In The Drydock: First Look At The Ship On The Blocks
Vložit
- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
- In this episode we're getting our first look at the battleship out of the water.
To get your drydock merchandise:
www.battleshipnewjersey.org/s...
For all the details on drydock and to get your tickets:
www.battleshipnewjersey.org/d...
To send Ryan a message on Facebook: / ryanszimanski
To support the battleship's efforts to drydock, go to:
63691.blackbaudhosting.com/63...
The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the content creator only and may not reflect the views and opinions of the Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial, the Home Port Alliance for the USS New Jersey, Inc., its staff, crew, or others. The research presented herein represents the most up-to-date scholarship available to us at the time of filming, but our understanding of the past is constantly evolving. This video is made for entertainment purposes only.
Damn Philadelphia is rough.. those guys stole your water and left your battleship on blocks!
Can't have shit in Philly
I was thinking it would be something if they drained the water and someone stole the props.
Edit - Pst.. Bud. I have about 200 tons of propeller bronze. Are you interested?
@robertthomas5906 manganese bronze is some seriously expensive stuff... just sayin...
@@krockpotbroccoli65Gonna be tough explaining where you got the props from.
You got a real belly laugh from me on this comment
I give you so much credit for being able to say "bump her aft" without giggling.
Could have said spanking the old girl a few feet.
Good one for April fools. I got a laugh out of it.
Found the loser.
I also wanna bump New Jersey's aft, iykwim 😏
@@Look_What_You_Did Silence, peasant.
I think you realize that a dry docking of a battleship has never been so publicly documented before. Thanks, this process is really interesting.
Texas did a whole lot of documenting their project.
Battleship Texas and her crew would like to have some words with you…..there is *extensive* videography and drone camera footage of her work in the dry dock.
@@cruisinguy6024id also argue that tho new jersey is doing a lot to document her dry dock, texas has documented way more of their process. Tho the long time spent could also factor in
@@welcometowherever7475 I think Ryan has discussed a lot more of the mechanics / process of dry docking compared to the Texas at this point - whereas the Texas has extensively discussed their hull work. It’s not a fair comparison though because the work required to replace all the rotted hull on the Texas is *extensive* and her time in the yard is testament to that.
I do which Ryan would talk more about all the work being done but I assume those videos will be forthcoming as the projects are on going. I greatly appreciate the detailed content about docking plans, dry docking preparations, and so on.
I would expect more from the USS Texas team as they wrap things up. They certainly did a lot of documentation of the work which they just haven't had the opportunity to organize, edit and polish, yet.
Mr. Szimanski, you must be absolutely geeked about this rare opportunity to walk under your ship. Almost a once-in-a-career opportunity.
Definitely once-in-a-career!
almost...😄
I’m a Vietnam veteran and on my carrier’s return to North Island’s Naval Base in San Diego, I first saw the New Jersey at the Quay Wall. I said to myself that she looked like a greyhound doing 30 knots while tied to the dock! I’ve always thought that this class of battleship was the most beautiful ships ever made!
Agree !
Totally agree my dear friend by the way A nations gratitude is owed to you thank you
When the USS Missouri came to visit Western Australia, they parked it right out in front of my house.
Now that was an awesome sight.
USS Missouri is not an "it", USS Missouri is a "she". Ships, boats and aircraft are called "she" and "her" because they share certain characteristics with women. They are beautiful, lovable, unpredictable, and always, very very expensive.
did they have to pay for parking, or did they have a parking permit. Would have been a pain, if they had to wheelclamp it :)
@@johnjones5354 Well, Ships with male names are called 'he'
and since states are objects without a gender, I'd say 'it' should be acceptable in this case.
@@HauntedXXXPancake Negative. Ships in the US navy are referred to "She", regardless if a vessel is named after a male, state, city, historic battle, etc.
I hope you took pictures.
I usually see USS New Jersey everyday when I've taken the train across the Ben Franklin Bridge for the last 18 years. Sure am proud of the old girl. Take good care
I've worked in the Philly Navy Yard (well Aker but all the same) a few times on commercial new builds in the past few years. We were allowed to walk from the entrance gates all the way to our ship and back every day. As you made your way to the large drydock you would pass through all of the old foundry buildings, fabrication shops, gigantic hangar sized buildings all of them. All linked together by rail, and with their own sets of internal sub shops and internal gantry cranes that once moved subassemblies and forms being cranked out by the thousands in times of war. All empty now, completely quiet, in slow degradation and growing state of disrepair. You could almost feel the manufacturing might that once existed three, a place that could churn out a liberty ship in 30 days, and a destroyer in not much longer. Even in its state of virtual abandonment, it conveyed a sense of power that could not be denied. It was just sad to see it going without use - though we probably never want to see the scenario that would place it in that role again.
It's very fitting to see the New Jersey being tended to in the very yard that launched her, nearly a century later. I bet those guys carry a lot of pride in the world they're doing, and I appreciate the work you guys do to keep our Navy's history alive.
@wysoft: I am Philadelphia born and raised and have crossed all the Delaware river bridges more times than I could say. Toured New Jersey with my father (a WW II Army Combat Engineer who served in New Guinea and the Philippines) about eighteen years ago before he passed in 2007. He was especially impressed with seeing the ship up close, including Admiral Halsey's cabin as he well remembered when the New Jersey was in action in the Pacific. I very much agree with your sentiments about the sadness of seeing these once mighty facilities in disrepair. Sad to say, you could probably see such yards in China very much alive and very much in production today. I remember the incredible, gigantic steel works in Bethlehem, now razed to the ground, and the immense Buick manufacturing complex in Flint, MI, now also vanished. Phoenix Steel in Claymont, DE and Phoenixville, PA, and Lukens in Coatesville and the Fairless works of U S Steel. Now all gone or foreign-owned. Our country's vacant-minded leadership (of both parties and most corporations) has adopted a very short-sighted and foolish mentality that we are now somehow a more "advanced" economy by being "post-industrial" and outsourcing the bulk of our manufacturing. Yeah, great idea, until your "suppliers" decide that they want to hold you hostage to their own national interest and you realize that you don't have the capacity to defend yourself any more. Our youth have been brought up to believe that any job that does not require a college degree or in which you have to get your hands dirty is somehow "beneath them" and have been conned into going into crippling amounts of debt to get worthless degrees for which there are no well-paying jobs available. Meanwhile trade jobs and industrial jobs go begging, and so manufacturers go overseas where they can find a workforce willing to work for what they can afford to pay and remain competitive. (Speaking of Buick, today, 80% of all Buicks sold are sold in China. EIGHTY percent...and climbing How much do you think GM cares about the American market anymore or building cars here? I guarantee you, not as much as they once did.) Does anyone seriously believe that the United States of today could mount an industrial effort on anything like the scale of World War II? Sadly, that ship has sailed. (pun intended.)
@therealniksongs I have been to several shipyards in China and while for sure they are industrious I wouldn't say anything about them was inspiring. They're an odd mix of modern production technology with 19th century approach to safety and a total disregard for workers' well being - even our yards back then weren't like that, but then again, that's why they outproduce us at every turn. The rest of what you say is spot on
@@wysoft I did not mean to hold them up as a model, and I certainly take you at your word as having seen them first hand. My intention was only to point out that they are busy as hell building ships. What are WE doing?
@@therealniksongs You have precisely outlined the position of the West today. Living as I do 200 km from the Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian borders, this does not make one feel comfortable. The short sightedness of capitalists is nothing short of suicidal and utterly criminal.
@@therealniksongsNot a chance we could spool up that capability. Read the book called Freedoms Forge and it outlines (easy to read btw) how FDR picked Bill Knudsen to spearhead our war time build up. WW1 method was a disaster, Bill knew what needed to be done, let business do what they do best and decide what each of them could build on their own then get out of the way.
That hull looks in really good shape. Good work Long Beach Naval Shipyard.
Love the USS Texas but can definitely see some major differences here absolutely.
@@georgedoolittle9015 steel is much better than texas's
@@georgedoolittle9015 well to be fair uss TX has another world war under her belt and 3+more decades of wear n tear vs the Iowa's. 👍🏻
Indeed; they did a wonderful job building the ship, too.
yes, better steel, much younger ship, and she had some decent intervals in her service life where she was well preserved for her time in decom.@@georgedoolittle9015
That sounds like an apprentice prank "go grab me an imperial keel block. And a bucket of prop wash while you're there"
ahh yes. as acabinet maker we would send our new uns for ..glass hammers,sky hooks and ,my favourite ." go ask old ronnie for a long stand".. haa.. many yrs ago. probably end up sacked and sued nowadays
I'm 71 now, & remember standing my very first watch aboard a warship as an extremely keen 13 year old cadet man o'wars man seadog.
I was placed on anchor watch, the ship was tied up at its pier, & the anchor that needed watching was chained down hard to the foredeck.
What, no relative bearing grease or sound powered phone batteries?
Or a bucket of steam@@johnjones5354
don't forget 6 feet of chow line
This must be a total relief for Ryan - they got the funds, the got the ship down(or up) the river and into the dry dock and the ship is resting nicely on it's blocks. That's a lot of things that could have gone catostrphically wrong, and they've all gone well enough to be called a success.
Well done Ryan and team.
We’ve all been chipping in and watching the videos the past couple of years.
Beautiful shots of the ship! My Dad would be proud to see her in dry dock, as he helped build her back in the early 40s. He always loved that ship. Thank you so much for your attention to her well being. Long may she be a proud reminder of what the US Navy and the civilians who built her accomplished back then.
Even tho it's through mud, she looks so GOOD! There aren't big bumps, the blades look clean, and her rudders are mint! Appreciated the pictures with the curator refference height!!!
Yeah, she looks OK considering how long it's been since she was docked before
As a young LT, I was the Communications Officer onboard New Jersey. After our last deployment (and right after Iraq invaded Kuwait,) we put her in drydock for her decommissioning yard period at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in California.
The day before we entered drydock, the Navy had a contractor come in and scrub the hull clean, an evolution that cost roughly one million dollars at the time.
To me, it made no sense to pay that much money to clean the hull when we were going to strip all the paint off it starting the next day.
My father, a retired navy captain, had been the Commander of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for the Missouri's recommissioning, so I asked him about it. He told me that when the Navy pays a contractor to clean all the marine growth off a ship, the material removed can be let to just drop to the bottom of the harbor; if it is removed in drydock, it is considered HAZMAT by California law and must be handled/processed accordingly. In the case of New Jersey, as large as she is, that would be roughly three million dollars' worth of HAZMAT disposal. Guess the Navy had it right.
BTW, dad was the production officer at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in the 1980's, while they were doing the Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) work on all the Forrestal class carriers. At the time, I was in high school at St. John Neumann in South Philly (quite the culture shock for a Navy brat...) and we lived in "Quarters "O"" on the Philadelphia Naval Station, right down the street from the drydock that New Jersey is in now. As difficult as it was to live in Philly, the view from our front porch, across the Delaware River and including all the refinery lights (which we called Emerald City,) was gob smacking to all my high school buddies that grew up on the gritty streets of South Philly.
I remember Captain Fink. He succeeded Captain Gildea as shipyard commander. Capt Janov succeeded your dad.
Great story
Philly is not difficult to live in. You just gotta embrace it and then you'll love it.
So you where one of the last "Spark's" to send messages from the Battle Wagon .
For a ship that hasn't been in dry dock in over 30 years, the underside of the hull looks immaculate.
I can’t believe how good she looks!
I know right? Incredibly clean. There's no visible bump, no outstanding rust patches... she's well taken care of.
Yeah, so much better than Texas
It looks good but in reality it is quite deteriorating. I work in that yard.
I imagine if she was in salt water her hull would look quite a bit different
@@cruisinguy6024 HMCS Haida (Canada's prime museum warship) is also in fresh water, but needed her underbelly replaced a few years ago anyway. And to do that, the federal Minister of Heritage held her to ransom, the exchange being that she would be moved to the Minister's hometown (Hamilton) !
Its so incredibly amazing how people can actually handle putting a ship that huge on to blocks at all. The ship is so massive. Im still so impressed with thr size of the iowa class battleship. Its way bigger in person the camera dont do it justice. Its literally like a city inside. I cant imagine how difficult it is designing a ship that big. Trying to make sure its strong enough to hols together with all that weight. Battleships are so impressive to me. I want to thank everyone involved keeping bb new jersey in good shape and allowing us to visit the ship. We are so lucky to have the ship for a museum
It's so great to see my old haunt. Yes, I was a yardbird at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from January 14, 1981 to April 16, 1994. I miss that place so very much, so many memories, and comrades. Nice to see The Big J getting some tender loving care in her old home from where she was built. I was in 56 shop, Marine Pipefitters. I want to say hello to all of my fellow yardbirds of past, present and future. Thank Ryan for posting your shows on CZcams.
Please keep these videos coming for those of us who don't have the opportunity for an in-person tour!
The underside looks good at the first look, but we'll see it much better after bottom cleaning. That's one helluva scraping job... all that growth!
Not as bad as I thought it would be. Maybe it'll be worse with a closeup.
@@robertthomas5906 That's because she's been sitting in (for the most part) fresh water rather than salt water. Stuff still grows in it but not as quickly as in sea water.
There are videos here on youtube showing bottom cleaning of ships and boats using power washers. It’s amazingly effective.
@@markam306there’s a lot of modern tools to simplify and lower the cost of hull cleaning, but I don’t think Ryan has ever mentioned cleaning the hull so my suspicion is they haven’t done so.
@@cruisinguy6024 They would have pressure washed her to remove organic growth and slime, but old paint and rust needs mechanical removal.
“Keep the mud hydrated” 😂😂 a sentence I did not expect to hear today
It's important to keep the mud looking youthful.
DANG! For a ship that’s been ‘sitting’ for so many years her hull looks to be in spectacular condition!!!
Because she's been in fresh water not sea water
@@drunksquirrel2051 Yeah, but it's in NJ/NY waste water! Far more corrosive than salt water.
I had the honor of unreping BB62 in the Tonkin Gulf many times while serving aboard AO 62 USS Taluga. New Jersey is amazingly beautiful and impressive when underway.
Considering it is April fools day, I was expecting you to show how you are using memory foam pillows on the Keel Blocks, so they can match the contour of the ship.....
That view of the stern with the screws and skegs and rudders is so amazing. What power! That space between the skegs invites me and terrifies me, 50,000 tons over my head sitting on Leggos , no thanks.
I got to our the drydock in Japan when USS Midway (CV-41) was there 1973-4-5, and it was the weirdest damn feeling, even thinking it was possible for it to crash down and spread me around like butter. Dark as hell -- 120 foot beam, I think, 880 foot waterline length, and I don't remember having to bend over underneath it, but it was very strange. I too urge anyone who can to take the tour. You will never forget it.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005I love boats and ships but I have a thing about being under them / next to them in the water. I seriously can’t imagine being UNDER one in dry dock, but I suppose the silver lining is in case of catastrophic failure you wouldn’t feel a thing.
Although just my luck I’d be on the edge of the collapse zone and die a horrifying slow death.
lordy!@@grizwoldphantasia5005
Any shipyard workers care to comment? Is this a real concern? Do ships often (or ever) fall off the blocks and squish people?
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 Less like butter and more like a dump truck hitting a ketchup packet on the highway. Should be no more terrifying than entering any 20 story building, just less carpet.
It's midnight here in the Uk. but it's well worth staying up to see New Jersey on the blocks . As a preliminary look the bottom paint looks in remarkably good condition after 30 years . I don't know about fresh water but it usually takes a while after washing out the mud for the smell to go away with sea water . I'm sure it's been a busy Easter for Ryan and it was interesting to hear him talk about the blocks . I'm looking forward to finding out more about this great ship .
The key is landing the weight on the internal framing so that the shell plating isn’t damaged. I’ve been around vessels that were landed between the frames instead of on the frames and the dents were the obvious result of it.
Wow - she looks like she's in pretty good shape!!!!! I'm sure resting in a fresh water river helps a great deal.
I remember when the USS Missouri was here in Vancouver BC in 1988 anchored in the inner harbor they assigned her a special Anchorage because this has been a logging town since 1886 there are a large number of chokers and cable on the harbor bottom and HMS Hood actually lost one of her anchors on a port call here in the 1920s ,presumably it's still there ,wherever there is? ,I was impressed with the huge beam (width) of Missouri when looking straight on at the bow (front)
I took the dry dock tour of the Texas last June. It was SOOO worth it
I worked on a floating drydock in Guam , M.I. and this will blow you away to see one of these magnificent ships upp out of the water 💧!
Will be flying in Friday for a tour on Saturday afternoon. Can’t wait to experience this.
Hey me too!
I'm coming back to this to ask you in a week how it was Sir.... What an experience 🇺🇸
@@BCaldwell It was amazing to see it out of the water and be able to touch it. To me, standing on the top of the ground looking at the ship, it seemed smaller than I expected. Once down at the bottom, it was very large. Great time.
What a enormous ship love it! Iam surprised how well her hull still looks after not beeing in drydock for such a long time! Iam from the Netherlands i hope i can visit her someday i really do..
Ryan in full blown geek mode standing under his baby! ❤❤❤
I remember seeing a Battleship in drydock in 1988? in the Norfolk SY While I was assigned to the USS Saratoga, great experience seeing that and the carrier in drydock. I wish I had a better understanding when I was so young. I wish i remembered what Battleship that was Maybe the Wisconsin? I do not know where the BBs were all stationed.
I’m sure either Ryan or some channel viewers know exactly which ship that was in 1998. I don’t think it was the Wisconsin, I just looked and she was in dry dock in Mississippi for her recommissioning
Was a line runner the day it had dry docked. What a wonderful experience and honor to help start the restoration of this beauty.
If the plan for dry docking worked perfectly 100 years ago, that is a good reason to stick with the plan today. This is going to be a once in a lifetime "At Least For Me" to watch and enjoy. Thank you Ryan and everyone with the NJ for all that you do. PJ
Yes, depending on how much the mass and weight distribution have changed due to alterations.
@@pdmacguire a tiny %age. Did you not listen?
@@pdmacguireThe NJ is about 10,000 tons less than it was when she was built and in the same dry dock. Shalom
Hats off to the engineers and men that built these magnificent Iowa class battleships. It's reason for being to kill an enemy is terrible but at the same time the knowledge and wisdom was some how given to us to protect the innocent..
She was built during a war we didn’t ask for and did not start. She looks like freedom to me.
Propellers, rudders, and hull look amazing. So nice to see how well the ship looks underwater. Did not expect to see in such good condition.
Never worked in a shipyard, but to me simply "bumping" anything that's 45,000 tones is darn impressive. My compliments to the yard workers making this happen. Thank you for the updates, Ryan!
This channel is the best battleship info available anywhere. Thank you Ryan and staff!!
So much thought goes into taking care of this old beauty, the age of battleships needs to make a return. Battleships used to be a symbol of power, and solidarity. And im glad we still appreciate the ones we do have. They deserve it.
I mean it'd be cool of they returned except they're pretty useless.
@@admiralmallard7500 a battleship with modern technology? Might be useless, but idk.
Arsenal ships are a concept, but they're also extremely expensive and a huge blow if lost
@@admiralmallard7500 true
Got my dry dock ticket 🎫 and I’m looking forward to this opportunity! I haven’t been in a dry dock in a quarter century when we were doing maintenance on our submarine. Thanks, Ryan for all you do to keep history alive!
She looks good enough to activate and rejoin the rest of the fleet!!!👍👍
She missing lots of items and is gotten a weakened frame somewhere if I remember. I guess the Texas is even worse, a hull with tons of rust inside. And a paper thin hull.
$$$$$$$
I really appreciate how you've been willing to repeat things in these drydock videos that you know you've covered in the past, for new viewers who might not have watched all the videos in your archive =) This is a great series. Videos just short enough but still full of fascinating stuff. Keep it up, and good sailing when you get back afloat!
Thank you Ryan Szimanski for the excellent explanation on how you put such a huge ship up on blocks in a dry dock. A salute to all the men and women keeping the old ship in good condition.
Ryan,
I can’t express how much I enjoy your videos.
I do have one small point, on this side of the pond we use US Customary Units. Imperial is not us, example: US gallon vs imperial gallon. In life at sea we agree with our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic: nautical mile, knots, fathoms for depth, and most important the Long Ton.
Keep up the good work.
I guess the world was divided into degrees, minutes and seconds so long ago thats its stuck hard. Even in NZ where we've been metric since the 60s, as soon as we sail it's all about nautical miles, cables, degrees and every other imperial measurement. It baffles the land lubber thats for sure!
Yes, there's a difference between US and Imperial units usage. As for nautical miles and knots, those are universal, based on angular arcs measured in degrees, minutes and seconds, which have been used by almost everybody since the Babylonians invented degrees. A nautical mile is the length of the arc subtending one minute of latitude on the Earth's surface, and a knot is the speed of one nautical mile per hour. Thus the distance scale on a marine chart is simply the latitude scale up the sides of the chart. The natural mathematical unit of arc measure, however, is the radian, with a full rotation of 360 degrees corresponding to 2 * PI radians.
Aviation is another profession that have standardized on specific measurements: distance in nautical miles, speed in knots, altitude in thousands of feet, and fasteners in standard SAE sizes. Fuel is measured in weight, which is in pounds mass in the USA. The last time I heard a barometer reading called it was in inches of mercury, but I’m unsure how widely this is used.
Old techniques that work are techniques that work. As much as I love fancy new ways of doing things sometimes the old ways are still the way to go.
A 1921 drydock. Incredible in itself.
The New Jersey was trending on TwitterX today !!
I was on USS FDR in 1964 when we were dry docked in Bayonne, NJ to replace a screw. I was amazed at the precision that is used to get those huge ships aligned and set on blocks. BTW I was also attended the Re-Commissioning of New Jersey in 1968 in Philly. Always have good thoughts about BB 62
Some calcs for fun, assuming a hull load of 45,000 tons (from the website)
Keel Block 1:
42x48in = 3.5*4ft = 14 ft^2
QTY: 411
411 * 14 = 5754 ft^2
KB2: 20x48in = 1.67*4ft = 6.68 ft^2
QTY: 11
6.68 * 11 = 73.5 ft^2
KB3: 42x36in = 10.5 ft^2
QTY: 4
=42 ft^2
KB4: 42x(30-38) ~ 9 ft^2
QTY: 3
= 27 ft^2
Summed up (from the original plans) thats:
5754+73.5+42+27 ft^2 = 5897 ft^2
(45,000 short tons) / (5897 ft^2) = 7.63 tons/ft^2 on the blocks.
So on the first size keel block you have ~107 tons total supported, or 214,000 lbs.
If the block size is the same as KB1 and you're only using 302 of them that number jumps to 10.6 tons/ft^2, or 149 short tons total per block, 298,000 lbs. Thats as much as a 787-9 airliner on each of them. Keep in mind these numbers are a little bit higher because of the ballast water that was pumped in before dry docking.
These updates are great, keep them coming and I hope to visit while its on drydock!
This looks amazing. Fab to see NJ looking so comfortable on the blocks and in such good condition. Can’t wait for the next video :)
man, its crazy seeing how much the hull deforms on those blocks, and the fact that it will come back to its normal shape is pretty awesome.
I work at a Naval shipyard, been there 35 years. I see ships and submarines come in to the drydock here all the time. It never gets old and walking under a warship is very cool. We have different style keel blocks. The cribbing on ours is held with spikes shaped like giant staples.
Fantastic video Ryan & Crew! From the looks of her she appears in fine shape! Looking forward to more video since 150 steps down and up is a no-go. I got my T-shirt though!
I have followed the channel for a number of years and i never thought i would see her in drydock. Fantastic
I work in Devonport Dockyard in the UK we use a Hydraulic keel block system,we can move blocks for blasting and painting as we need to no need to refloat and move the ship.
So glad to have the chance to take the drydock tour later this month. Can't wait to see it in person.
planning on touring the dry dock this sat at 2;15 tour very exciting to be able to do this in my lifetime . next chance i might get ill probably be 90 if t all .
Thank you, that was a pleasure watching. Such a mighty machine, awesome.
I’m amazed at how good her bottom looks! When my ship was dry docked her bottom looked considerably worse and she was only 3 years between dockings and was in active use pretty much the whole time… that’s some good bottom paint they put on there!
Looks like all of it is mud.. hard to tell.. like the ship was dragged in mud
Keep in mind she’s been sitting in fresh water this entire time since her last dry docking.
This is so exciting!!!
Well done to you and your team
Good luck moving it forward. Blocks that are cracked now tend to come apart when refloating, even though they have the metal bands. For subs, you tend to lose a few on refloating, and they break apart and float up. So don't be surprised.
Do you work at EB in Groton, CT or Newport News VA? Or perhaps on the west coast? I worked at EB Groton in the early 1970's building ballast tanks for the subs in the shipbuilder trade.
@themister3865 Nah, retired submariner with more than my share of dockings.
I did a double take when he said they were going to move the ship. The Navy just gets the missed spots under the blocks in the next docking. Did time in Chasn, Groton, Norfolk and Puget Sound.
Thank you for your service, sir!@@williamorton7600
@@williamorton7600he’s discussed before how the navy will just do the next block plan next dry dock but seeing how they aren’t docking it as often as the Navy did they’re doing the whole hull now while they’re at it so they can wait another 30 years or so before returning. It’s cheaper and more efficient for a museum to get it all done at once.
That was fascinating. I was on USS Enterprise (CVN-65) when she underwent a complex overhaul in Bremerton Washington form 1979 to 1982. I JUST missed her in drydock when I arrived but I always wondered how they painted the areas covered by the blocks. I kind of assumed the only way to do it would be to refloat, move, drain the dock but no one confirmed that for me when I was on the Enterprise.
While in the US Navy I served on a floating dry dock. My division was responsible for setting up the dock basin, with the keel and bilge blocks. The first information we wanted to know of the inbound ship to be dry docked, is their last docking position, A B or C. The different positions would tell us how to set up. If the last was C that would determine the new position to sit the ship on. There would be no paint on the bottom of the old position. Sorry for the book, I just got excited with all the dry dock talk.
I've been so excited to see this video!!! thanks for the content and all the work you do!
Awesome Video! Thanks Brother. She Looks Great. What a Beautiful Ship!
Thank you!
Just so great to see this every day. 😊
What a beautiful site looking at her hull. It looks like it's really in good shape from the pictures. But I'm sure there will be more pictures in detail regarding the hull. All in all, Ryan and volunteers you have done a great job keeping history of the ship in good shape.
This nine-minute video answered so many questions. Thank you.
I have been watching for a couple years. Glad to see the view count.
Ryan's dream of conquering the Mid-Atlantic coast moves forward!
The ship will not be renamed after himself but the pirate flag will fly one day!
I, for one, would like to see a tour of the 100 year old dry dock's machinery rooms. The pump rooms and the mechanism for open and closing the gates. While operating would be fantastic. Thanks Ryan for all you do.
There are so many cool dynamics to battleships. Glad you are documenting them on this channel. Hope you can document as much as possible!
Fascinating! Thanks Ryan!
Incredible to see those monster sized props!
Thank you for this explanation
Amazing job team. Honestly during Covid the talk of dry docking was a pipe dream
Phenomenal ❤
That is an absolutely amazing sight! I so appreciate the efforts to not only preserve her but to document everything so well and share that with everyone! Wow! Just WOW! I know there's larger ships out there but that is one big and impressive boat up on those blocks! Best of luck and hope all goes well.
Excellent Job Captain. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm a newer subscriber and find this very impressive. Being from Maine, I have relatives that work at Bath Iron Works and have seen some amazing ships made there. Thanks for these amazing videos
learning more every day
Thank Ryan
Saw another of the class in the graving dock many years ago as a young naval officer. I was told that the reason the hull looked so good was that the steel used in construction at that time had a very high nickle content.
Fabulous effort.
Looks great. Love that ship.
Thanks!
Absolutely fascinating, he presents so matter of factly
Awesome! Thanks for sharing…!
You are doing a fantastic job of explaining the dry dock procedure, it’s something I have always wondered about, looks like there is a proper competent crew ready to go to work on her, that’s awesome! I have always been fascinated by battleships, saw the Missouri in Vancouver harbor back in 1989 it was so impressive, we made sure we did the full tour once we got to Pearl Harbor in 2007. You are definitely the right guy to showcase the New Jersey, keep up the good work and thank you!👍
I appreciate your battleship.
Amazing! What a great information video! I never knew there was that much to drydocking a ship!!
The hull looks to be in great condition. I remember Texas, with water leaking out days after the drydock was drained. You guys should be so proud of her overall condition.
Very informative,thank you.
It looks from the stern photos like the rudders, keel and props have been in 2-3 feet of mud for some time. I know you cannot currently dredge at the museum and memorial site due to the fish hatch. And I imagine it would be prohibitively costly to move the ship, again, to bring in dredging equipment in the future. Since it is only 2-3 feet, is it possibly to dredge using pumps/suction to remove the mud while the ship is in its berth (and the fish hatch is over)? Also, is the idea of a coffer dam project you mentioned a previous video realistic potential solution on this waterway?
I LOVE this channel!!
I was stationed on the USS Texas CGN39 and when we went into dry dock, there was 100’s of fish trapped inside the dry dock. Lots of fun.