An engineering marvel for the time it was built! The electronics and avionics to operate the ship by itself is mind blowing! The USS North Carolina tour is well worth the time for anyone interested in engineering or manufacturing!
Several years ago we toured the North Carolina, most of it anyway as one of our group didn't want to continue. We missed the forward turrets and whatever was up in the bow. It was awesome of the various stations, berthing, both Captains cabins, galley, and engine room, medical, plots, and such. I read here where some complained about the various modifications made to her, hey she's now a museum ship never again will she see the open seas, these modifications and cutouts were made so that most anyone could access the parts of the ship that were otherwise inaccessible. I would love to return and tour her again seeing those areas we missed and would love to see some of the other ships that have been saved and now on display.
I think you did a great job on this video, I especially enjoyed being able to read the info plaques posted along the tour route. Thanks for taking the time!!
the two and things i hate about museum ships. One, they alter the ship for museum purposes (cutting barbettes for entrance, adding stairs that were not originally there), along with stripping "non important" rooms to add museum bullshit items, which potentially can piss a vet off because that may have been their battlestation in the past. The second is that they constantly give the excuse that spaces are too dangerous, ladders to high, stairs to narrow, corridors too narrow. That is horse shit. People my age used to navigate those corridors, climb those ladders, use those stairs, i want to experience life how THEY did? Sure ill sign a waiver, ill wear a hard hat, ill wear steel toed boots, but there is no real reason why i cannot climb into a 16 inch gun pit, down tall 6 levels of the rotating structure, just because it is "unsafe". THere should be a tour optional for ONLY the hardcore tourists, where they are permitted into rooms that are closed off, ladders that would NEVER be allowed to be climbed, engine rooms, pump rooms, fire control directors, mast tops (excluding the actual exterior of the tower mast) and other cool and interesting places that, contrary to the museum foundations beliefs, will NEVER be opened to the general public.
An engineering marvel for the time it was built! The electronics and avionics to operate the ship by itself is mind blowing! The USS North Carolina tour is well worth the time for anyone interested in engineering or manufacturing!
Several years ago we toured the North Carolina, most of it anyway as one of our group didn't want to continue. We missed the forward turrets and whatever was up in the bow. It was awesome of the various stations, berthing, both Captains cabins, galley, and engine room, medical, plots, and such. I read here where some complained about the various modifications made to her, hey she's now a museum ship never again will she see the open seas, these modifications and cutouts were made so that most anyone could access the parts of the ship that were otherwise inaccessible. I would love to return and tour her again seeing those areas we missed and would love to see some of the other ships that have been saved and now on display.
I think you did a great job on this video, I especially enjoyed being able to read the info plaques posted along the tour route. Thanks for taking the time!!
I agree with the previous comment. However it was a good sneak preview of what it's was all about below the decks of these monster battle wagons.
Great vid!
@Robkat3751 Next time I go, i'll take a slower, more detailed video. I was mostly trying out a new camera on this one.
the two and things i hate about museum ships. One, they alter the ship for museum purposes (cutting barbettes for entrance, adding stairs that were not originally there), along with stripping "non important" rooms to add museum bullshit items, which potentially can piss a vet off because that may have been their battlestation in the past. The second is that they constantly give the excuse that spaces are too dangerous, ladders to high, stairs to narrow, corridors too narrow. That is horse shit. People my age used to navigate those corridors, climb those ladders, use those stairs, i want to experience life how THEY did? Sure ill sign a waiver, ill wear a hard hat, ill wear steel toed boots, but there is no real reason why i cannot climb into a 16 inch gun pit, down tall 6 levels of the rotating structure, just because it is "unsafe". THere should be a tour optional for ONLY the hardcore tourists, where they are permitted into rooms that are closed off, ladders that would NEVER be allowed to be climbed, engine rooms, pump rooms, fire control directors, mast tops (excluding the actual exterior of the tower mast) and other cool and interesting places that, contrary to the museum foundations beliefs, will NEVER be opened to the general public.
a video camera is not a "Point-and-Shoot" you must hold the camera steady, aimed at asubject to give the viewer the chance to see what you have shot.