advisor/expert was from there?
When all the tanks are filled with water ,how much weight does the tanks take up from the total tonnage of the ship? This ship must take 100s of people to help run or operate just as a museum. I'm so impressed in all the hard work that gets done to preserve her. Thanks to everyone helping on Battleship New jersey
In the words of Neil Young…Rust Never Sleeps..😂 If she had to be put back in service may have to refit her as a fuel cell electric version…just a thought. Great work Ryan! Enjoying the dry docking videos!
Would love to see a deep dive on how the blocks are positioned based on load bearing structure. Then how the ship is precisely positioned over the blocks.
Ryan - if the museum could get it's hands on some spare 16" rounds... like Iowa is currently in process of striking down.,, and place them in turret 1 - that would help get the bow in better trim (not the full amount), would be cool as can be and would not pose the chance of leakage/corrosion. If that means electric service upgrades to shore power so the turrets can move to the loading position - that would not be a bad thing either. A go fund me might be in order :-). Thanks for caring for the Battleship.
Having already driven from Montreal to watch the move from the Spirit of Philadelphia, the part of the project I’m now most looking forward to is my dry dock tour in late April!
My favorite part about the videos the past few days have been getting YOUR PERSPECTIVE BEFORE THE NEWS REPORTS IT - GREAT JOB! Before work this morning on ABC they were about a day late announcing New Jersey was moving, I couldn't help but chuckle lol.
@7:07 Remember the scene at the end of "Back To The Future 2" when Doc says, "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!"? "Fuel oil? When we modernize New Jersey with a nuclear powerplant, we won't need fuel oil."
Ryan did a video (several years ago) where he gave reasons for not using nuclear power on battleships. Nuclear equipment would not hold up well during battle damage.
@@SomeRandomHuman717 Good point. But I don't see nuclear subs slugging it out with other surface ships. There's also some major concerns a nuclear power plant on a battleship could withstand the shockwave of just firing the `16 guns. Battleships are designed to take as much damage as they can 'dish-out'. In addition, it's not worth the cost to cut through the armored deck even to just install new/updated engines. But I get your sentiment.
I love hearing about all the "little stuff" like how you fill the tanks to ballast the ship, and the wild card stuff that pops up like the water spilling into the other tanks rather then filling one then moving to the next. Or finding out about the fuel lines being what sounds like so us-useable and the steps it would take to repair if that was a option/why it is not a option..... Oh also I told my friend who is a travel agent about the dry-dock tours and how it is a rare thing to see the underside of a Iowa class ship and about being a deck owner. I hope she can get some trips to the city and have it as a point of interest to help you guys out with a bit more revenue.
The title of this video reminded me of a scene from The Simpsons: "Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such instructional videos as 'Mothballing Your Battleship'..." 😆
Well when the aliens attack you have to play "Thunderstruck" Then everything works. You have fuel & ammo on-board. You get boilers lit & have steam up in practically seconds. Not to mention the people on hand who actually know how to do these things & get underway.
What part am i looking forward to ? Easy to see the old lady do what she was designed to do. Move gracefully cutting through the water in magnificent glory. Granted it'll be under tug power and not her own but still........
I work on museum aircraft, so its not like the foundation i work on has to be kept afloat, but I love making comparisons between what you guys are doing and how we handle our larger planes. My museum likes to use as much of the original equipment as possible for most tasks that involve something simple like power or hydraulics, but as you guys mention with your fuel oil transfer lines, its not that easy lol. Hopefully that communication between those holds isnt gonna be an issue!
"Sweating" or condensation "through the hull" is really just condensation on the hull from moisture in the environment. Water takes a lot more energy to change temperature than air , and so a big volume of water in a container overnight will assume ambient temperature. As the day progresses, the air warms up much faster than the water in the container. This warmer air has a higher capacity for water vapor; the higher a given environment's relative humidity, the warmer its 'dew point' gets, or the temperature at which water will simply condense out of suspension. Once the dew point rises above the temperature of this container's surface, that's when condensation occurs. In fact, this will often happen with most any surface or material that isn't in direct sunlight - the direct radiant heat from the sun will outpace the convective air heating, but grass or steel or hemp or glass can very easily collect condensation if it's kept out of direct sunlight on sunny days near bodies of water where the local relative humidity will be high.
Okay, you are doing what I guessed would be necessary. Flood as needed to drydock, then pump out out the water. And reverse to refloat and exit the drydock.
Which part am i looking forward to the most? Following along the whole process, really. I live way too far away to see her in-person, so videos like this are all I get.
You could try Rain-X on the camera lens. I have used it on windshields and bike helmet visors. Rainwater just forms tiny balls that roll off ok even from gravity and really well in natural wind or from a moving vehicle.
Speaking of tidal differences. Maines Bay of Fundy has a 26-foot tidal change. I was on USS Hawes FFG-59 and went for a port visit, at high tide we left from the flight deck, at Low tide we left from the 03 level. There were times when the brow would be secured due to the angles.
I was wondering if you are filtering the water from the river to keep your tanks clean and lessen the work of cleaning the tanks in the future. After all you don’t have a crew of boatman’s mates on board to draw from.
We have been taping this process... BUT < it's going to be the thing for the project. I can't wait for the next random thing to happen while trying to create the next time-lapse.
Love this whole process and how you bring us along for everything. Curious about the time lapse at the end of this video as it looked like the bow rose about 7 feet then started to settle back down.
It's weird seeing her at anchor freely swaying again, (moored would be more apt sorry...) between those umbilical and all and the other shore connections that are permanent i dont really see that too much. It's nice to see, check the time lapse video the lines are the giveaway. ^^ man its cool to see that out of an Iowa or any battlewagon.
Fuel oil and lube oil piping isn’t a big deal to replace with a competent yard. I have been on 4 ships in my career with the Navy, and each yard period we hade the piping hydro tested and foumd issues. Especially when fuel tanks had to be ballasted to keep the ship on an even keel while we used the fuel.
Heck, I learned a lot today about things I had never thought about. Never knew the ship (and others?) were ballasted stern down. Makes sense though. It's sad that with even nothing in the tanks, the ship still corrodes way down there.
To think that I walked her decks so long ago. I would like to shout out to one of my ex employees and he was stationed on the Jersey till she was decommissioned. Chris K. We did a couple turret craws back in the day, with ole Jimmy.
Hi Ryan just been watching an old video about the keel of the ship. An a question popped into my head. On these older vessels how much condensation do you get in the lower decks? Obviously I don't mean water ingress. I mean actual condensation from changing air and water temperatures. Is it just damp in the air? Do the bulkheads feel wet to touch? Or isn't it much of a problem. You are soon going to be having work done low down in the hull. Condensation causes corrosion, so I wondered how much of a problem it will be?
It does happen in some places. It's definitely damp on some surfaces in some areas. I don't know how to quantify it but its not enough we have corrosion concerns just yet.
Looking forward to the Navy coming to its senses and reactivating the ship! (haha...kinda) ... Great to see her getting closer bit-by-bit to her birthplace.
I previously missed this video. I was wondering why the ship isn't ballasted so she is level in the water. I would have thought that there are plenty of ways to keep corrosion in check, such as rust inhibitors, anodes or an electrical system. Obviously the tanks would have to be tight for that to even be a consideration...
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One of my favorite parts of watching this project is hearing how the different museum ships are working together and sharing information.
One Fleet…
(…but also, Gun Club!)
The fuel oil transfer pipes being swiss cheese was a problem during the 80's iirc according to the CHENG documents I have.
The titles the museum uses for this channel keep making me think of this as the coolest DIY channel possible.
Plus the fact Ryan keeps the Battleship reactivation for alien invasion in the back of his head is always awesome for military history geeks who are also sci-fi geeks like me. Admittedly I'd hope such a scenario would be less cheesy.
I live in Texas, where our beloved Old T was just put out of dry dock. Can't wait to hear more news about this wonderful ship's condition soon!
I am not sure why the foundation has done a poor job reporting on the progress of the Texas.
BB Texas does not have Ryan and Libby!
Seriously, though, Texas does a good job.
Nothing good has ever come from tejus. Third world s hole.
@@chrisb9960what is your definition of good reporting? BTF puts out extremely detailed updates pretty much daily regarding process.
@@matthewmeador9565 Their last video was 2 weeks ago. Before that it was 6 months and the one before that was 9 months.
As a pipefitter welder it isn't a show stopper we can handle it just point and get out of the way.
Can see ya'll walking up to the dock and going" Where and how many and move we got work to do " Ryan: Shocked pikachu face
Now we know who to call when the Aliens attack and we need to get the four Iowa's moving again with a quickness!!
We need a test.
*points at New Jersey and runs*
Teams of men and tools start walking toward New Jersey, Barge with a pile of supplies pulls up next to the dry dock, no one lifts the tarps that cover what the barge carries.
Ryan walks out, signs a slip of paper handed him by the barge's officer.
I think something that's grossly underestimated is if this ship was called to active service again, the amount of people that would willingly volunteer to get her fighting fit.
That being said, the museum can also use that energy
If we're gonna get her fighting fit can we tour around the world and actually do some fighting too? I'm a canadian and I'm not sorry@@julieenslow5915
If the aliens attack in the next two months at least NJ is in drydock and ready to have the crews start working on her ASAP. Always the first to respond with Firepower for Freedom!
ROFLMAO....Gotta keep'em at phase one of the invasion for the two years + that it'll take to fix just the basic problems so she'll do Anything...Love the "Bite" you put in your comment !
Those are resources better spent making our nuclear ICBMs capable of striking orbital targets. Or getting some 16" artillery pieces onto barges or trains.
That last minute of this clip was Awesome!!! BB "62 in your face!"
I have to say, that was some fine looking deck as the camera followed the ballast line around the 8 minute mark.
It is so nice. We have the best deck team.
I booked my trip to see her when she’s in dry dock! It’s weird seeing her in a different spot, but at Paulsboro it looks like she’s ready for deployment!
Well, I guess we will have to add new fuel plumbing to the list of stuff to do before the aliens attack. I know we are gonna need her then...thanks for the updates Ryan, looking forward to the next livestream!
Ryan of the Battleship USS New Jersey ( BB-62) Museum and Memorial- I’m glad to hear that you and the rest of the staff are able to go through this process of dry docking with the lessons learned from when the New Jersey’s sister ship, Battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) dry docking back in 2019) as well from the dry docking of the Battleship USS Texas (BB-35) as well.
During my career I can remember three incidents resulting in flooded compartments involving blasting . A great explanation by Ryan of the process and why the decisions about it have been made .I will be watching on the 27th , All the best hope the weather gets better for you .
Ballasting - I.hate spellcheckers, Sorry.
I can’t wait to see her in dry dock again. See you April 27 Ryan!
cant wait to see you guys put the ship on the blocks and get some really high quality photos of her, the old stuff from the last drydock was more of an afterthought
Ryan although the rain did blur out a lot you could still the big #62 on the ship go down in relation to the pier, so not all was lost.good work!
I'm looking forward to seeing the new paint before she is refloated.
Great work .. It's nice to see her get the help all museum ships run into needing ! She marks a Big shift in all the world's Navies on how to Reorganize their fleets to handle all the NEW ways of fighting that became necessary to combat the new hardware/weapons/info SO different than anything faced before or even planned for ! Love how so many folks think that with some "minor" work she'll be back in "fighting trim" ...LOL...Cheaper And easier to build a new ship that can have all the newest items designed into it for maximum usefulness . Love those old Battleships but their time has come and gone . They Serve a new purpose now , and it's a good one ,To Educate !
Knowledge is important and shared knowledge is priceless. It helps you to keep costs down
Each of these dry docking videos I watch, I'm reminded of something my Dad (retired Army, 22 years) used to say: "Took more planning than Eisenhower did for D-Day".
We have watched you discuss this for over a year... Ryan, if ever there was a life-defining task, this is it. My favorite part? Knowing the pride and awful sense of purpose that must be yours, if our being a so tiny part of this feels so significant. So few people are so well positioned as you are to do something so significant and impactful in their lives. Your personal sense of awe in her presence is clear, as she should be held in, so another like you will come one day.
Without Ryan and the team, this ship probably wouldn’t be getting the attention she deserves. Thank you Ryan and team for all your hard work.
While Ryan and the team are focused on Big J they are also helping other museum ships and raise the visibility of other museum ships.
When we toured Whisky in Virginia that trim is real it was a heck of a hike to get to the nose of that battle wagon
Yes, sir, I have taken that walk....
As you said Ryan, all the other ship museums are helping out where they can with what worked for them as well as an experienced watering / dewatering crew. You'll be able to take a short breath when you actually see her setting ON the keel blocks. Even with the best of maintenance schedules, particularly with the rotted out fuel lines that you've discovered, you'll never catch up with them. One note of experiences I had in the Army, the vehicles that "never" or rarely left the motor pool (put to sea in this case) were the ones that constantly had to be worked on to keep running and those that were the "supply" or run-around vehicles used every day hardly ever broke down. Way too many systems aboard that would need a complete overhaul in order to be seaworthy again, fuel, various rates(?) grades of steam lines, the valves, potable, grey and black water . . . . . It'll be easier (and cheaper) to just keep the hull sealed up (sea chest blanks) and keep her floating and living on the way she's been doing since arriving in Camden
You should absolutely upload the entire rainy video that you showed a clip of. With sound if it has it. Storm videos are great and most of them don't even feature such a magnificent backdrop as the Battleship New Jersey.
When the aliens attack!!! That was funny 🤣🤣🤣
It makes sense that 82 year old pipes and valves would need to be replaced lol
“When the aliens attack…” was that a battleship movie reference?😂 That movie was so cheesy but was the reason I became obsessed with Iowa class ships as a kid
Wasn't filmed on an Iowa, just fyi....lol
@@dave4882 It was the USS Missouri BB63 wasn't it? If so then it was filmed on a Iowa.
@1300BlueStar While it may have been set on the MO, if I remember correctly, the North Carolina Museum was given thanks in the credits.
@@dave4882 th-cam.com/video/W72oCtsHrmg/w-d-xo.html Some really nice shots of the filming showing BB63. Very odd that North Carolina Museum was given credit, maybe their advisor/expert was from there?
@@dave4882 I think they towed Missouri out to open waters after her 2009 drydock period to shoot some of the scenes of this movie
When all the tanks are filled with water ,how much weight does the tanks take up from the total tonnage of the ship? This ship must take 100s of people to help run or operate just as a museum. I'm so impressed in all the hard work that gets done to preserve her. Thanks to everyone helping on Battleship New jersey
Great explication on shedding water.
Did NOT know you had to ballast to come OFF the blocks
Oh thank god. I currently own a battleship and need help filling it with ballast when I take it into drydock. This is very helpful.
Excited to learn what shape the hull is in
Look at that TEAK!! WOW!!
In the words of Neil Young…Rust Never Sleeps..😂
If she had to be put back in service may have to refit her as a fuel cell electric version…just a thought. Great work Ryan! Enjoying the dry docking videos!
Would love to see a deep dive on how the blocks are positioned based on load bearing structure. Then how the ship is precisely positioned over the blocks.
I'm looking forward to seeing what the aft packing on the propeller shafts looks like.
Ryan - if the museum could get it's hands on some spare 16" rounds... like Iowa is currently in process of striking down.,, and place them in turret 1 - that would help get the bow in better trim (not the full amount), would be cool as can be and would not pose the chance of leakage/corrosion. If that means electric service upgrades to shore power so the turrets can move to the loading position - that would not be a bad thing either. A go fund me might be in order :-). Thanks for caring for the Battleship.
Having already driven from Montreal to watch the move from the Spirit of Philadelphia, the part of the project I’m now most looking forward to is my dry dock tour in late April!
And, if I can, coming back down for the triumphant return!
My favorite part about the videos the past few days have been getting YOUR PERSPECTIVE BEFORE THE NEWS REPORTS IT - GREAT JOB! Before work this morning on ABC they were about a day late announcing New Jersey was moving, I couldn't help but chuckle lol.
@7:07 Remember the scene at the end of "Back To The Future 2" when Doc says, "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!"? "Fuel oil? When we modernize New Jersey with a nuclear powerplant, we won't need fuel oil."
Ryan did a video (several years ago) where he gave reasons for not using nuclear power on battleships. Nuclear equipment would not hold up well during battle damage.
@@brucemccall6539 I do recall that video but I am not convinced. Wouldn't the same concerns then apply to any nuclear powered ship or sub?
@@SomeRandomHuman717 Good point. But I don't see nuclear subs slugging it out with other surface ships. There's also some major concerns a nuclear power plant on a battleship could withstand the shockwave of just firing the `16 guns. Battleships are designed to take as much damage as they can 'dish-out'. In addition, it's not worth the cost to cut through the armored deck even to just install new/updated engines. But I get your sentiment.
The navy would probably want to convert her to gas turbines if new jersey was ever to be reactivated.
I love hearing about all the "little stuff" like how you fill the tanks to ballast the ship, and the wild card stuff that pops up like the water spilling into the other tanks rather then filling one then moving to the next. Or finding out about the fuel lines being what sounds like so us-useable and the steps it would take to repair if that was a option/why it is not a option..... Oh also I told my friend who is a travel agent about the dry-dock tours and how it is a rare thing to see the underside of a Iowa class ship and about being a deck owner. I hope she can get some trips to the city and have it as a point of interest to help you guys out with a bit more revenue.
The title of this video reminded me of a scene from The Simpsons:
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such instructional videos as 'Mothballing Your Battleship'..." 😆
Got myself a ticket for the Dry Dock tour. Sadly couldn’t fork the cash for a tour with Ryan but it will still be cool af
I'm looking forward to the Drydock tour!
definitely excited to see her on blocks, when my ship was on blocks I was shocked at just the sheer SIZE of everything as I walked under.
I'm loving the entire process, in fact I hope to see more unusual finds along the w a y.
Thank you for your work Ryan.
Well when the aliens attack you have to play "Thunderstruck" Then everything works. You have fuel & ammo on-board. You get boilers lit & have steam up in practically seconds. Not to mention the people on hand who actually know how to do these things & get underway.
What part am i looking forward to ? Easy to see the old lady do what she was designed to do. Move gracefully cutting through the water in magnificent glory. Granted it'll be under tug power and not her own but still........
Thank you so much for the ongoing narratives!
I work on museum aircraft, so its not like the foundation i work on has to be kept afloat, but I love making comparisons between what you guys are doing and how we handle our larger planes. My museum likes to use as much of the original equipment as possible for most tasks that involve something simple like power or hydraulics, but as you guys mention with your fuel oil transfer lines, its not that easy lol. Hopefully that communication between those holds isnt gonna be an issue!
What an impressive rig and story!
"Sweating" or condensation "through the hull" is really just condensation on the hull from moisture in the environment. Water takes a lot more energy to change temperature than air , and so a big volume of water in a container overnight will assume ambient temperature. As the day progresses, the air warms up much faster than the water in the container. This warmer air has a higher capacity for water vapor; the higher a given environment's relative humidity, the warmer its 'dew point' gets, or the temperature at which water will simply condense out of suspension. Once the dew point rises above the temperature of this container's surface, that's when condensation occurs.
In fact, this will often happen with most any surface or material that isn't in direct sunlight - the direct radiant heat from the sun will outpace the convective air heating, but grass or steel or hemp or glass can very easily collect condensation if it's kept out of direct sunlight on sunny days near bodies of water where the local relative humidity will be high.
Imagine we had the Bismarck in the dock at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg!! 🚢
Thanks Ryan for the video 😊
Okay, you are doing what I guessed would be necessary. Flood as needed to drydock, then pump out out the water. And reverse to refloat and exit the drydock.
That is an amazing amount of water and an insanely large weight.
It's crazy to see her moving freely while moored. She hasn't done that for years
Which part am i looking forward to the most? Following along the whole process, really. I live way too far away to see her in-person, so videos like this are all I get.
Two important trim and stability terms come to play here. MT1 and TPI. Moment to Trim 1" and Tons Per Inch Immersion.
Thanks for the update, Ryan. I’ve been sharing with all of us who’ve been aboard and a bunch of prior-USN folks. Stay safe.
You could try Rain-X on the camera lens. I have used it on windshields and bike helmet visors. Rainwater just forms tiny balls that roll off ok even from gravity and really well in natural wind or from a moving vehicle.
looking forward to being there in May. want to see the Phat bottom girl from the underside.
so Wise , Thank You .
Using river water, you going to have a layer of silt once the tanks are pumped dry.
Guess ryan and the volunteers will have some work to do.
Read the title of this video as "Battleshipping your battleship".
Time for coffee.
Speaking of tidal differences. Maines Bay of Fundy has a 26-foot tidal change. I was on USS Hawes FFG-59 and went for a port visit, at high tide we left from the flight deck, at Low tide we left from the 03 level. There were times when the brow would be secured due to the angles.
I was wondering if you are filtering the water from the river to keep your tanks clean and lessen the work of cleaning the tanks in the future. After all you don’t have a crew of boatman’s mates on board to draw from.
While New Jersey is away, will you be doing any dredging, pier repair or clean up at your normal berth?
No dredging, we've got a fish spawning thing happening
So exciting!! Thanks for sharing each step of the project!!
One of my concerns would be leaking tanks. Sounds like they have been well-maintained.
Got so caught up in the excitment of the move that i forgot the whole point was to paint it :P shes going to look great!
We have been taping this process... BUT < it's going to be the thing for the project. I can't wait for the next random thing to happen while trying to create the next time-lapse.
First geese then rain. Always gonna be something.
When given the chance in drydock a video inside a ballast tank would be pretty cool to see
Love this whole process and how you bring us along for everything. Curious about the time lapse at the end of this video as it looked like the bow rose about 7 feet then started to settle back down.
Tides
@BattleshipNewJersey thanks, didn't realize there was that much tidal action there.
At least you didn't get 2 feet of snow like we did around here.
Question - Why was the Conrail painted locomotive sitting at Paulsboro right next to where you docked?
Maybe power supply....
What am I most looking forward to? Getting back to the normal berth so Ryan and the rest of the crew can get some sleep.
Thank you
Is the distance aft from the skegs to the boot stripe waterline the same as the bow from the bottom to the boot stripe waterline?
Very Interesting. Pity about the fuel pipes.
It's weird seeing her at anchor freely swaying again, (moored would be more apt sorry...) between those umbilical and all and the other shore connections that are permanent i dont really see that too much. It's nice to see, check the time lapse video the lines are the giveaway. ^^ man its cool to see that out of an Iowa or any battlewagon.
When the ship was in service and needed dry dock, is that what they Navy did--pump water into the fuel tanks?
Fuel oil and lube oil piping isn’t a big deal to replace with a competent yard. I have been on 4 ships in my career with the Navy, and each yard period we hade the piping hydro tested and foumd issues. Especially when fuel tanks had to be ballasted to keep the ship on an even keel while we used the fuel.
Heck, I learned a lot today about things I had never thought about. Never knew the ship (and others?) were ballasted stern down. Makes sense though. It's sad that with even nothing in the tanks, the ship still corrodes way down there.
To think that I walked her decks so long ago. I would like to shout out to one of my ex employees and he was stationed on the Jersey till she was decommissioned. Chris K. We did a couple turret craws back in the day, with ole Jimmy.
Hi Ryan just been watching an old video about the keel of the ship. An a question popped into my head. On these older vessels how much condensation do you get in the lower decks? Obviously I don't mean water ingress. I mean actual condensation from changing air and water temperatures. Is it just damp in the air? Do the bulkheads feel wet to touch? Or isn't it much of a problem. You are soon going to be having work done low down in the hull. Condensation causes corrosion, so I wondered how much of a problem it will be?
It does happen in some places. It's definitely damp on some surfaces in some areas. I don't know how to quantify it but its not enough we have corrosion concerns just yet.
@@BattleshipNewJersey no that's a perfect reply. Thank you, good look. If I can get over from the UK I will. Need to see this old lady.
Generally quanitify it curators measurement units@@BattleshipNewJersey
Any idea on what time you're moving the ship into the dry dock tomorrow?
Good luck!!!
That's real neat.
Will there be any Dredging of the existing berth in Camden while the New Jersey is away?
No, we are not able to, there's a fish spawning thing happening. It will have to wait.
When you floated the ship to reposition on the blocks did you take the water out again or?
Love the IOWA CLASS .
Looking forward to the Navy coming to its senses and reactivating the ship! (haha...kinda) ... Great to see her getting closer bit-by-bit to her birthplace.
Is there a plan to wash out tanks after Ballasting/Drydocking? Thinking Brackish/Saltwater on Steel not ideal could cause Rust..
I previously missed this video. I was wondering why the ship isn't ballasted so she is level in the water. I would have thought that there are plenty of ways to keep corrosion in check, such as rust inhibitors, anodes or an electrical system. Obviously the tanks would have to be tight for that to even be a consideration...
At the end of the video in the time lapse, the panels that look dented is that normal or is it just discoloration
When you bump do you need to re ballast? 7:25 p.m. Pacific.
English please.
love to see it
Don't worry about those leaking fuel lines. We could all that fixed up before 'Thunderstruck' ends.
When you say 'river water', is it fresh or salty where you are now?