RARE Battleship Photos: New Jersey in Drydock 1987
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- In this episode we're looking at some rare photos of the ship in drydock in 1987.
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My dad was stationed in Long Beach in in 80s. Aboard Uss Prarie. He took me to see the New Jersey, im not sure of the date but I think it was 1990. The ship was parked next to the Missouri. They wouldn't let anyone on the Missouri at at he time, but got to walk aboard the New Jesey. I need to break out thosee pictures my dad took. Take care if my ship, it has a special place in my heart. I see the Iowa all the time from the Vincent Thomas bridge, but New Jersey is my ship, because i miss my dad.
This channel gives me confidence BB-62 USS NJ is in good hands. Despite most of the negative rep the state gets, there is lots of beauty beyond the highways. Come visit and pay a visit to the Big J.
i feel the same way about USS Massachusetts in Battleship Cove. my family went from michigan to main in 73 when i was 8 for a month long vacation. we went on Big Mamie and my dad showed me around (as best a Tin Can Sailor on a Battleship could) and i hope i NEVER forget that trip with him.
@truthsayers8725 I visited big Mamie a couple of years ago. Something about battleships I find fascinating. I've seen 4 with my won eyes and walked the decks of 2. Hoping to take my son for a tour of one of these grand ladies in the future.
Thanks, Curator Ryan. Here's a tenner for some welding rod. 😂 Thank you all for keeping USS New Jersey afloat. 😊
Wow! What a rare find and it’s perfect timing while you prepare for your dry docking.
One thing I have always been curious about drydocking large ships is how, once the ship is in the drydock, it is aligned with the blocks that will eventually support it when the water is pumped out. Thanks in advance and thanks to you and your team for all your hard work!
Casual Navigation did a really good video about this very topic.
m.ruclips.net/video/HPQFY2rActo/видео.html&pp=ygUORHJ5ZG9jayBibG9ja3M%3D
Divers go down to place the blocks based on a schematic made by the engineers. They hold the ship in place with cables and gradually lower the water level as the divers constantly check alignment.
The drydocking crew uses a surveyor's instrument, I believe called a Theodolite when they set up the keel blocks in the bottom of the drydock. Once the ship is in the drydock, caisson back in place, they'll set the theodolite back in place to assist lining up the ship while the water is being pumped out. Then you have the divers and hawsers as previously mentioned.
Great question, great answers. Thanks everyone!
Glad to hear that there are still unvisited compartments to stuff the curator into.
Hi Ryan.
Looking at the pictures it would appear that there was extensive pitting on pretty much all the bow area shell plating.
Dissimilar corrosion is, of course, a problem but the reason that steel corodes so badly (or should I say readily) is that any sheet has its own dissimilarities due to alloying, heat treatment and working (due to rolling) makes for different electro-potentials across the plate. It is electro-potentials with an electrolyte (eg sea water) which drives rusting. Steel plate has a futher suseptibility in that it is rolled plate and structurally it is in layers so that when a corosion pit forms the rust can (and does) run along inside the layers, which is why rust often comes off in chunks (the outer layer is no longer attached to the rest of the plate.
In your haloween moment, none or only small pits is the treat and the great chunks falling out from interlaminar corrosion is the trick.
Happy halloween.
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Just think of all the candid photos and videos from the 2024 drydock trip!
Most. Photographed. Battleship!
Thanks! I enjoy the channel immensely
The diagonal, parallel marks on the side of the blister/ turn of the bilge are from the anchor chain rubbing through the surface coatings when the ship was laying at anchor.
I showed up in 87,when she was in drydock,in long Beach ca. Stayed there on 62 Grey st. For 27 months..
Ryan, it would be very very very cool if those photos were scanned, and made available to fans of the ship...
You would have to pay an arm and a leg.
The dark spots look like Red Lead paint applied over the rust areas after some prep work. Red lead paint was used as much as Haze Gray in those times.
Great video
Hey ryan can u do a video on the jfk and keep us updated for the date she gets towed out if philly i want to see it get along with the new jersey to drydock
I would love to fly in from Germany and spend my holiday going through all the lockers and storage spaces cataloging every thing I can find for free.😊
Just to see that beautiful ship up close.
When that first photo popped up, my first thought was all the dark spots were primer painted around new fixes and welds. What tipped you off that those are not paint?
Edit: Ah, the next picture tips that off.
cool info.
This is so cool
Wow. The second picture ahows a lot of pitting even over the still water tight areas. I didn't know pitting that severe would be permissible on an active ship.
9:18 I don't know much, but to me it looks like propellors from other vessels bumped it. The lowest one that looks like tractor-tire-tread could be from a large heavy boat, and the small upper marks from smaller boats.
Waiting for New Jersey's hull to rise out of the water in drydock must feel like the days before an appointment with the dentist:
You know there will be damage, just not how much. And how painful and expensive the repairs will be.
A stapler, light tube and hole punch. A curators desk.
07:17 Would this be the kind of primer BB66 Kentucky's entire hull was painted with ?
That's a very light grey, almost white
Do the other museum ships have such bow issues, or is it unique to Iowas
Looks like the Museum were very lucky to find these , so was New Jersey to get that amount of work done so late in her Naval operational career . It should give a much better idea of what to expect .
Whats the status of the matched dollar fundraising?
I was pre-com on the last Tico cruiser USS PORT ROYAL (CG-73) that was decommissioned a year ago. Please bring back an Iowa or build a BBG like USS Kentucky, oh did I mention I’m from Kentucky 😅
This is fascinating to me. How does such strong, thick metal corrode like that? It looks like clay! It's amazing the destructive power of water and salt plus time.
Ryan: "other organisations that were trying to get the Battleship" That right there is some meta-history that is at risk of not being preserved.
What can you share about these other orgs? Do they still exist today ?
And what artifacts do they have?
“Looks loke the surface of the moon” - BB35 Texas, hold my beer.
Seen one you've seen em all. Coming from being a retired Marine Machinery Mechanic you kinda get numb to all of this stuff. You just do what you're tasked to do and dont bother to stop and "smell the roses". Ive removed props and shafts etc... no job to big or small. Wish i could've recorded some of the jobs ive done over the year's. Unfortunately, the Government prohibits the use of cellphones or cameras in that field. If you had a camera phone it was confiscated snd you'd lose your Secret security clearance.
no such thing as a cell phone when i was in. hard wired/mounted mobiles as they were called but definitely nothing in hand...
i agree with the loss of security clearance!
In the presumed worst case scenario where the New Jersey looks as bad below the waterline as she did in 1987, how much more money would you need? I imagine you’d have to look at the rest of the photos to answer that
Desperately looking for my Pre Viet Nam Dry Dock Photos. To donate 1967
You're looking to donate photos from 1967? Send an email to education@battleshipnewjersey.org
Is Ryan's office on the ship or on shore?
On the ship
I fished commercially on the northern west coast on pacific in cold water, electrolysis is way less destructive than warmer harbors. Golf coast is terrible and will eat up a metal vessel.
Curious, why would these pictures be black and white?
Cheaper & I think B&W lasts virtually forever since it uses silver.
What's the difference between zinc and aluminum anodes?
The different materials just react to the water type differently. Salt vs fresh water
Shouldn’t there be records of the dry dock?
Least billing records
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Water will dissolve more "stuff" than any other liquid on earth. Think about that.
It's crazy, isn't it?
It's one of the most powerful solvents we know and casually drink that stuff.
Aliens from outer space would never try to attack Earth if they do some recon and find out about us drinking water of all things :D
So grateful that our nation has WWII museum battleships, it’s stereotypically pretty damn American haha
What impresses me is that at one time the US Navy took very good care of their ships. I'd be surprised if that has carried over to today.
You guys put out so much great content I can't keep up. Could you be less good or something?
Terrifying
I'm sure the "blasts" from the guns had something to do with a lot of those stress cracks and missing zinc plates.
The recoil from the guns would only cause stress cracks if they were making the whole ship vibrate and rattle when they fire, like the guns on the Texas. But if you watch the earlier video about what the New Jersey’s guns sound like, the New Jersey veterans talk about how there is no vibration or rattling when the main guns fire. The ship seems to absorb the recoil very well.
14:20 😳... ABANDON SHIP... ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP!!!! 🤣 o c'mon, Ive always wanted to say that. Give me that MIC.
Too bad a ship of this vastness couldn't just be plucked out of the ocean an placed in an environment like Arizona somewhere. Most older cars from that area are literally rust free. Can you imagine that challenge? LOL I think it'd be impossible without some Alien spacecraft assistance. 👽 LOL
collection of tubes on your desk, buddy LED drop in replacements run cheaper, last longer, and only require minimal rewiring in the fixture (dont just do the starter replacement, rewire properly) will consume half the power again.
There is an episode on this channel detailing the rate to which they are changing over to LEDs and to what level your recommendation is valid and where it falls flat. You are not the first one
Times like this I really wish that I,could knock on your door and offer my services. This is meat and drink to me....
Dont need alot of comintary...want to see the dry dock photos
Okay this Halloween episode left quite a bit to be desired, frankly i am a bit disappointed
There's got be few ghost stories associated with this ship, (I would think). But, yeah, although Ryan's nightmares are important......
I listened about 15 min and got lost in what you were saying
7:44 Do you just make up stories when you don't know the facts? Those dark spots are not water leaking out of the ship. Those are areas that had corrosion and had "bodywork" done ... filler .. before the bottom paint was applied. Your ludicrous explanation would have over 30 feet of water inside the hull.
Why dontt hey just plastic wrap the hull
Plastic wrapping the hull - That’s potentially another way for a Battleship to "get the lead out".
Make a deal with the FlexSeal people....
34th, 1 November 2023
Shave your head Ryan......