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Battleship New Jersey Drydocking - Tours w/Drach, Ticket Giveaway and Meetup! (25th-26th May 2024)
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- A quick video outlining the ongoing drydocking of USS New Jersey, how you can come and visit it, get a tour with me and a few other bits!
Tours with me or Ryan: 63691.blackbau...
Regular Tours: 63691.blackbau...
Evening Meetup: www.victorspub...
Email for Giveaway Entry - fiveminuteguides@gmail.com
A New Jersey tour with Ryan + Drach would be a great thing 👍
That it would.
Couldn’t be condensed down to less than 12 hours 😂
Kudos to the unnamed benefactor who has underwritten the cost of the give-away tour slots! One friendly point of info, perhaps it would be beneficial to publish whether give-away winners receive a single ticket or pair of tickets, just so everyone is clear. Reason is, the Museum recently did their own give-away and it was for a pair of tickets.
Nice of you to donate your time Drach, I'm sure the trust appreciates it.
Also, very generous of the subscriber, that's a huge donation.
Tour with Drach rambling about stuff for hours on end. Name your price. Man what I wouldn't give to be let loose with a radio and flashlight on that ship.
Drach and curator can you make this happen, a Google Street View like tour of every accessible place on the ship. And 360 camera shots of any special places only accessible in dry dock. Could be amazing.
Navy Contract:
You may NOT re-activate the engines and give site seeing cruises up and down the coast.
You may not reactivate the main guns and let people see if they can score the longest hole in 1 shot.
You may not.......
Right there with ya. I would turn into a kid in a candy store real quick, and I hate to admit it, but Drach and Ryan would get tired of me, lol.
Fire all your gun z at once : an explode into space
Not hours on end. He said one hour.
You may not...
Test the anti-aircraft systems on the convenient stream of traffic taking off from PHL.
Determine the full effects of the ship's radars on cell phones of passersby.
See how many car alarms you can set off using the ship's horn.
@@Wolfeson28 spoiled sport lol
@5:42 FYI - the website has been updated to say "If you don’t have steel-toed shoes, we will provide a steel-toe shoe slip-on for your tour." So you don't need to run out and buy steel toed boots for the tour.
But do remember to bring sturdy boots! Steel toe add-ons do not work with tennis shoes!
I worked with Ryan (the New Jersey's curator) briefly when we were both at another historic ship museum (whose name should not be uttered where it could act as advertising, in my un-humble opinion) and he is very good chap, knows his stuff cold. Enjoy your tour with him, Drach & fans!
I served on CG-51, USS Thomas S. Gates, a Ticonderoga class Guided Missile Cruiser. I was on board for 2 drydock periods. It is a completely different view when you can walk under your ship. Drydocked, both times, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth.
Enjoy your videos. Just a little historical note for you. When you were on USS New Jersey in Paulsboro, you were about a half mile from the site of the first land purchase by the Continental Congress. It was where a fort was built on the Delaware to protect Philly from the Royal Navy. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
Though Augusta (mere 64 that she might have been) was the largest British ship lost in action in either Revolution or War of 1812
That would be Fort Billings, I presume? There is a park there, next to an oil refinery, the neighborhood is called Billingsport.
Drachs love for the Big J shows up once more, thank you for the support of this wonderful Ship. I wish I had the coin to join you on this so I want to express my gratitude to the fan that provided the opportunity of the raffle.
Am thrilled to be a Saturday restoration volunteer in normal times and a volunteer on tours in the yard. Thanks to Drach for sharing more love and supporting USS NEW JERSEY!
The tyranny of distance, New Jersey is not exactly a stone's throw from Australia, strikes yet again, where had I been closer, I would have avidly gone on several of these drydock tours, as the IOWA's are just the epitome of classic WWII styles, lines and design, even after the numerous modernisations....they still have that beautiful heavyset canvas....just gorgeous ships that we will never see the likes of again.
Cheers from Sydney Aus!!!!!
If you are visiting Philadelphia for this, you also can save yourself the expense of a rental car, you can get around pretty easily with ubers and the subway. Assuming your hotel is in Center City:
to get to the meetup you can take the PATCO (red) line to the City Hall stop in Camden, and it's about a 10 minute walk to the pub from there. If you aren't near a red line stop, you can take the blue line to 8th street and transfer to the red (though beware that they are two separate systems, and you'll need to buy another ticket)
to get to the Battleship via transit, there are 2 options. the easier and faster is to take the Broad Street line (orange line) south to NRG station, and it will be about a 20-30 minute walk to the drydock itself. If you don't want to walk that much, the 17 bus will pick you up on Market Street in Center City, and will drop you off right at the navy yard, though its a bus so will be slower
If anyone has any questions about how to get around on transit, I am happy to help
Good luck yo everyone entering, I'd love to have a tour but flying to Philly is a bit beyond my budget so I'll have to be content with tours in the UK.
AHHH!!! I'll miss you by 1 short hour! We already have tickets for a dry dock tour at 4 on the 25th
I'll probably still be hanging around!
@@Drachinifel My dad and I are so excited about the tour!
I'd be probably a boring guest but I live an hour SW of Philly and I am willing to drop my plans and head north for the dry dock tours.
Hope to see some of you in new jersey... So some Philadelphia experiment shenanigans are involved
If I had the weekend off, I would consider coming back to see it out of the water for a second time!
With some of the drydocking ingress photos, I can imagine New Jersey is going to its next reactivation... But I'm glad she'll always (probably 😉) be a museum ship.
FWIW since my days in the mines and in navy drydocks-- if you can get to a red wing shoes store you will find they sell excellent steel Safety toe boots (Men and Women sizes + wide and styles) and their prices have not inflated like food staples, tuition, etc but they are still in the $150-270 range
We did the dry dock tour last week and it was so cool. We had a great time.
That goody bag is full of ship's biscuit, isn't it. Left over from the episode when you made some.
Wrapping everything up at The Victor's is Perfect!!! that's the favorite spot for the ships Wednesday Volunteers, Myself included, to stop at for lunch after our time on the ship every week.
Always outstanding content.
63 is cutest
I'd love to go. I'm even doing wonderously on my weightloss - I'm down over five stone already. While it's likely I'd be able to handle those stairs (not at anything resembling speed, perhaps) there's a possibility that I'd have problems. Prudence, alas, suggests that my drydock tours should remain virtual.
Major kudos to the generous donor who has sponsored those tickets. And thank you for your donation of your time to do this.
As an ungrateful colonial from across the pond, I salute your avoidance of metric measurements.
@@darrellsmith4204 er. . . I believe we're on the same side of the pond, and I would much prefer metric measurements in most aspects of life.
I choose obfuscating Imperial measurements as I feel some embarrassment as well as pride about the scale of weight loss I'm working on. 😅
@@OtakuLoki In that case congrats on losing 30,000 grams.
@@darrellsmith4204 Thank you! And at least twice as many to go. But for the first time it seems possible.
Awesome Drach. I already have plans to go up with friends but otherwise I would love to win! Have a good time!
Interesting seeing an Iowa battleship alongside whatever that big grey thing is in the thumbnail. She's kinda smaller than I imagined!
Hey Drach, once things settle down you should do an interview with Ryan about how the youtube channel has affected the museum.
Make sure you guys get a Philly Cheesesteak while you're in town - lots of good spots near the Navy Yard - Tony and Nick's Steaks is my favorite in that part of town, but any of them are great.
Cheesesteaks are a mess of cheap fatty meat fried with processed cheese. Served in soggy bread. Repulsive. As I live one block from the city’s well known cheesesteak establishments I recommend a hard pass to any visitors to our not fair city.
@bebo4807 I've lived in Philly my entire life and have never had a Cheesesteak with soggy bread. Also, I do American cheese - whiz is gross. I've also never heard a native Philadelphian refer to cheesesteaks as "repulsive." Some are certainly better than others, but repulsive? You're certainly a minority in that regard. That or you're vegan or something.
@Kevin_Kennelly Haha I'm glad it wasn't just me - I thought that post was odd. And yes I did see that about Jim's - that's awesome. Having grown up in Northeast Philly, I was always a Steve's fan, but I've really never had a bad one anywhere in the city.
The Iowa and the Wisconsin havent been drydocked since being mothballed so its likely we'll see them get similar treatment in the future, unless they just get scrapped so I can hope I'll have a chance to see one of those in the future. In any event i would love to see the NJ one day.
True, but both were in Navy hands until the 2010's, so with only just over a decade as museum ships under their belt, they'll likely not go to drydock for quite some time, and not every dockyard will allow tours :)
@@Drachinifel And theres no chance of there being a tour with anyone as entertaining as yourself or Ryan Semanski of the battleship new Jersey musuem and memorial.
I wish I could go but its just too distant for me. If you ever make it to USS Hornet I'll be sure to come to that tour!
If I was not having my shoulder rebuilt, I would love to do this tour, i will most likely be able to make a Drac tour of USS Salem. Yes listening to Drac Ramble on for hours would be awsome
I went two weeks ago. Great time. Highly recommend.
Thanks Drach.
Hoping I can make one of the last drydock tours.
Drach - that is kind of you to volunteer your time. My wife and I have a regular tour booked for May 26. I do not think we can change it. If we see you, we’ll wave :-)
I'll be there all day, so if I'm not in the drydock itself feel free to snag me :)
Dang ill be on the bourbon trail
Drach, during one of your visits to the Philadelphia area, maybe you could shoot some video and do a series on the campaign to seize Philadelphia and secure control of the river during the American War for Independence? The Royal Navy vs. The Pennsylvania Navy and the system of forts and barriers.
If I hadn't already done the tour last weekend I'd be more tempted to spend the extra to do the Drach tour. (Though I did get to at least see Ryan as I headed in to get processed for the regular tour; however he was talking with another museum person so I didn't interrupt to say hi)
I’ll pass. Back in 1975, I got a free dry dock tour of USS Nimitz while she was in the Portsmouth (VA) Naval Shipyard, as crew. Did come with a lot of painting and cable pulling, tho.
If only!. . .
Sadly, even if I could afford it, it would be problematic - while I'm sure my wheelchair could get down the steps, I doubt if either it or myself would have a particularly comfortable trip, be serviceable at the bottom, or capable of returning to the quayside ambulance that would be required without a very difficult and expensive recovery operation.
Best of luck to all who enter, and best wishes for an enjoyable experience to all who can make the trip.
Of all the weekends! Already have family plans and the wife might forcibly remove appendages if I tried to skip out! My best to the lucky winners!
Thanks for the donation Drach! 👍🏻
It would great to be at the meet-up! Thx Drach!
Long way from Oz. Someone else can have my ticket.
6:00 Man, even if she's not under her own power, that's beautiful to see...
Some tour attendees having wild dreams of locking drach in a room in bowls of new jersey to finally contemplate the machinations and feasibility of a half turbine half coal powered dynamite gun armed battle cruiser equipped with lattice masts and non rotating projectile launchers for 2 hours... 😅
Hi Drach Sadly i can't make it to any of the tours but could it be possible that you and ryan do 1 or more colab videos on any topic on site about the ship?
thanks in advance for your time and all the amazing knowledge you feed us with.
*fires up USS New Jersey's engines*
USN "You can't do that"
"Well I'm in a battleship and you're not."
"We have jets and missiles and you don't" tho.
@@TrappedinSLC well I have a note from my mother saying I can...and you dont...
@@talthan “Please let my son run the battleship’s engine. Signed, Epstein’s Mom.” 😂
@@DABrock-author Need Mr Kotters permision slip for that
"i need to borrow your boat" is the magic incantation... and off go the boilers😂❤
How times have moved on - a BB is dwarfed by a supply ship.
yeah i found that photo funny, it's weird to see a BB dwarfed like that
Yeah tonnage sure has inflated over the years.
when NJ was built biggest transport & merchant was around the 10,000 ton mark ish...
Now merchants and transport ships have gotten way bigger.
Even in her heyday, she was big but not excessively big. For instance, the Yorktown class aircraft carriers look visually much larger, despite being less than half of the displacement, due to the amount of ship above the waterline. In designing a BB, you actually want it as small as practical to make it a more difficult target.
Does the Universe go into a recursion loop if Drach does a DryDock episode from inside a Drydock?
Bravo! ...dude! Ask the captain to name a bilge punp after you ! ...
I miss seeing the Missouri on a regular basis in Bremerton. The tour was disappointing.
If a vet that served on that ship, or possibly any vet, showed up in a wheelchair or unable to navigate the stairs, and wanted down there, i have a feeling someone would make it happen. I hope they would.
Thanks 👍
I’m the one that complained about the price. I am still gonna try to find drach on the way out…. It’s totally worth it tho
Drach goodies could be years old salted meat experiments
I'm in the middle of a refueling outage and can't make any of the tours... As a former shipyard worker, I would love to see footage of her sea chests. A weird request to some, probably.
One of my uncles served on the New Jersey
I know the United States is a little bit confusing but USS New Jersey is dry docked in Philadelphia which is actually in the state of Pennsylvania which is right next to the State of New Jersey.
It's in Camden nj
*THANK YOU IN ADVANCE* for your contribution of knowledge, time, and kind.
*Officially NOT a question for future discussion* - speculate on an imaginary confrontation between a US Polaris submarine and the Spanish Armada, where John Paul Jones (he was senior) stands in for George Dewey because Chester Nimitz relieved him for medical reasons.
Officially, JK. But revenge for all the strange questions asked of experts on CZcams.
Alex, for all you do - 🖖 !!!
I imagine that if the SSBN has launch authority, and intel on the location of the Armada, that would be a very short engagement. However, the collateral damage might not be acceptable.
Without launch authority, it would be tricky. Not sure how many torpedoes an SSBN carries, but I doubt it's more than a couple of dozen, probably fewer. Ramming is probably not a recommended tactic...
😂
Life is full of disappointments. Currently scheduled for cardiac bypass surgery in the near future, with limited physical restrictions at this time. I HIGHLY suggest to any and all that have the slightest interest and the capability(monetary and physically) to do this tour posthaste!
Unfortunately for me already been and there is little chance of me winning the lottery and buying another 1000 US ticket plus either vehicle gas and toll roads and or air fair for one day. That said for those of you who do go Enjoy!
I wish I still lived in Philly, I would be there in a heartbeat.....tho Camden is a very sketchy place.
Yo, Philly!
Years ago, a friend was touring Europe.
She'd gone from Greece over to Italy, where she landed in Brindisi.
At the time, "Polo Brindisi" was a popular, cheap wine.
She said, "Naming a wine 'Polo Brindisi' is like calling it 'Polo Camden'."
that part of camden is fine
Kinda sad, I'm going to be in Philly for a week, but will probably not have time to visit.
Wish I could visit her in drydock, but unfortunately I am living in Europe and transatlantic travel is a bit expensive.....
And on the underside of the New Jersey could be a small spray painted "Drach was here" right next to Ryan's name with "MINE, MINE, MINE!😜
Of course this idea would never occur to Ryan or Drach, well not until I mentioned it
Submitted my entry!
If BB62 was hypothetically reactivated; who the heck in gun range could stop her? ( given adequate staffing for guns present?)
Is it cheaper if I bring my own hard hat?
Those tours have to be expensive to help pay for the dry docking service
5th, 3 May 2024
Dammit. I'm gonna be in Germany at the time.
Wrong ship Cher was on Missouri
Why are cassons used instead of gates?
6:38 what is the ship to the right of the New Jersey? How big is it? It’s making a battleship look small!
That is the Charles L. Gilliland. It was towed out shortly after you posted your comment. As of May 16, 2024 it shows as being in Bayonne, NJ. While it was in Philadelphia the scuttlebutt was that it was waiting for a replacement propeller. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Charles_L._Gilliland
@@SomeRandomHuman717 thank you
What is that ship that makes New Jersey look small?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Charles_L._Gilliland
I would never set foot in the State of New Jersey.......................
New Jersey is in Pennsylvania right now, LOL
Why is it in the contract with the navy to not start the engines?
Is it so they take it on a cruise then some other nation can't capture it?
Ryan goes over this on the Battleship New Jersey channel. Basically, to run any of the steam plan you have to remove the preservatives that are protecting them, so they start degrading immediately - and the ship must be able to be re-activated by the US Navy. Also they don't want people using a battleship as their personal yacht.
Note that USS Texas could have her steam plant re-activated, it's only the later fast BB's that have this restriction.
Probably because of reasons and maybe potential of reactivation again and they'd rather have the engines sat untouched and idle than trampled all over.
Basically everything on the ship can be repaired except the engines. If those deteriorate or break down due to inexperienced volunteers......you don't have a battleship anymore. Least not one that's real useful. Not to mention the costs would be unbelievably expensive for a non-profit to try to raise and keep up. Right now New jersey takes about 10,000 dollars a day to keep in her static museum condition. And a good chunk of that actually comes from the state of New Jersey. When in operation she cost about a million dollars a day to run...........while it's unlikely the ship will ever return to active service. It's even more unlikely a billionaire will decide to fund the cost of turning the ship into a sight seeing yacht. And if they did they'd probably buy out the contract outright and make it a private affair.
What is the ship that dwarfs the New Jersey at the seven-minute mark?
Its a Watson class sealift vehicle, not sure which one though. It was in drydock just before the NJ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Charles_L._Gilliland - a Gordon-class roro
The drydock is in Pennsylvania
:)
Shut up and take my money!!!
P.S. This is from an episode of Futurama, and it's just a joke.
Funds and logistics are both against me, unfortunately. I would like to see her out of the water, but alas, it's not to be.
Well sorry for you even if I am in the same place as you 😉 Well just be paand wait the videos 😉
$1000 for a tour😂 Wow, that museum is very greedy.
That explains it. Ryan got his attitude from the New Jersey Board. No wonder he thinks people should give their money to him since he knows better how to use it than they do. Yes, one of his comments in one of his video rubbed me wrong to the point I stopped watching his videos.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
First view!