USS Washington says hold my moonshine. Look up the references that USS Washington had a still and that it supplied moonshine during the battle of Guadalcanal. I believe I saw that story in at least a few accounts of Washington’s actions at Guadalcanal. A sea story? Maybe, but hilarious either way.
Back in 1972 my parents took me and my two younger brothers to see the USS North Carolina and I remember it like yesterday-in the evening they had a presentation about the ship and some of the action she had seen 👍
This was the first of many museum warships that I've dragged my wife to. We liked the white silhouettes that they have illustrating how men stood in the cramped and unergonomic spaces. They illustrated the point while being less distracting (and probably a lot cheaper to buy and keep in good order) than mannequins. I was also excited to see the cross on the temporary mess deck altar. As shown, it is rigged for a Catholic mass, with the figure of Christ showing. However, the rear side is also decorated, so that it can be turned around and become a regular cross for a Protestant service.
My great uncle served on Washington from cradle to grave. He had some great stories to tell especially concerning the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal when they sank IJN Kirishima
I will never understand why they scrap the Washington she saved yhe newest ship at that time the south Dakota the Washington didn't just sink the ijn kerishama she destroyed it tore it to pieces at almost point blank range
I have quite a few memories of sitting on those mess stools... but I was never in the navy. I was in elementary school! Our cafeteria was fitted with surplus seating from the Navy, the only difference I can see is that our seats were wood, but the castings look identical.
My father-in law was ex WW2 royal navy ( HMS Slinger) and he said that one of the crews favorite past times was making "Scrumpy" alcoholic cider from apples. Sadly his wife threw out almost all of his photos from those days which is a real shame. Despite our age gap of 50 years we got on really well together, and he was very respectful of the Germans when he said "never forget it took the whole world to defeat them not once, but twice"
If you were issued a hammock in basic but you were assigned a berth on the ship did you have to stow that in your tiny locker for the duration or was there someplace else that they could be put (there must have been hundreds of unused hammocks aboard)?
My stepmother's father served on the North Carolina during WW2. As a kid when we would visit I would beg to hear stories. Thus began my love affair with Battleships..
When I served aboard the USS Shenandoah (AD-26) from 1977- 1980 the movies were shown on the messdecks through a screen. Depending on where you sat, you may end up watching the movie backwards, don't know any other terms to describe. Quite an experience.
My dad caught a ride from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wickes class destroyer because they wouldn't send him by train to Jacksonville for duty and the ship was making a port call in Miami then onto Cuba. They would not even let him pay his own way. There were about 15 guys in transit to Florida that caught the ship. By the third day, they were hanging their hammocks on the weather deck because it was way too hot to sleep inside. He told me that in the head there was a seawater trough that had wooden seats and there was no hot water, you would get a bucket of water and open a steam valve and hang the bucket to heat the water up. He said that there were only a few sinks but there were mirrors and you hung the bucket and then used a straight razor to shave.
"Aces" and Cribbage were the thing to do when I was in, except I didn't do either, I was mostly a reader. Having the fixed table and chairs was a blessing on small ships. Now in rough seas you only had to worry about keeping your tray and stuff from sliding off the table and not the whole table and chairs sliding across the mess decks. One night the poor mess cook had all the pies he was preparing for the next day go crashing to the deck, but everybody else couldn't worry to much about that as we were trying to protect the film projector and ourselves as we also went sliding across the deck. Good times (not).
I can relate! Funny how your left forearm holds the tray down and that hand holds your cup. Right hand shoveling down groceries and one leg sorta wrapped around a bench mounting post... North Atlantic storms will teach you a trick! Yall Take Care and be safe, John
You do a lot of reading, if you brought enough reading material. And like the ships did with movies, trading books and magazines among the crew was also common, as well as visiting the ships library.
As a lowly IC tech on an oiler in the early '70s one of my jobs was to show 16mm movies on the mess decks. Lights out and everyone sitting on the deck. When the change reel cue would show up on the film I'd yell, "reel!", and the lights would come on, everyone would jump up and start stomping on the cocker roaches. Good times.
Thank you for doing my home state ship! Could you please find original battle footage of BB 55 I can't find any anywhere... That's for all the good work you and your crew do!
I was in the Army in the 60's. What did we do in downtime? usually nothing but try to catch some extra sleep. As a tanker sleep was anywhere you could fit and be dry that usually meant on the rear deck, never inside. A hot meal was rare, our C and K rations dated from WW2 and were ate cold as none bothered with the little gas stoves we were issued, most were "lost" in the field.
When I was in (late 80s) I read a lot of books and we played lots of Trivial Pursuit. Those lucky enough to have access to one of the office computers played tetris.
As I was on an aircraft carrier, we had a couple options. All berthing compartments had a fixed table and some folding chairs. We played spades, hearts, and pinochle. LOTS of pinochle. Yes, we did play for money. We also had board games. I've still got a couple of mine. They are wrapped in green duct tape to protect them from water, should we get any in the compartment. I had a bottom rack and the games were underneath me. And, we had TV sets throughout the ship. Even for those of us weren't brown shoes, we would watch the CCTV from the flight deck during FlightOps. All of the carriers had their own TV station. Ours had the call sign KRAN. Enterprise was KENT on the west coast and WENT on the east coast. During the evenings the TV station would broadcast movies. These could even be broadcast to our escort ships. Finally, if the sun was out and no FlightOps, we could go up on the roof, aka the flight deck, and run laps or catch some rays. We had a library on board, too. In actuality, it wasn't a bad life at sea. Due to Vietnam and the problems with North Korea, we didn't get to go to many ports. Oh, on my first cruise, 1968-'69, we were not paid in U.S. green backs in Japan. We were still being paid in scrip.
A friend served as a Machinist's Mate in the mid-1970's on a Gearing-class destroyer, a derivative of the Fletcher-class, the USS BAUSELL, DD-845, constructed at the very end of WWII. When my friend served aboard the BAUSELL, her berthing arrangements continued to rely heavily on hammocks. My friend actually preferred the hammock to the supposedly superior fixed berth because hammocks mostly stayed upright as the ship rolled, and it was nearly impossible to be thrown out, very unlike a fixed berth.
An occasional bit of fun, was during security drills, those which had a topside scenario. We were issued M-14's (nice), and would click off dry rounds at the officers from the superstructure and from behind objects, (capstan's, various superstructure corners, etc.), on the 01 level, (USS Reeves). MCI
My Dad was on a Destroyer Escort in WWII, the Chatelaine. I may not have spelled that the right way... Dad said they got the machinist to make a big treble hook then they drilled a hole through a frozen chicken and ran the cable through it then fastened the hook. They had gear onboard to tow anti-torpedo gear, I think Dad called it FXR gear. They used this winch to tow the chicken on the hook and caught huge sharks. Some of these were good eating. The rest of the time at sea they were dumping hedgehogs on submarines.
Showing movies was a job for the EM's in E division. Unusually, the movies were on the mess decks. When we were in the IO, we were allowed to show movies on the flight deck using the hanger bay doors. We did have the CCTV system too. We had 2 channels of CCTV.
My first meal on CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln in 1993, I had to follow my shipmates to find the galley and I got a piece of black meat and when I found a seat, I looked at it and tried to decide if it was beef, or fowl or possibly fish. I couldn't decide so I took a bite and decided I would probably go hungry for a while.
@@robertf3479 on initial towout of the harbor, they rammed it into a railing on one of the Coast Guard cutters that get docked there opposite the airport. Search it on youtube, some guy got a video of the whole thing
We had a two TVs on the mess decks, so they'd play movies from about 1800-2200 during the week, weekend schedule was a bit more generous. Didn't have much down time with watchstanding anyhow, so either reading books or sitting out topside for the views.
I'd love to see some photos of New Jersey stopped in the ocean and the crew diving off her swimming. Wondering where would the shark watchers be stations and what weapons did they have.
@@ghost307 Met Schwartzkopf at the Ft. Campbell Burger King of all places just a few months before Saddam invaded Kuwait. Nice guy to us EMs who were there. He was just another general then- a few months before he became famous.
I spent a couple days aboard an LSD (I don't remember her name) while I was stationed in Okinawa as a Marine in the early 80s. They showed a movie on the mess deck - "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" - and the screen was hung in the center of the deck, The movie could be watched from either side and, of course, if you sat on the wrong side, everything was reversed right-to-left! Another thing I remember was that they were only a week out of the States, and had fresh, honest-to-cow milk aboard. I'd been drinking reconstituted milk from the military's Foremost 'dairy' on Oki for more than a year, and the real stuff was like drinking half-and-half.
Oh, please, the greatest swing music in history tearing up the airwaves? That, my friends, is a dance hall. Do you think these boys would go home with zero new moves? Hell, no. Dance hall, swing band.
I enjoy your videos but would have one suggestion to make. You are in some fascinating areas of the ship we would like to see more of but the camera for the most part just stays on you. Why not show more of the areas you are talking about as you talk?
Can verify, it’s always a bit warm in the Showboat, except in the wintertime. Like to think it adds to the authenticity of the WWII configuration of her. Still always had a good time when I’ve been there for a visit. That’s probably why they take your souvenir picture before you go board, cause by the time you get out, you’re gonna be sweaty!
LOL I mentioned it in my comment. Funny I remember the exact day in which my partner and I ran TWO Boston's in the same day. I have never run one again in over 30 years.
On a Battleship can't get much different from any other 'Battling Ship'. Beyond the Films, Gambling, scuttlebutt and letters I would wreckon Geedunks... Yall Take Care and be safe, John
I've been all over that ship and never knew that about the mess decks and hammocks. Also didn't know they got their hammocks issued in boot. What would I have done with no internet? A hammock and a good book sounds like good duty to me.
You hung your hammock at 9:55 and got in it. Trust me, when you are at sea standing 4 on 8 off watches you really got no free time. Get up at 0335, on watch from 0345-0745, work 6 hours and then go back on watch from 16-1800 and then back on watch at midnight until 4 am, and then back on watch at noon,
@2:40 -- Did the hammocks ever hit the walls of the ship? I'm thinking they would have been pretty good for rolling seas (my problem with ships in general) but those closest to the hull I have to wonder if the sailor ever banged against the hull. I see protusions, pipes, and valve wheels that hammock could smack against.
Without TV and stuff, I would climb through the gun barrels for fun. This is assuming that I was on a battleship with very big guns, as I don't think I would fit through a 5 inch barrel.
My guess is lots of surreptitious poker games, but for more legitimate past times, were there board games available? Checkers, chess, monopoly, that sort of thing?
The tables not firmly affixed on the mess decks seems very dangerous to me. If King Neptune is in a bad mood and rough seas at meal time time - the mess decks might look messier that the cafeteria in Animal House after a Food Fight ! .
I guess they assumed that fantail projection room structure would just be shot away in the first battle she was in. Kind of an expendable peacetime luxury...
in this vid we see a small church organ being played during a deck service. Q: is that organ still on the ship ? if not can it be located and brought back home.
Question: We know how many individual sailors the Iowa class had when they sailed in war and in peace, but what positions did they occupy? Who did what, what were their titles, where were their stations around the ship and how many minions did each department head have under him?
In WWII, there were about 2800 sailors on board. By the 1980s, it was closer to 1600. For the best idea of each individual person and what their job titles were and who worked for who, I recommend looking at the crew's books: www.navysite.de/bb/bb62.htm
Ryan , I'm sure I can speak for many in North Carolina when I say welcome to our battleship but you just spent most of the video talking about battleship New Jersey this and battleship New Jersey that. All that while you were aboard Battleship North Carolina BB55
Lol the one time im away from home yall visit the North Carolina. Yall got a scedule of the ships yall go to? As for what i would do when im bored on the ship........lets say my dad rubbed off on me a bit too much XD.
I recently picked it up with a buddy of mine who was in the Marines. We've discussed how much better deployments would have been if only we knew how much fun it was.
I learned to play D&D in the Air Force. This was 1980 while I was attending my 2nd computer maintenance school at Keesler AFB, MS. I was a SSgt (E-5) at the time. I was hanging out at a chapel sponsored Airmans hang out in the triangle area. I always went in civies. As an NCO i shouldn't have been there. It wasn't until my last visit that I confessed to my rank. The kids at first didn't believe me until I showed my ID card. I still have my D&D stuff.
Saying a sailor does not gamble while playing cards underway, is like saying sailor’s don’t drink alcohol while on liberty.
@Surigao Strait I DID NOT HAVE ESXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN.
My dad served on the North Carolina as a machinist's mate during WW2.
The mess decks were also used as aid stations and mass casualty triage/operating rooms during battle.
No gambling. Ha. Ha. Ryan made a funny!! If there is more than two 'service members' then there is going to be a poker game at some point.
I think they only played for match sticks. 😏
Truer words were never spoken!
There are tons of firsthand accounts of sailors gambling. Even on this very channel.
USS Washington says hold my moonshine.
Look up the references that USS Washington had a still and that it supplied moonshine during the battle of Guadalcanal. I believe I saw that story in at least a few accounts of Washington’s actions at Guadalcanal. A sea story? Maybe, but hilarious either way.
@@derbuckeyetribe9789 I had one on Kennedy & Enterprise:)
Halsey eating with his sailors. Officers didn't cut in front of the gedunk line in his commands, either.
Ships did sail into typhoons though
@@jb76489 Twice.
Back in 1972 my parents took me and my two younger brothers to see the USS North Carolina and I remember it like yesterday-in the evening they had a presentation about the ship and some of the action she had seen 👍
This was the first of many museum warships that I've dragged my wife to. We liked the white silhouettes that they have illustrating how men stood in the cramped and unergonomic spaces. They illustrated the point while being less distracting (and probably a lot cheaper to buy and keep in good order) than mannequins.
I was also excited to see the cross on the temporary mess deck altar. As shown, it is rigged for a Catholic mass, with the figure of Christ showing. However, the rear side is also decorated, so that it can be turned around and become a regular cross for a Protestant service.
My great uncle served on Washington from cradle to grave. He had some great stories to tell especially concerning the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal when they sank IJN Kirishima
I will never understand why they scrap the Washington she saved yhe newest ship at that time the south Dakota the Washington didn't just sink the ijn kerishama she destroyed it tore it to pieces at almost point blank range
I have quite a few memories of sitting on those mess stools... but I was never in the navy. I was in elementary school! Our cafeteria was fitted with surplus seating from the Navy, the only difference I can see is that our seats were wood, but the castings look identical.
Those rings look beautiful. I’m currently looking into digging out my old uniforms to send a piece to them to reflect my time in service.
My father-in law was ex WW2 royal navy ( HMS Slinger) and he said that one of the crews favorite past times was making "Scrumpy" alcoholic cider from apples. Sadly his wife threw out almost all of his photos from those days which is a real shame. Despite our age gap of 50 years we got on really well together, and he was very respectful of the Germans when he said "never forget it took the whole world to defeat them not once, but twice"
We got a navy hammock from my great aunt's son that went down in a P4BY. They were really comfortable.
Properly slung, you could roll up in a blanket in a Navy hammock, warm and snug ... or so I was told.
If you were issued a hammock in basic but you were assigned a berth on the ship did you have to stow that in your tiny locker for the duration or was there someplace else that they could be put (there must have been hundreds of unused hammocks aboard)?
My stepmother's father served on the North Carolina during WW2. As a kid when we would visit I would beg to hear stories. Thus began my love affair with Battleships..
When I served aboard the USS Shenandoah (AD-26) from 1977- 1980 the movies were shown on the messdecks through a screen. Depending on where you sat, you may end up watching the movie backwards, don't know any other terms to describe. Quite an experience.
Gotta be building my miniature models!
My dad caught a ride from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a Wickes class destroyer because they wouldn't send him by train to Jacksonville for duty and the ship was making a port call in Miami then onto Cuba. They would not even let him pay his own way. There were about 15 guys in transit to Florida that caught the ship. By the third day, they were hanging their hammocks on the weather deck because it was way too hot to sleep inside. He told me that in the head there was a seawater trough that had wooden seats and there was no hot water, you would get a bucket of water and open a steam valve and hang the bucket to heat the water up. He said that there were only a few sinks but there were mirrors and you hung the bucket and then used a straight razor to shave.
"Aces" and Cribbage were the thing to do when I was in, except I didn't do either, I was mostly a reader.
Having the fixed table and chairs was a blessing on small ships. Now in rough seas you only had to worry about keeping your tray and stuff from sliding off the table and not the whole table and chairs sliding across the mess decks.
One night the poor mess cook had all the pies he was preparing for the next day go crashing to the deck, but everybody else couldn't worry to much about that as we were trying to protect the film projector and ourselves as we also went sliding across the deck. Good times (not).
I can relate! Funny how your left forearm holds the tray down and that hand holds your cup. Right hand shoveling down groceries and one leg sorta wrapped around a bench mounting post...
North Atlantic storms will teach you a trick!
Yall Take Care and be safe, John
Great video. As always. Nice to see a sponsor. Your commercial was smooth and professional. Well done!
You do a lot of reading, if you brought enough reading material. And like the ships did with movies, trading books and magazines among the crew was also common, as well as visiting the ships library.
As a lowly IC tech on an oiler in the early '70s one of my jobs was to show 16mm movies on the mess decks. Lights out and everyone sitting on the deck. When the change reel cue would show up on the film I'd yell, "reel!", and the lights would come on, everyone would jump up and start stomping on the cocker roaches. Good times.
Thank you for doing my home state ship! Could you please find original battle footage of BB 55 I can't find any anywhere... That's for all the good work you and your crew do!
I was in the Army in the 60's. What did we do in downtime? usually nothing but try to catch some extra sleep. As a tanker sleep was anywhere you could fit and be dry that usually meant on the rear deck, never inside. A hot meal was rare, our C and K rations dated from WW2 and were ate cold as none bothered with the little gas stoves we were issued, most were "lost" in the field.
When I was in (late 80s) I read a lot of books and we played lots of Trivial Pursuit. Those lucky enough to have access to one of the office computers played tetris.
Or Battle Chess lol
We read books, watched movies in our spaces (The Tomahawk Equipment Room had a tv with VCR attached), socialized, played various games, socialized.
Would love to see you do a video chat together with drachinifel, I'm sure he'd be happy to do it too
Drach and Ryan could discuss Hard Tack................LoL
As I was on an aircraft carrier, we had a couple options. All berthing compartments had a fixed table and some folding chairs. We played spades, hearts, and pinochle. LOTS of pinochle. Yes, we did play for money. We also had board games. I've still got a couple of mine. They are wrapped in green duct tape to protect them from water, should we get any in the compartment. I had a bottom rack and the games were underneath me. And, we had TV sets throughout the ship. Even for those of us weren't brown shoes, we would watch the CCTV from the flight deck during FlightOps. All of the carriers had their own TV station. Ours had the call sign KRAN. Enterprise was KENT on the west coast and WENT on the east coast. During the evenings the TV station would broadcast movies. These could even be broadcast to our escort ships. Finally, if the sun was out and no FlightOps, we could go up on the roof, aka the flight deck, and run laps or catch some rays. We had a library on board, too. In actuality, it wasn't a bad life at sea. Due to Vietnam and the problems with North Korea, we didn't get to go to many ports. Oh, on my first cruise, 1968-'69, we were not paid in U.S. green backs in Japan. We were still being paid in scrip.
A friend served as a Machinist's Mate in the mid-1970's on a Gearing-class destroyer, a derivative of the Fletcher-class, the USS BAUSELL, DD-845, constructed at the very end of WWII. When my friend served aboard the BAUSELL, her berthing arrangements continued to rely heavily on hammocks. My friend actually preferred the hammock to the supposedly superior fixed berth because hammocks mostly stayed upright as the ship rolled, and it was nearly impossible to be thrown out, very unlike a fixed berth.
I used to love going to the U.S.S. North Carolina in the 80's as a kid.
An occasional bit of fun, was during security drills, those which had a topside scenario. We were issued M-14's (nice), and would click off dry rounds at the officers from the superstructure and from behind objects, (capstan's, various superstructure corners, etc.), on the 01 level, (USS Reeves). MCI
My Dad was on a Destroyer Escort in WWII, the Chatelaine. I may not have spelled that the right way... Dad said they got the machinist to make a big treble hook then they drilled a hole through a frozen chicken and ran the cable through it then fastened the hook. They had gear onboard to tow anti-torpedo gear, I think Dad called it FXR gear. They used this winch to tow the chicken on the hook and caught huge sharks. Some of these were good eating. The rest of the time at sea they were dumping hedgehogs on submarines.
Showing movies was a job for the EM's in E division. Unusually, the movies were on the mess decks. When we were in the IO, we were allowed to show movies on the flight deck using the hanger bay doors. We did have the CCTV system too. We had 2 channels of CCTV.
Thanks for another great video Ryan!
The thumbnail is Adm. Halsey eating with normal sailors in the mess deck of New Jersey
It's pretty common for the admiral to eat with the crew when he is making a visit.
My first meal on CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln in 1993, I had to follow my shipmates to find the galley and I got a piece of black meat and when I found a seat, I looked at it and tried to decide if it was beef, or fowl or possibly fish. I couldn't decide so I took a bite and decided I would probably go hungry for a while.
Play cards for "points". D&D was always a good time.
I visited USS NC on my holidays an she is awesome
It would be cool to see you tour the USS Cod with Paul and their crew. I think it just got sent to drydock for hull repairs, though
From what I understand, Cod will be in drydock for about two months more or less. She arrived about 3 weeks ago.
@@robertf3479 on initial towout of the harbor, they rammed it into a railing on one of the Coast Guard cutters that get docked there opposite the airport. Search it on youtube, some guy got a video of the whole thing
We had a two TVs on the mess decks, so they'd play movies from about 1800-2200 during the week, weekend schedule was a bit more generous. Didn't have much down time with watchstanding anyhow, so either reading books or sitting out topside for the views.
Spades, writing letters, and checking out books from the library.
I'd love to see some photos of New Jersey stopped in the ocean and the crew diving off her swimming. Wondering where would the shark watchers be stations and what weapons did they have.
Shark watch would be in one or more of the ship's boats, armed with the small arms of the day, such as an M-1 or M-14 later.
One of my favorite places aboard.
"Pin the Tail", on the Division -"Commissioned Officer", was always fun, & "SMOKERS", Boxing matches.
Bill Halsey with the crew. How cool is that.
I always liked the officers who didn't act like they were superior beings just because of their rank.
Gen. Schwarzkopf was another guy like that.
@@ghost307 Met Schwartzkopf at the Ft. Campbell Burger King of all places just a few months before Saddam invaded Kuwait. Nice guy to us EMs who were there. He was just another general then- a few months before he became famous.
I spent a couple days aboard an LSD (I don't remember her name) while I was stationed in Okinawa as a Marine in the early 80s. They showed a movie on the mess deck - "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" - and the screen was hung in the center of the deck, The movie could be watched from either side and, of course, if you sat on the wrong side, everything was reversed right-to-left!
Another thing I remember was that they were only a week out of the States, and had fresh, honest-to-cow milk aboard. I'd been drinking reconstituted milk from the military's Foremost 'dairy' on Oki for more than a year, and the real stuff was like drinking half-and-half.
While your there, you should do a video on the CIC. I believe it was the first ship with one.
Man!
I wish I knew you were coming out to Wilmington, I would have love to have met you in person.
Play cards for some. Reading for others. Shooting the breeze and spreading scuttlebutt for the rest.
Thirty years ago, while deployed on USS Peleliu, there were board games etched into the mess tables, checkers/chess, backgammon and cribbage…
Oh, please, the greatest swing music in history tearing up the airwaves? That, my friends, is a dance hall. Do you think these boys would go home with zero new moves? Hell, no. Dance hall, swing band.
Massachusetts has a mess hall that looks very similar.
There's enough guys on these ships to have several baseball, basketball and football teams
Like the new intro. Well done
Very interesting!
I would likely spend my free time reading if I had been a sailor on the battleship.
I enjoy your videos but would have one suggestion to make. You are in some fascinating areas of the ship we would like to see more of but the camera for the most part just stays on you. Why not show more of the areas you are talking about as you talk?
Ryan is looking a little 'shiny' It must've been a hot day in Wilmington.
I suspect that's why his sign-off tonight sounded like he was in a hurry to go elsewhere and sit in the breeze.
It is hot in Raleigh so it's that much hotter on the river.
Can verify, it’s always a bit warm in the Showboat, except in the wintertime. Like to think it adds to the authenticity of the WWII configuration of her. Still always had a good time when I’ve been there for a visit. That’s probably why they take your souvenir picture before you go board, cause by the time you get out, you’re gonna be sweaty!
No hot racking on North Carolina - I bet those guys were happy - eventhough some had to sleep in the mess deck!
Oh my goodness, no mention of spades or hearts? Thats all we did at sea.
Mark
Cvn72 plankowner
LOL I mentioned it in my comment. Funny I remember the exact day in which my partner and I ran TWO Boston's in the same day. I have never run one again in over 30 years.
On a Battleship can't get much different from any other 'Battling Ship'. Beyond the Films, Gambling, scuttlebutt and letters I would wreckon Geedunks...
Yall Take Care and be safe, John
When I was deployed to Iraq we played Spades, cribbage and dominoes in our downtime. I assume it would be the same on a ship.
I've been all over that ship and never knew that about the mess decks and hammocks. Also didn't know they got their hammocks issued in boot. What would I have done with no internet? A hammock and a good book sounds like good duty to me.
Can't imagine trying to sleep in the mess decks with all that activity going on all the time.
You hung your hammock at 9:55 and got in it. Trust me, when you are at sea standing 4 on 8 off watches you really got no free time. Get up at 0335, on watch from 0345-0745, work 6 hours and then go back on watch from 16-1800 and then back on watch at midnight until 4 am, and then back on watch at noon,
Being in the Army, we had cards (gambling), chess (gambling), checkers (gambling) etc.. You can bet on just about anything 😂
@2:40 -- Did the hammocks ever hit the walls of the ship? I'm thinking they would have been pretty good for rolling seas (my problem with ships in general) but those closest to the hull I have to wonder if the sailor ever banged against the hull. I see protusions, pipes, and valve wheels that hammock could smack against.
Without TV and stuff, I would climb through the gun barrels for fun. This is assuming that I was on a battleship with very big guns, as I don't think I would fit through a 5 inch barrel.
I would just go out to the deck and enjoy the breeze
You guys going to be there when the Texas opens? I’d love to say hi!
Almost as she did during WWII....except for the big ol' MITSUBISHI air conditioner amidships.
I would read, always end up rereading books so a small stack of good books would work.
My favorite pastime would be sleeping.
That was mine while I deployed to Iraq.
Wait, wut? you guys are in Wilmington?!?!! I wish I knew.. I would have bought you a beer........ Jersey bred... living in ILM now...
My guess is lots of surreptitious poker games, but for more legitimate past times, were there board games available? Checkers, chess, monopoly, that sort of thing?
You could do some bowling.
How about a Rayn clip on Acy Ducy, Doug
I see many ships had movie set ups.
The tables not firmly affixed on the mess decks seems very dangerous to me. If King Neptune is in a bad mood and rough seas at meal time time - the mess decks might look messier that the cafeteria in Animal House after a Food Fight ! .
Lots of target practice with the big guns... Keep everyone entertained and keep the ammo rotated and fresh.
What I would do at that age without other entertainment I can’t say.
I'm curious if they had some pick up bands that would play and if there's any recordings
I guess they assumed that fantail projection room structure would just be shot away in the first battle she was in. Kind of an expendable peacetime luxury...
I think they tried to get away from wood decks as they threw splinters when hit by bombs or shell fire
I could see myself doing a lot of fishing.
Good one Lonny.
in this vid we see a small church organ being played during a deck service. Q: is that organ still on the ship ? if not can it be located and brought back home.
love you ryan
A rousing game of poker.
Lots of trips to the smoke deck. Trust me.
Where would the sailors sleeping in hammocks keep their personal belongings?
Question: We know how many individual sailors the Iowa class had when they sailed in war and in peace, but what positions did they occupy? Who did what, what were their titles, where were their stations around the ship and how many minions did each department head have under him?
In WWII, there were about 2800 sailors on board. By the 1980s, it was closer to 1600. For the best idea of each individual person and what their job titles were and who worked for who, I recommend looking at the crew's books: www.navysite.de/bb/bb62.htm
@@BattleshipNewJersey My thanks! I had no idea what these sort of books were called, but I knew they had to exist!
Are those interior paint colors on North Carolina Period correct for WWII?
Did any of these guys read?
Ryan, do i have access to the 16 inch guns... PULL!
I’m a low voltage cable tech (shared account as you can see), so I’d just build my own internet infrastructure and watch Netflix. Lulz!
without any of these possibilities? probably go crazy or read, or read and go crazy
Ryan , I'm sure I can speak for many in North Carolina when I say welcome to our battleship but you just spent most of the video talking about battleship New Jersey this and battleship New Jersey that. All that while you were aboard Battleship North Carolina BB55
We are battleship NJ after all
@@BattleshipNewJersey , Yes , you are the NJ , aboard the North Carolina with North Carolina in the title
How often did the crew get to swim?
Lol the one time im away from home yall visit the North Carolina. Yall got a scedule of the ships yall go to?
As for what i would do when im bored on the ship........lets say my dad rubbed off on me a bit too much XD.
Form a crew jazz band?
We one time didn't gamble for money, we gambled for flicks on the forehead. We all left with red foreheads and sore fingers.
Dungeons and Dragons is what I would so if I was in the navy.
It was pretty popular on board NJ in the 80s
I recently picked it up with a buddy of mine who was in the Marines. We've discussed how much better deployments would have been if only we knew how much fun it was.
I learned to play D&D in the Air Force. This was 1980 while I was attending my 2nd computer maintenance school at Keesler AFB, MS. I was a SSgt (E-5) at the time. I was hanging out at a chapel sponsored Airmans hang out in the triangle area. I always went in civies. As an NCO i shouldn't have been there. It wasn't until my last visit that I confessed to my rank. The kids at first didn't believe me until I showed my ID card. I still have my D&D stuff.
Who was thinking of the south sea islands; maybe monkey fights or something like that or Saturday night!