Just a side note is when the battleship went thru the canal and crossed the GATUN lake is the only time the battleship was in fresh water. Crew member 83 to 86 EN 2.
She was launched into fresh water and has spent decades floating in fresh water, but I’d believe the crossing was her only times in a fresh water lake but certainly not he first time she’s been in fresh water.
I was lucky enough to be stationed in Panama when the New Jersey made the final trip through the canal. I had the great privilege to come aboard and visit the ship as it was docked in Balboa for a short time while in Panama. I was thrilled to be able to take a few photos on board before she made the final trip to become a museum.
My husband and I transited the Panama Canal last spring on the Emerald Princess. We departed from Los Angeles, which means we passed the USS Iowa on the way out, a special treat. Saw the April Solar eclipse and then transited the canal. An amazing experience!
Never went through Panama, but have been through the Suez Twice on USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71. 1st in Oct 2001 to head to the Indian Ocean for the Start of OEF. 2nd time in Feb 2002 to start heading back home to Norfolk. This was over 10 years .before they changed Roosevelt's home port to the west coast.
I went through the canal on the USS Cleveland, LPD-7 back in 1992. Got stuck in the first lock. Had to be towed backwards back to Rodman to have things cut off the ship before trying again. The Chief Engineer got fired for that and I had to fill his job for the remainder of the LEO ops. I was MPA at the time.
@@davidschick6951 Law Enforcement Operations. Basically, looking for drug runners. USS Cleveland did a 2nd LEO Ops, in 1993, where she aided in the largest cocaine seizure at that time in a joint venture with the Columbian Navy. I wasn't aboard at that time.
Onboard a Cruise Ship typing this, went threw the Panama Canal 3days ago, my 4th Transit in 2yrs. Watching those old Videos posted here lot has changed along the Canal even on one from 25yrs ago
I did a three month TDY in Panama in the summer of 1988. I was Army out of Ft. Bragg. We landed at Howard AFB on the Pacific side. We used some kind of military watercraft to haul ourselves and gear to Camp Sherman on the Atlantic side. There are lots of places near the canal where you can see freighters and cruise ships transiting, but you can't see the canal itself. It appears as if the ship is sailing through the jungle. Near the Gatun locks, there is a small channel called the French cut. It was an earlier attempt by the French to dig a canal before the Americans got involved. There were two technological innovations which helped the canal happen. One was mosquito control, the other was screw type railroad spikes which allowed railroad beds to stay tied together long enough to haul tons of earth across soft, wet jungle.
There is now viewing area for Tourists to see Ships go threw Locks, its next to the Locks pretty close and about 30ft off ground. Was waving to them 3days ago as my Cruise Ship took us threw.
It very much is - Panama is beautiful, and the canal itself is probably the greatest feat of human engineering ever completed - I suggest "The Path Between The Seas" as excellent reading. Something a bit closer to home though are the Soo locks, you can transit them without a passport and are what gave the US confidence to build a lock canal in Panama rather than Ferdinand de Lesseps' preferred sea level routing.
@@jec6613Excellent reference for a period of history not well documented until David McCullough book, well worth the read providing insight into “what was happening in the world” during those years. Thoroughly worth the read! Also recommend his other epic reads, a couple of incredible Pulitzer and P-worthy books: Just quickly: John Adam’s, Harry Truman, The Great Bridge ( Brooklyn), Brave Companions (Lewis and Clark), and 2-3 others…all wonderful and Bravo to you jec for the mention, my fortune was my Navy time, great friends, and incredible times! Thank-you!
I would love to hear the specifics of doing a dead tow through the canal as opposed to her going through under her own power. What was done differently? Were the tugs in the locks with her? How long did each version of the transit take? What challenges were faced? Etc.
Went through the Panama Canal in 1969 onboard the USS Durham LKA-114. We required escorting Tug Boats as our engineering plant was marginal. We had lost propulsion off Cuba while in transit from Norfolk to Long Beach and no one trusted the boilers.
The Charleston class had bad boilers from the start. Before we commissioned, the Charleston LKA-113 was towed back into Norfolk due to boiler failures. When we arrived in Long Beach, they had to rework our boilers. Not being in engineering, I don't know what was done to get a reliable power plant in the class, but they did go on to serve many years in the navy. Durham was finally sunk as a target off Hawaii a few years ago.
I've been lucky enough to transit the Panama canal once. I was on HMS Endurance at the time, and it was in early 1988. The canal is an amazing piece of engineering.
I was going through the Jungle School in Ft Sherman, Panama in 1986 when one of the Iowa class BBs came through the canal. We got to watch it from the shore of Ft Sherman and at the Gatun Locks. I was again back in Ft Sherman in '97 and '98 working at the school. I left a year early (as we all did). I would love to have seen the New Jersey come through.
The St. Lawrence Seaway locks should have been built the same size as the Panama locks. Nothing against Norfolk, but having Wisconsin in Wisconsin would have been cool.
I was in Panama in 1985 while serving in the Marines. I witnessed a Russian Naval Ship going through the canal with the Russian Sailors on deck. Amazing!
I’ve not done a full transit. When we did a Caribbean cruise, our ship entered the Panama Canal, and then turned around and went back out the same way. That’s the closest I’ve gotten.
If any of the Iowas was ever recalled to be reactivated and has to transit the Panama Canal, it wouldn’t be an issue anymore. A 3rd set of much wider locks has been built. Still not enough to accommodate a supercarrier, but no longer the tight squeeze for a battleship.
When the Admiral Class battlecruiser Hood went through the Panama canal over a hundred years ago, the Americans as I will always argue should have widen the Panama canal after the Empire Cruise of 1923-24. It should not have needed the Saratoga (CV-3) to cause damage to force the Americans's hand Hood was only just within the Panama Canal width limit of 110 feet and without the treaty and the problem of dockyards across the British Empire being too small to fit the Royal Navy capital ships, I think the British Empire would have run into the Panamax problem long before the United States did
Gone through the canal on cruise ships once in each direction. Our first transit was from the Caribbean to the Pacific in 2001; second was in the reverse direction on a repositioning cruise in 2010. On that cruise we actually watched the ship go through the Gatun locks and reboarded in Colon.
I was stationed aboard USS Mount Vernon (LSD39) from 1992-96. We were the first West Coast ship to carry LCACs. We came back from WestPac right before Christmas 1995, had our leaves, then got ready to leave San Diego, head through the Panama Canal, and up to Panama City, Florida to pick up three more LCACs to bring back to San Diego since that was really the only way to transport them long distance. (That and spending Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, seeing people get in fistfights over the moon pies they were throwing from the parade floats.) For me, the canal at points felt like going through the boat ride at Adventureland in Disneyland, with the jungle right at the water's edge. Granted, we weren't a wide ship (our beam was only 84 feet) and at one point, we passed a Spru-can coming the other way. Still, it was one of the highlights of my career, even after other deployments and port visits. Not everyone gets to experience it. I can only imagine trying to squeeze a PANAMAX through the locks.
Actually this all brings back a sad memory. I had arranged to be in Panama to watch the transit. At the time, I was consulting for an American mining client in Colombia. He insisted that I had to stay an extra day for a meeting so I couldn't get to Panama in time. To add insult to injury, he never paid the bill I sent him for services. 😥
7:03 - Very glad to see the footage describing the operation of the emergency dam wickets. We've been to both the Ohio River locks and the Welland Canal, so it's interesting to compare.
Just a thought, all these never ending great footage/photos from the past. Are there foreign archives available to compliment the BB 62 museum presentations? Thinking foreign archives of BB62....
July 1978 - Took delivery of a new Bering Sea crab boat in Mobile, AL. Ran her down through the canal and up the west coast of Mexico and the US to Seattle for her final fittings. Then on to Alaska for her initial taste of King Crab.
The Canal is pretty cool to see in person. Miraflores Locks has a history museum of sorts with lots to see, and a viewing platform to watch the locks in actions. Tours transiting the canal are available, some are 1/2 way and others are full... Your options are limited by the canal traffic schedule, and the tour boat typically shares space with another boat (transits are not cheap for commercial vessels). Interesting point of info, the 'locomotives' you see on the tracks adjacent to the canal are used to help keep the vessel centered in the lock, all ships normally move forward under their own power.. It's a must-see activity if you're in the Panama City area and have the time.
I did a transit on a cruise ship in 2007. An amazing g experience and a lot of the original machinery from the opening is still in use. There was a crane working at a dry dock at the Pacific end with a builders plate on it from 1916. I think it was built in Cleveland OH. There was also a floating crane used for lock gate replacement that was a German prize that the USA got in 1919.
I hear with climate change there have been environmental issues with water , it seems the Panama canal might be to be less available at times . The hull looks very smart after painting and New Jersey looks to be settled for the foreseeable future . I think you have made the best decisions to secure her future .
I did the Suez 9x and like the Jersey I doubt I'll be doing it again. The Titanic and her sisters were designed to just fit through the canal. Even with tighter tolerances it is a big coincidence if the Iowa's weren't designed with the same goal.
Never been thru the Canal but i'm taking a cruise thru in March of 2025 if all hell does not break loose after this election, last time I scheduled a cruise it was for 2020 and Covid nixed that plan.
Yes my ship went through the Panama Canal returning from Guam. We were ordered to remain inside the ship because of drugs so I never got to see the locks.
Did you see the USS Iowa museum's broadcast about there issues with drydocking? They pretty much said they aren't going through the canal to get to a drydock because of the cost.
@@shubinternetUnfortunately, any dry docks that could hold Iowa have either been demolished, are occupied with Navy work, or up the Columbia River and essentially inaccessible (not to mention they don’t have the funds).
I've seen pictures of American aircraft carriers in the suez canal. The ships almost dwarfs the canal and it also makes her vulnerable to attack. I think, but correct me if I'm wrong.
I somehow doubt it. There were no targets in the Indian Ocean during their active service. P.S. I live in the Cape, and we very rarely see US warships. Last I remember was the carrier Roosevelt (CVN-71) in 2008.
That hull form - max beam is *just* aft of the superstructure. The Iowas aren’t *quite* slab-sided. They’ve got that arrowhead shape tapering outward to turret 3.
Let's hope she doesn't have to make another transit of the canal, especially under her own power. We'd be in serious stuff if that were the case. Not likely though given the ship's age and the changes in naval warfare, but I'd never say never. Many times the military has said a weapon system is obsolete only to be proven wrong and it makes a comeback.
I know we tried this in the 60's or 70's, possibly 80's, but could we install a nuclear power plant in a destroyer, or an Iowa? Or build a destroyer around Iowa's current engine? After, of course, manufacturing a smaller, modern material version.
You really don't want to put a nuclear power plant in a ship that is intended to keep functioning even if it gets holes blown through parts of its propulsion system. The whole point of them is to be resilient to damage.
@@krtwood agreed. But if your talking about the destroyer, it wasn't feasible because the reactor was to big, and it had too return to port to rearm anyway, so it was kinda useless. If your talking BB, I don't don't see the problem. Just armour up the radiation barrier. As for putting a new, smaller modern material engine into a destroyer, it'd probably act like a reactor. Just without harming the crew.
It's amazing how this guy gets his rocks off on the jersey going through the canal.the jersey is a pile of junk.mighty mo and whiskey.so much political bs with new jersey. The state needs something
Yeah the Panama canal only exists because the United States is trying to replicate the success of the Suez canal built by the British Empire and French Empire and failing There is an argument that the Americans should not have built the Panama Canal back in 1904-1914.
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Just a side note is when the battleship went thru the canal and crossed the GATUN lake is the only time the battleship was in fresh water. Crew member 83 to 86 EN 2.
Man I envy you.
What do you call the slurry of the delaware river? Poisonous broth?😂🎉
She was launched into fresh water and has spent decades floating in fresh water, but I’d believe the crossing was her only times in a fresh water lake but certainly not he first time she’s been in fresh water.
Fresh water, tidal water, or brackish water? Before you have a go at toddslick64 think about semantics, and whether a lock came into effect.
Brackish=/= fresh water
I was lucky enough to be stationed in Panama when the New Jersey made the final trip through the canal. I had the great privilege to come aboard and visit the ship as it was docked in Balboa for a short time while in Panama. I was thrilled to be able to take a few photos on board before she made the final trip to become a museum.
My husband and I transited the Panama Canal last spring on the Emerald Princess. We departed from Los Angeles, which means we passed the USS Iowa on the way out, a special treat. Saw the April Solar eclipse and then transited the canal. An amazing experience!
Just WOW. Very cool experience!
My mom and I are crossing that off our bucket list this April, but we're going the other way, from Ft. Laud to Los Angeles.
Never went through Panama, but have been through the Suez Twice on USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71. 1st in Oct 2001 to head to the Indian Ocean for the Start of OEF. 2nd time in Feb 2002 to start heading back home to Norfolk. This was over 10 years .before they changed Roosevelt's home port to the west coast.
I went through the canal on the USS Cleveland, LPD-7 back in 1992. Got stuck in the first lock. Had to be towed backwards back to Rodman to have things cut off the ship before trying again. The Chief Engineer got fired for that and I had to fill his job for the remainder of the LEO ops. I was MPA at the time.
What does LEO stand for?
@@davidschick6951 Law Enforcement Operations. Basically, looking for drug runners. USS Cleveland did a 2nd LEO Ops, in 1993, where she aided in the largest cocaine seizure at that time in a joint venture with the Columbian Navy. I wasn't aboard at that time.
Law Enforcement Operations.
@@davidschick6951 What does MPA stand for?
Onboard a Cruise Ship typing this, went threw the Panama Canal 3days ago, my 4th Transit in 2yrs. Watching those old Videos posted here lot has changed along the Canal even on one from 25yrs ago
I did a three month TDY in Panama in the summer of 1988. I was Army out of Ft. Bragg. We landed at Howard AFB on the Pacific side. We used some kind of military watercraft to haul ourselves and gear to Camp Sherman on the Atlantic side.
There are lots of places near the canal where you can see freighters and cruise ships transiting, but you can't see the canal itself. It appears as if the ship is sailing through the jungle.
Near the Gatun locks, there is a small channel called the French cut. It was an earlier attempt by the French to dig a canal before the Americans got involved. There were two technological innovations which helped the canal happen. One was mosquito control, the other was screw type railroad spikes which allowed railroad beds to stay tied together long enough to haul tons of earth across soft, wet jungle.
And I don't believe the French had used steam shovels on their attempt to build the "Panama Canal" ...
There is now viewing area for Tourists to see Ships go threw Locks, its next to the Locks pretty close and about 30ft off ground. Was waving to them 3days ago as my Cruise Ship took us threw.
A Panama canal cruise would actually be one of the few cruises, I would find worth it. 😊
It very much is - Panama is beautiful, and the canal itself is probably the greatest feat of human engineering ever completed - I suggest "The Path Between The Seas" as excellent reading. Something a bit closer to home though are the Soo locks, you can transit them without a passport and are what gave the US confidence to build a lock canal in Panama rather than Ferdinand de Lesseps' preferred sea level routing.
@@jec6613Excellent reference for a period of history not well documented until David McCullough book, well worth the read providing insight into “what was happening in the world” during those years. Thoroughly worth the read! Also recommend his other epic reads, a couple of incredible Pulitzer and P-worthy books: Just quickly: John Adam’s, Harry Truman, The Great Bridge ( Brooklyn), Brave Companions (Lewis and Clark), and 2-3 others…all wonderful and Bravo to you jec for the mention, my fortune was my Navy time, great friends, and incredible times! Thank-you!
I would love to hear the specifics of doing a dead tow through the canal as opposed to her going through under her own power. What was done differently? Were the tugs in the locks with her? How long did each version of the transit take? What challenges were faced? Etc.
Went through the Panama Canal in 1969 onboard the USS Durham LKA-114. We required escorting Tug Boats as our engineering plant was marginal. We had lost propulsion off Cuba while in transit from Norfolk to Long Beach and no one trusted the boilers.
But she was brand new then
The Charleston class had bad boilers from the start. Before we commissioned, the Charleston LKA-113 was towed back into Norfolk due to boiler failures. When we arrived in Long Beach, they had to rework our boilers. Not being in engineering, I don't know what was done to get a reliable power plant in the class, but they did go on to serve many years in the navy. Durham was finally sunk as a target off Hawaii a few years ago.
Transit through the Panama Canal has been on my bucket list forever. On the verge of retirement and about 2 years from fulfilling that dream.
I've been lucky enough to transit the Panama canal once. I was on HMS Endurance at the time, and it was in early 1988. The canal is an amazing piece of engineering.
I am doing a transit of the canal in Oct 2025, can't wait!
Very cool. In what capacity are you doing it? Merchant vessel?
I was going through the Jungle School in Ft Sherman, Panama in 1986 when one of the Iowa class BBs came through the canal. We got to watch it from the shore of Ft Sherman and at the Gatun Locks. I was again back in Ft Sherman in '97 and '98 working at the school. I left a year early (as we all did). I would love to have seen the New Jersey come through.
The St. Lawrence Seaway locks should have been built the same size as the Panama locks. Nothing against Norfolk, but having Wisconsin in Wisconsin would have been cool.
Well said
"Tight squeeze. Hey! Ive still got my girlish figure!" 😁😁. Teddys ditch shouldve been about 50ft wider.
They built a second lock system a few years ago.
They would've just built the ships 50ft wider.
See the 11' 8" bridge , it was raised 8" and trucks still hit it.
@@bobroberts2371 Hey! nice to see a fellow 11' 8" fan here too!
I love battleship new jersey
I was in Panama in 1985 while serving in the Marines. I witnessed a Russian Naval Ship going through the canal with the Russian Sailors on deck. Amazing!
Great video, as always. Fascinating. Thank you sir
Panamax designed.
The Montana class were the first battleships designed to exceed the limits of the Panama Canal.
I’ve not done a full transit. When we did a Caribbean cruise, our ship entered the Panama Canal, and then turned around and went back out the same way. That’s the closest I’ve gotten.
If any of the Iowas was ever recalled to be reactivated and has to transit the Panama Canal, it wouldn’t be an issue anymore. A 3rd set of much wider locks has been built. Still not enough to accommodate a supercarrier, but no longer the tight squeeze for a battleship.
When the Admiral Class battlecruiser Hood went through the Panama canal over a hundred years ago, the Americans as I will always argue should have widen the Panama canal after the Empire Cruise of 1923-24.
It should not have needed the Saratoga (CV-3) to cause damage to force the Americans's hand
Hood was only just within the Panama Canal width limit of 110 feet and without the treaty and the problem of dockyards across the British Empire being too small to fit the Royal Navy capital ships, I think the British Empire would have run into the Panamax problem long before the United States did
Gone through the canal on cruise ships once in each direction. Our first transit was from the Caribbean to the Pacific in 2001; second was in the reverse direction on a repositioning cruise in 2010. On that cruise we actually watched the ship go through the Gatun locks and reboarded in Colon.
I was stationed aboard USS Mount Vernon (LSD39) from 1992-96. We were the first West Coast ship to carry LCACs. We came back from WestPac right before Christmas 1995, had our leaves, then got ready to leave San Diego, head through the Panama Canal, and up to Panama City, Florida to pick up three more LCACs to bring back to San Diego since that was really the only way to transport them long distance. (That and spending Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, seeing people get in fistfights over the moon pies they were throwing from the parade floats.)
For me, the canal at points felt like going through the boat ride at Adventureland in Disneyland, with the jungle right at the water's edge. Granted, we weren't a wide ship (our beam was only 84 feet) and at one point, we passed a Spru-can coming the other way. Still, it was one of the highlights of my career, even after other deployments and port visits. Not everyone gets to experience it.
I can only imagine trying to squeeze a PANAMAX through the locks.
Actually this all brings back a sad memory. I had arranged to be in Panama to watch the transit. At the time, I was consulting for an American mining client in Colombia. He insisted that I had to stay an extra day for a meeting so I couldn't get to Panama in time. To add insult to injury, he never paid the bill I sent him for services. 😥
That dirty so and so!
I went through the Panama Canal in 1993 on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41 in support of UNITAS 34-93.
I grew up near canals. My dad helped dig the Erie Canal and I remember the opening ceremony in the city when the locks opened.
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I traveled through the Suez Canal twice, on the SS Wright (TAVB-3) during OIF, but never got to the Panama Canal.
7:03 - Very glad to see the footage describing the operation of the emergency dam wickets. We've been to both the Ohio River locks and the Welland Canal, so it's interesting to compare.
Are you talking about the McAlpine Dam and Locks at Louisville, Kentucky?
Just a thought, all these never ending great footage/photos from the past. Are there foreign archives available to compliment the BB 62 museum presentations? Thinking foreign archives of BB62....
July 1978 - Took delivery of a new Bering Sea crab boat in Mobile, AL. Ran her down through the canal and up the west coast of Mexico and the US to Seattle for her final fittings. Then on to Alaska for her initial taste of King Crab.
The Canal is pretty cool to see in person. Miraflores Locks has a history museum of sorts with lots to see, and a viewing platform to watch the locks in actions. Tours transiting the canal are available, some are 1/2 way and others are full... Your options are limited by the canal traffic schedule, and the tour boat typically shares space with another boat (transits are not cheap for commercial vessels). Interesting point of info, the 'locomotives' you see on the tracks adjacent to the canal are used to help keep the vessel centered in the lock, all ships normally move forward under their own power.. It's a must-see activity if you're in the Panama City area and have the time.
Nice video and paint job is looking good. 👍 Greetings from East Tennessee 🤠
Wow!
10 transit's!
I did a transit on a cruise ship in 2007. An amazing g experience and a lot of the original machinery from the opening is still in use. There was a crane working at a dry dock at the Pacific end with a builders plate on it from 1916. I think it was built in Cleveland OH. There was also a floating crane used for lock gate replacement that was a German prize that the USA got in 1919.
1983, I saw her go through the Gatun locks from a Duce.
I hear with climate change there have been environmental issues with water , it seems the Panama canal might be to be less available at times . The hull looks very smart after painting and New Jersey looks to be settled for the foreseeable future . I think you have made the best decisions to secure her future .
They’ve been expanding the canal without calculating the freshwater available!
A problem of having a water supply at the top in the middle. When it runs out of water . . . . . .
I did the Suez 9x and like the Jersey I doubt I'll be doing it again. The Titanic and her sisters were designed to just fit through the canal. Even with tighter tolerances it is a big coincidence if the Iowa's weren't designed with the same goal.
I went through the Panama Canal in both directions in I believe it was 1982 on the USS Hermitage
yes 1966 on a gearing class destroyer (DD 849) on our way to WEST PAK
Never been thru the Canal but i'm taking a cruise thru in March of 2025 if all hell does not break loose after this election, last time I scheduled a cruise it was for 2020 and Covid nixed that plan.
Ryan - what's the total mileage on each of the Iowas? Is there a map of every course she's completed? Might be an interesting project.
Unknown. They reset the counter after each major overhaul.
Yes my ship went through the Panama Canal returning from Guam. We were ordered to remain inside the ship because of drugs so I never got to see the locks.
Good video as usual.
This is the first time I've heard anyone refer to the Panama Canal as "Teddy's Ditch".
Some really interesting old film on this one.
Are you sure your "crush tubes" are not scupper tubes? Check inside the hull where the tubes are mounted and you should find a scupper overboard valve
There are scuppers in there, but not all scuppers have the tubes
Did you see the USS Iowa museum's broadcast about there issues with drydocking? They pretty much said they aren't going through the canal to get to a drydock because of the cost.
I don’t see why they couldn’t find a suitable dry dock on their side of the canal. Maybe I need to go watch that video.
@@shubinternetUnfortunately, any dry docks that could hold Iowa have either been demolished, are occupied with Navy work, or up the Columbia River and essentially inaccessible (not to mention they don’t have the funds).
How long did the tow from Bremerton to Camden take, and did they stop along the way?
I wonder what battleship has been through the Panama canal the most and which Navy ship has the most.
I've seen pictures of American aircraft carriers in the suez canal. The ships almost dwarfs the canal and it also makes her vulnerable to attack. I think, but correct me if I'm wrong.
My Dad transited the Canal in 1945 aboard his ship, the legendary destroyer USS Mullany (DD-528).
Did any Iowas go through Suez, or round the Cape of Good Hope?
I somehow doubt it. There were no targets in the Indian Ocean during their active service. P.S. I live in the Cape, and we very rarely see US warships. Last I remember was the carrier Roosevelt (CVN-71) in 2008.
She's been through the Panama Canal like I have the Suez Canal. I've been through the Suez five times going both ways.
That hull form - max beam is *just* aft of the superstructure. The Iowas aren’t *quite* slab-sided. They’ve got that arrowhead shape tapering outward to turret 3.
How much time was saved when travelling through the canal with all the preparations compared to going around the cape.
Great history lesson, the videos were very interesting. With the crossing in fresh water was there any problems ?
Let's hope she doesn't have to make another transit of the canal, especially under her own power. We'd be in serious stuff if that were the case. Not likely though given the ship's age and the changes in naval warfare, but I'd never say never. Many times the military has said a weapon system is obsolete only to be proven wrong and it makes a comeback.
It might not be the last time a uss New Jersey goes through the Panama Canal. What would be the odds of the new submarine transiting the canal?
What's your favorite part of the ship that's not in the tour? What about the worst spot?
Would love to see a video on the sort of demilitarised stuff they did to put her out of use
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Bad that we gave up the Canal we are loosing our infrastructure ! Iowa says they can't Dry Dock due to the loss of Pacific Ship Yards.
Read "The Path Between The Seas" - it might change your thoughts on the subject.
First model i ever built. 1/700.
made the 84 transit Order of the Ditch Mar Det 84-86
I will wager the US Navy has 3 time as many sailors & ships that have transited the Suez Canal versus the Panama
I went through the Suez Canal twice on USS Wasp LHD 1 in 2002
Not to be confused with PANAMIN... which would be this little 3D printed benchy I've got here in my palm....
You say NJ was the only one that could go to her home state. Why couldn't Wisconsin transit the St. Lawrence Seaway to Wisconsin?
The locks in the St Lawrence Seaway are too small to accommodate an Iowa class battleship, being roughly 766 ft long by 80 ft wide.
But new panamax is 168 feet ???
Transiting the Panama Canal: "If you are on the weather decks you are in whites!"
To SUCCESS ! . . . the only thing they pay us for.
I know we tried this in the 60's or 70's, possibly 80's, but could we install a nuclear power plant in a destroyer, or an Iowa? Or build a destroyer around Iowa's current engine? After, of course, manufacturing a smaller, modern material version.
You really don't want to put a nuclear power plant in a ship that is intended to keep functioning even if it gets holes blown through parts of its propulsion system. The whole point of them is to be resilient to damage.
@@krtwood agreed. But if your talking about the destroyer, it wasn't feasible because the reactor was to big, and it had too return to port to rearm anyway, so it was kinda useless. If your talking BB, I don't don't see the problem. Just armour up the radiation barrier. As for putting a new, smaller modern material engine into a destroyer, it'd probably act like a reactor. Just without harming the crew.
Never should have turned over the canal.
Hey, we need to do a final salute to the S.S United States.
Ran when parked
Nope just the Suez.
She'll be there again......
2nd, 18 October 2024
It's amazing how this guy gets his rocks off on the jersey going through the canal.the jersey is a pile of junk.mighty mo and whiskey.so much political bs with new jersey. The state needs something
Did you call the Panama canal, "teddy's ditch"? Lol
Yeah the Panama canal only exists because the United States is trying to replicate the success of the Suez canal built by the British Empire and French Empire and failing
There is an argument that the Americans should not have built the Panama Canal back in 1904-1914.
Boohoo.
The Panama Canal is hardly a failure. Though they are running out of fresh water at the moment.
it's a loooooong way around the tip of South America. great short cut
And what “argument”would that be? 🤔
Scrap it.
I was in Panama in 1985 with the Marines. I witnessed a Russian Naval Ship going through the canal with Russian Sailors on deck. Amazing!