The only big battleship guns we have left in the UK, are the two 15 inch ones outside the imperial war museum in London. Well done USA for preserving your heritage.
Those guns were manufactured by old school machinists at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington DC. At times, they worked with tolerances as small as 21/1,000,000 of an inch.
I only wish more things had been saved from scrap. So many old artifacts have been lost. Steam locomotives for one, many civil war battlefield sites also lost. It is history. We need a reminder of history, to avoid repeating things in the future. Great work you are doing. Thank you.
Had same thoughs, then i started to learn how much you can get from scraping ships, trains etc. It bothers me that we scrap so much, but in our current society where profit is the mesure of succes it ins't surprising.
@@acdii Cancel culture is removing very specific pieces of confederate history, mostly statues and the names of Army bases. That's not destroying history. There's plenty of other ways to learn about confederate generals, you shouldn't need to have one of them immortalized and staring down at you as you drive through town. I don't see anybody out there canceling things like these battleship barrels, or even things like entire civil war battlefields.
@@edwardsmith-rowland2852 The gunhouses are actually the front 2/3 of the turret. The back section houses the turret officer, rangefinder, a backup ballistic computer, the rammer mechanisms, etc. Do a search on "turret crawl"; most of the BB museums have video tours. Or better yet, there's an old Navy training film someone uploaded: ruclips.net/video/0OmOQs0ziSU/видео.html
@@mrz80 If you ever get the chance, we toured the USS SLATER in Albany NY last year,what an amazing history it has, if you can't tour it's worth a read.
That's the luxury of being the leading world superpower, hence why HMS Victory was saved but few others since. The Dreadnoughts would be nice to look at but when we still had them we had bigger problems than preservation of obsolete warships, sadly.
Great video ! My dad served aboard The U.S.S New Jersey from the time it was first launched until the end of WWII . Later when he would tell his stories for perspective he would say that every time they fired just 1 of those big guns it was like shooting a Volkswagen Beetle over the horizon . He said that because those 16 inch shells weighed over 1800 pounds which was more than what the "bug" weighed . He had some great stories about the history of that ship and its achievements during WWII . I wish he was still around to tell more .
I went aboard the jersey when i was a kid in mid '84 when she was anchord at manila bay. And i was one of the kids who recieve a scale model of her and its still with me.
Iowa and New Jersey have both occasionally fired a couple of 5" rounds for holidays and special events, but I don't think anyone's keen on paying the bills for replacing every plate glass window in a half mile radius of one of the Iowas if they WERE to lob a couple of 16" practice rounds out to sea. :D May ex-seadog father did tell me that while the 16" were LOUD, it was the much higher pitched *CRACK* of the 5"ers that really tore up sailors' hearing.
Geez, as a battleship fan for 54 years, I never knew they were so long. Imagine the power needed in the turret to raise those things, and three of them!
One of my best friends passed away 56 years old couple years ago he was stationed on the Iowa worked in turret 3, and he was on board when turret 2 exploded, he told me it was the worst thing he's ever experienced, RIP to those who perished that day.
@@skiterbite Be careful. The one thing that has always united us - is when someone picks a fight. Let's try to fix the current situation without that happening. I mean, it works - but it is expensive.
@@julieenslow59154/3/21 I understand your messaging Julie however our country is almost equally devided and the progressive left is pulling the powers handles wo impunity. So let's not be too naive in our virtues, false humility is ugly to me. Not an insinuating remark, just a simple observation. Peace.
@@skiterbite It is not naivety. It is hope. And yes, I know it is way out there on a very small upper branch, and may not be able to be supported. But hope has a way of doing things usually thought impossible.
Watched three barrels barged out of ammunition depot storage at Pearl Harbor for replacement on New Jersey in late ‘60’s as they were headed for Vietnamese Nam. The size was amazing.
There used to be one of these on display outside the Ordnance museum in Aberdeen, Maryland when I visited while attending Army BNCOC In 1990. It is a massive gun which one can only appreciate when seeing it in person.
I don't think ANYONE, outside the Navy, would even notice. They are just not that CALIBER of a person who would know. The barrels would have to "come out of their shells!" They should have put the move juxtaposed to the music of Pachebel's CANON in D!
There are so many awesome things in Camden! The New Jersey, the Aquarium and the Event Center. They're all in the same place. Too bad you have to drive through Camden to get there😥
Another one was saved from the scrap yard on the west coast. It was moved from the long term storage at Hawthorne NV to its current resting place behind Battery Townsley on Fort Cronkite in the Golden Gate National Recreational Area. They hope eventually mount it back into the battery, even though it is not the correct gun, but who really cares? The same moving company that originally installed the guns also brought this one back. Quite a bit more difficult than this task. ruclips.net/video/on9tuTWr6SM/видео.html
I’m ex- Vietnam Navy. When I was a kid the New Jersey was the first model ship that put together. She was a favorite of mine. Had a cousin I never knew on the Arizona.
They were moving stuff like this around over a hundred years ago! "Horsepower" meant something different back then. Thanks for the video and thanks for NOT having music!!
@@Letyourcolorsblendwithmine I had a fascinating discussion with one of the museum staff when I was up there a few years ago. They had built several small cofferdams that were form-fitted to different sections of the hull, so they could cut and patch some leaky spots. The museum fellow said their big problem isn't corrosion, because that far up the Delaware's freshwater. The problem is Erosion, from the fast moving river and sediment carried along in it. It's like sitting in a sandblaster 24/7. It's quite a chore keeping the river out of that century old hull.
At 5:00, you can see the Battleship New Jersey in the background with her full compliment of 16-inch guns. (Yes! it is still VERY impressive) Iowa class battleships had their big guns replaced. Some of the original guns were from previous decommissioned battleships and are now scattered around the country as monuments. Also to note... the big guns were mounted on a 3-gun turret, not a triple-gun turret. The difference?... Except for them all aiming in the same direction at one time, they were all independently operated and could be aimed and fired at different targets simultaneously.
At 3:50, the guns are being pulled in front of one of the ships I served on - USS Yorktown (CG-48). She was a wonderful ship to have served on. I don't care what anyone says, these guns are impressive as all H3LL. Thank You for posting this video ET1 (SW) / MTS (USN Ret)
I got a scrapper that comes around my 'hood on trash mornings, guarantee he'd get one of those up on the bed of his beat up multi colored 2001 Ford Ranger, squeezed between two dryers and 4 water heaters too.☺
Is it light green, deep green, blue and maroon? That's the same guy that hits my neighborhood. He takes it all back to his lair sometimes it goes to a flea market sometimes it goes to the scrap yard. In the end it all goes to crack
In 2002 I visited the Imperial War Museum in London. Outside the front door are two 15-inch gun barrels, weighing 105 tons each. These things in this video make them look like air rifles.
As of the early 80's, I knew that the tooling for producing these barrels was still in existence at the Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, NY, a suburb of Albany. It may still be there.
I grew up one town over in menands, ny. AFAIK everything in the Watervliet Arsenal is still intact. No other place in the country could build a gun this big. When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s the parking lot was full 24 hrs per day. Now it looks abandoned. I think they still make tubes for the 155 howitzer and perhaps the 120 mm tank gun.
The 16"/50 Mk7 used on the Iowas were all manufactured at the Naval Gun Factory at the Washington Navy Yard. Walterlivet did make some 16" guns that were used as coast artillery at the turn of the 20th Century.
The barbettes were some of the heaviest armored structures ever put to sea, ~17" thick. USS South Dakota took a 14" hit from IJN Kirishima on the barbette of her Turret 3 during the night action off Guadalcanal. The barbette armor was dented but not penetrated. I think South Dakota was the only US battleship ever to be struck by fire from an enemy battleship.
I read about this move. An ATF permit was required as the weapon moved through a school zone. Weapon and ammunition were kept seperate with all ammo stored in the trunk in a locked case. On the serious side, how was the balance point so quickly determined 3:30
Downtown Phoenix's Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza has a main barrel from the USS Arizona and another from the USS Missouri on display. It's a very nice display.
No one knows, IIRC, whether that 14" / 45 caliber gun was actually used aboard USS Arizona. A number of classes of US battleships used the gun and barrels were fitted to ship's turrets as needed. There were spare and relined barrels kept to replace those worn out from too many rounds. You can fire thousands and thousands of lead rounds from a handgun but the huge armor-piercing shells fired from these babies backed by corrosive powder charges wore out the bores. The heat of the propellent just burned metal off the rifling; it was worse where heat and pressure were highest near the breech.
Since the US only had about a dozen battleships with the 14" guns we're looking at maybe a total of 130 barrels being built. My understanding is that the research for this park was able to document their usage on these two ships.
@@russg1801 Most US heavy guns had chromium plated bores to reduce wear. That said, the life of a 16"/50 was about 350 rounds before they had to pull the gun and reline it. IIRC the 14"/45 with plated bore was good for about 400 before relining.
@@ItsEricAZ There were two major variants of the 14", a 14"/45cal, used on the New York, Nevada, and Pennsylvania classes, and the 14"/50cal, used on the New Mexico and Tennessee classes. Some extra 14"/45cal guns were used in coastal artillery batteries, and five 14"/50cal guns were deployed to France as railway guns in WW1. Contrary to most nations' railway guns, the US examples were enclosed, presumably because the Navy ratings manning them were used to being inside :D.
My father worked at NSWC Dahlgren and we'd always go for the open house where they'd fire the 16, 8, 5 & CIWS mounts. To a little kid, the report was devastating and thrilling at the same time and that was a single gun mounted in a test frame. I can remember stories of various 16 and 8 rounds going astray and luckily no one was ever hurt but a lady whose house backed-up to the Potomac found a rather large crater in her back yard. And that was an inert round. To me, the 16" naval gun exemplifies everything about US Navy skill and determination.
The Naval test range used to be way upstream at Indian Head, but when they were developing the 16" gun that eventually wound up on the Colorado class battleships, they found the range wholly inadequate. One test firing they accidentally demolished a farmer's front porch. That incident goaded the Navy to find a more workable site, and the test range was moved downriver to Dahlgren, where they have 25+ miles of open water. www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/Dahlgren_Centennial/Blog/20171113_ProblemsatIndianHead/
Incredible size when you see them off the ships like this... the size of the BB really doesnt give you an idea of just how enormous these guns are out in the open like this. crazy.. and the shells they used to lob..
I went on a Boy Scout encampment on the New Jersey in 2004 with my sons. It's very humbling to stand where Adm. Halsey did on his way to the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944. And it made me realize that these restored battleships are a rare and unchanged time capsule of history. I've been on four different classes of US aircraft carriers and nothing came anywhere close to impressing me like the New Jersey did. To think it was designed 80 years ago is stunning.
Always heard the difference between "Gun" and "Rifle" was that a gun was a crew served weapon and rifle was for an individual. But have also heard them referred to as rifles and they certainly were a crew served weapon!!
We respect Ukrainians and what you have had to tolerate from your cousin, Russia. At least Stalin himself is burning in hell for the damage he did too Ukraine. Bastards!
I see the guns on display with the barrel open to the weather; there should be a 'tampon" or as the Brit's called 'em, tampion, on it. Yeah, that's what the plugs used to protect a gun barrel are actually called and the word acquired quite another connotation. Naval ships had two types, an ordinary, functional one and a decorative one that usually had a symbol of the ship on it. At least they did for modern battleships with a small number of main guns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampion
@@edwardsmith-rowland2852 That used to be a regular job for the skinniest guys in the gun crews - crawling the bores to check for problems with the rifling, etc. :D Claustrophobic types are probably better off in the deck department :D
When my ship’s home port was Long Beach, CA there was one of these barrels sitting in the Supply Center yard right adjacent to the Naval Station gate right on the Terminal Island highway (one direction went across the Vincent Thomas bridge and the other direction went to San Pedro). The USS New Jersey was decommissioned at Long Beach Naval Station while my ship was home ported there. It was a great honor to see such a historic and majestic ship being properly retired.
@@manabouttongue Yeah, and thank God some guy thought to store them in a corner of the basement, just in case they were needed again, and DIDN'T give into his wife's bickering about how "they are useless, and they take up room which could be better used to store all my extra clothes and shoes"! Lol
One of the original horses for hauling the 16" guns, is on display at the Haul of Fame Museum in Connecticut. A Korean War Marine that I knew years ago, had been able to call in naval gun fire on a chinese battalion in a valley. Next thing, was the valley erupting from 16" shells. He figured that all of the bad guys were dead.
I've seen several sources that indicated the one of the things that motivated the NV to return to the Paris peace talks was New Jersey sitting offshore dropping salvos here there and everywhere from beyond their ability to retaliate.
I was there when they brought in and installed two 16" guns in Phoenix for the USS Arizona mrmorial. Quite the display. Huge chunks of iron. One from the Missouri the other from the Arizona. Symbolic to the core.
now that's definitely not your grandfather's .45 is it? the thickness of the barrel at the breech end looks well over a foot thick easily! must've been fun casting that behemoth. ☆☆☆
I drive past Watervliet Arsenal on my way to work. They have several barrels, including 16", plus two spare barrels from Atomic Annie. I wonder if that is where New Jersey's gun barrels were made.
the 16"/50cal used on the Iowas were all manufactured at the Naval Gun Factory at the Washington Navy Yard. The Waltervliet Arsenal built several 16" that were used for coast artillery at the turn of the 20th Century.
I saw a stack of these one day, on the north side of Subic Bay Navy Base, July 1972. I remember thinking, what kind of stories they had to tell, if they could. They where laying right on the ground. You could see the rifling as the barrels where open. Seemed so sad.
The Navy had a bunch of extra barrels, much like the British did with the 15" BL1. That let them have a ready supply of relined, refurbished barrels handy for quick (well, relatively) swaps when ships came in with worn out guns. Swap in the ready units and get the ship back out to sea, then refurbish the old units and put them in a warehouse for next time.
When I was a kid the Battleship Missouri was a museum at the Bremerton naval shipyard in the state of Washington. There was and still is a munitions annex at the mouth of the puget sound I seen pictures of stored 16” gun shells in reserve in case any were needed I remember when the mighty mo was taken under tugboat out to be refitted what a sight.
If you put a pistol grip and a flash suppressor on it, would it be an assault rifle? Great video. Thank you very much to all of them for that hard work. Never forget. I found myself in the middle of Desert Shield/Desert Storm on the Saratoga. When we finally went home the Wisconsin rode along with us. If you knew how much I've been into Navy history, especially the Pacific War, for 40 years you'd understand how I honored I felt to be able see a battleship on the high seas for one of the last times under her own power. I probably teared up a couple of times at sunset. She rode stately and sedately when the frigates were doing a lil tossing. ;) Thanks again.
It is hard to believe! You can see hundreds more videos about the Battleship on our RUclips channel. There is even a video of someone climbing through one of these barrels! ruclips.net/user/battleshipnewjersey
I worked on several research projects with MRAP and other vehicles at Dahlgren VA at the Naval surface warfare research center about 10 years ago when I worked at a major university... We saw lots of different big gun barrels on blocks around the facility. Some of the research includes making projectiles with measurement devices INSIDE the projectiles to record impact performance... Cool stuff!
Yes, the High Altitude Research Project (HARP) gun in Yuma, Arizona uses one of the barrels removed from USS New Jersey in 1954. That gun holds the record for the highest a projectile has been fired into space from a gun - 111 miles. There is more info about that gun here - www.army.mil/article/173784/monster_cannon_celebrates_50th_anniversary_of_world_record_setting_shot
@@ClarkPerks Thanks for the info. I am not familiar with the Yuma aspect. I remember reading about Bull in the newspaper in the late '60s or early '70s mentioning that the breach was cut off and the barrel welded onto the end of another for a total of 120' (?). As a little kid I saw the Missouri in Bremerton and was not that impressed, but in retrospect, I should have. I would be curious to know whether one of these guns could successfully orbit the minisatellites.
Those were at St. Julien's. I did my apprenticeship down the street at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. I always loved going over there and seeing them just sitting there like nobody cared. St. J's made artillery shells during ww2. The Iowa was in the yard when I started there. BRAC ended my career there after they spent a ton of money training us. Left a sh*ty taste in my mouth and swore I would never go back there to work. Ended up a blessing because I make a lot more money but was a very interesting place to work. A lot of military history in Portsmouth va.
Cute pocket derringer............. wow. - USS New Jersey (BB-62) had nine of those babies and still floated on the duck pond + 20 × 5” & 80 x 40mm 49 x 20mm guns back in 1943 that is some fire power, with just under 2,000 crew a mean feat for the chef to feed.
I remember in 1981 a train had a bunch of railcars derail on a curve behind the building I worked at and upon inspection after during clean up I discovered that the open railcars had been loaded with cut up sections of a sixteen inch naval gun and because the sections were not tied down they shifted to one side of the cars and caused the derailment of the cars carrying the cut sections which were about five feet long. Even though I would have liked a section as my father served in the Navy on a heavy cruiser but there was no way other than heavy equipment to move even a section of barrel let alone transport in the back of my pickup.
I saw a set of barrels in a field in Subic Bay in 1977-1978. I was told they were spare barrels for the New Jersey. They looked like these. They may still be there, for all I know. Anyone know anything about them?
I saw them at the main supply depot at Subic Bay in 1972 while stationed at the receiver site at Cubi Point. They were still there in 1978 during a inport visit by USS Shasta. The Philippine Navy owns the base now; I'll bet the barrels are still there. (Take a look on Google Earth!)
those are insane.. sometime we take for granted and don't actually realise what those guns were. I mean... each of them weighs as much as a locomotive and they were nine of them moving around and firing shells that weigh as much as a family car.. I'd like to see a target practice of those ...
A number of years ago one of these barrels was shipped to Sioux Falls South Dakota via special DOT railcar, for display at the Battleship South Dakota Memorial. So this is not the first time one of these has been moved somewhere for use as a museum piece.
I was dropping some mail off at the post office and saw one across the road. We have it in a park here now delawaremuseum.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ftmiles1.jpg
I am not 100% sure, but I believe you heat the barrel up, pull out the old liner, and put in a new one. These are called "built up guns" so they are basically multiple metal tubes one inside the other. If you check out this link, there is a cross section near the bottom of the article - eugeneleeslover.com/USNAVY/GUN-BARL-CONSTRUCTION-1.html
My father was one of the people to bore out those guns at Bethlehem Steel during the war. I asked why did they have to make so many, there were only so many battleships. He said that after so many rounds, the rifling would wear out and the barrels would have to be replaced. I suspect these barrels have been "shot out" I still have his tool chest with many of his tools he used. That's why I checked this vid out, hoping to see some WWII film at BS and maybe see a glimpse my Dad. But no luck.
What are those rods running between each of the saddles and out to the ends of the barrel? They look like they are designed to keep the barrel under a constant state of compression. But why?
Neither does it have a 20 round detachable box magazine nor a select fire switch to enable it to go fully automatic. Which would be interesting engineering feats in and of themselves. :-)
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Actually, I'm an old fashioned curmudgeon. If it's not chambered in 7.62x51 mm NATO I'm not interested. But to each their own. There are entire graveyards filled with people who have been sent to their reward by AR-15/M-16s and their assorted clones. I just prefer the heavier round. Especially given that I have no radio and as a result no air strikes, heavy artillery, tanks, helicopter resupply or other such assorted goodness to fall back on.
Yes, I was fortunate enough to see the USS Missouri when it came to Fremantle, Western Australia it tied up at the Passenger Terminal, about 100 mts from my home. it was a truly awe inspiring sight from my balcony. Its an even shorter distance to where the US submarines used to tie up during WW2, the harbour tugs use that berth nowadays.
The only big battleship guns we have left in the UK, are the two 15 inch ones outside the imperial war museum in London. Well done USA for preserving your heritage.
Praetorian it wasn’t the Rodney class, HMS Nelson was the first ship of the class.
another one at Fort Nelson
@Praetorian If nothing else, a Monitor as used in the invasion of Sicily...
It's a crime your govt didn't preserve HMS Warspite
@@stevebengel1346 Yeah I know. I have visited HMS Belfast in London. While impressive enough, it still isn't a battleship.
What amazes me is to imagine the size of the tools needed to make these monsters!
Those guns were manufactured by old school machinists at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington DC. At times, they worked with tolerances as small as 21/1,000,000 of an inch.
I only wish more things had been saved from scrap. So many old artifacts have been lost. Steam locomotives for one, many civil war battlefield sites also lost. It is history. We need a reminder of history, to avoid repeating things in the future. Great work you are doing. Thank you.
Plenty of battlefields still around plus a few trains.
Keep back 31 miles ?
And yet Cancel culture is destroying so many we do have now. Sad state we are in.
Had same thoughs, then i started to learn how much you can get from scraping ships, trains etc. It bothers me that we scrap so much, but in our current society where profit is the mesure of succes it ins't surprising.
@@acdii Cancel culture is removing very specific pieces of confederate history, mostly statues and the names of Army bases. That's not destroying history. There's plenty of other ways to learn about confederate generals, you shouldn't need to have one of them immortalized and staring down at you as you drive through town.
I don't see anybody out there canceling things like these battleship barrels, or even things like entire civil war battlefields.
Seeing just the forward amount of the barrel sticking out of the turret is impressive but seeing the entire length is astounding!
The guy who load must be at the very back of those turrets.
@@edwardsmith-rowland2852 The gunhouses are actually the front 2/3 of the turret. The back section houses the turret officer, rangefinder, a backup ballistic computer, the rammer mechanisms, etc. Do a search on "turret crawl"; most of the BB museums have video tours. Or better yet, there's an old Navy training film someone uploaded: ruclips.net/video/0OmOQs0ziSU/видео.html
If you ever get the chance, don't pass up a tour of the New Jersey and actually go inside the turrent
@@thomasburkett6417 I've toured Alabama, North Carolina, and New Jersey. Three down, five to go. Collect the whole set! :D
@@mrz80 If you ever get the chance, we toured the USS SLATER in Albany NY last year,what an amazing history it has, if you can't tour it's worth a read.
I LOVE how American cherish their military history. Well done lads. Gday from Australia
Thanks to Aussies the world is a bit safer, now more than ever with China and the CPC out of sorts.
It's a big ass gun! What is more American than this?
SOME of us do. Others want to eliminate democracy, the military, all police, and turn our country into a communist craphole. They're called democrats.
@@jkutyna Well said mate
That's the luxury of being the leading world superpower, hence why HMS Victory was saved but few others since. The Dreadnoughts would be nice to look at but when we still had them we had bigger problems than preservation of obsolete warships, sadly.
I sailed on the Big J from 87 to decom, what a marvel in engineering. She is the finest ship I ever went to sea on. The Mighty Mo was a close second.
Drive down road with a sign on them "don't tailgate, I've got you in range"
Hehe.
"If you can see the rifling, you're too close!"
"Incoming fire has right of way."
16" 50s thats a good 25miles to stay behind then. :P
“Not responsible for 16” shells bouncing from roadway” Hehehe😂
Great video ! My dad served aboard The U.S.S New Jersey from the time it was first launched until the end of WWII . Later when he would tell his stories for perspective he would say that every time they fired just 1 of those big guns it was like shooting a Volkswagen Beetle over the horizon . He said that because those 16 inch shells weighed over 1800 pounds which was more than what the "bug" weighed . He had some great stories about the history of that ship and its achievements during WWII . I wish he was still around to tell more .
The Mk 8 rounds were 2700 lbs.
I went aboard the jersey when i was a kid in mid '84 when she was anchord at manila bay. And i was one of the kids who recieve a scale model of her and its still with me.
Magnificent weapons. To hear them speak would be truly awesome.
Iowa and New Jersey have both occasionally fired a couple of 5" rounds for holidays and special events, but I don't think anyone's keen on paying the bills for replacing every plate glass window in a half mile radius of one of the Iowas if they WERE to lob a couple of 16" practice rounds out to sea. :D
May ex-seadog father did tell me that while the 16" were LOUD, it was the much higher pitched *CRACK* of the 5"ers that really tore up sailors' hearing.
Geez, as a battleship fan for 54 years, I never knew they were so long.
Imagine the power needed in the turret to raise those things, and three of them!
One of my best friends passed away 56 years old couple years ago he was stationed on the Iowa worked in turret 3, and he was on board when turret 2 exploded, he told me it was the worst thing he's ever experienced, RIP to those who perished that day.
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I do remember when that Iowa incident happened and it took a great deal of time and resources. When America was more united.
@@skiterbite
Be careful. The one thing that has always united us - is when someone picks a fight. Let's try to fix the current situation without that happening. I mean, it works - but it is expensive.
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I understand your messaging Julie however our country is almost equally devided and the progressive left is pulling the powers handles wo impunity. So let's not be too naive in our virtues, false humility is ugly to me. Not an insinuating remark, just a simple observation. Peace.
@@skiterbite
It is not naivety. It is hope. And yes, I know it is way out there on a very small upper branch, and may not be able to be supported. But hope has a way of doing things usually thought impossible.
Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in this restoration project. Great job!
Holy cow! I knew they were big guns but I had no idea they were that big!!!
This is a great thing you are doing as it also preserves memorys of lives paid for my freedom. Ty
Watched three barrels barged out of ammunition depot storage at Pearl Harbor for replacement on New Jersey in late ‘60’s as they were headed for Vietnamese Nam. The size was amazing.
I met a 95 year old Vet who served on the Iowa last week
There used to be one of these on display outside the Ordnance museum in Aberdeen, Maryland when I visited while attending Army BNCOC In 1990. It is a massive gun which one can only appreciate when seeing it in person.
Do I need an open carry permit ?.
I think it depends... Maybe yes? Because, come on! It's America baby. 'MURICA!
If you can carry one of these, I doubt anyone would mess with you anyway.
I don't think ANYONE, outside the Navy, would even notice. They are just not that CALIBER of a person who would know. The barrels would have to "come out of their shells!" They should have put the move juxtaposed to the music of Pachebel's CANON in D!
Not if you live in a gold star state !
If you can carry the bullet....
Its a derringer though.
That's so awesome! Its hard to even imagine something being fired from that, the enormous size is incredible! Awesome video!
Lots of history in those guns and pride ....Love Canada
Love Canada? They were made in NY State.
Robert Thomas he is saying love from Canada,
There are so many awesome things in Camden! The New Jersey, the Aquarium and the Event Center. They're all in the same place. Too bad you have to drive through Camden to get there😥
Those are some beautiful old heavy haul trucks.
Another one was saved from the scrap yard on the west coast. It was moved from the long term storage at Hawthorne NV to its current resting place behind Battery Townsley on Fort Cronkite in the Golden Gate National Recreational Area. They hope eventually mount it back into the battery, even though it is not the correct gun, but who really cares? The same moving company that originally installed the guns also brought this one back. Quite a bit more difficult than this task. ruclips.net/video/on9tuTWr6SM/видео.html
Indeed, they are!
God Bless the New Jersey and all that sailed with her.
Thank you. And God bless you as well. - Gun Boss, BB-62 (1984-86)
I’m ex- Vietnam Navy. When I was a kid the New Jersey was the first model ship that put together.
She was a favorite of mine.
Had a cousin I never knew on the Arizona.
funny that, i said that about my mates new girlfriend
@@enochpowel4580
You are a year older now. Have you outgrown this comment yet?
Just imagine the massive firepower of a broadside of all the main turrets!
earplugs,anyone!!!
Keen R no, it’s just the gun recoil. The ship doesn’t move.
@Keen R it's a myth, the ship is too big and too heavy for the recoil to move it to the side
You are right, CFeng Plays and Second Layer. It is explained on the Battleship New Jersey channel. I too got fooled by that myth.
I was one of the fortunate few who didn’t have to imagine it. I served on the New Jersey BB-62 back in the eighties.
They were moving stuff like this around over a hundred years ago! "Horsepower" meant something different back then. Thanks for the video and thanks for NOT having music!!
Glad you noticed the lack of music! I thought the random sounds from this project were interesting.
History, whether good or bad in your eyes, still needs preserved.
My father served on the new jersey in 55, 56, 57. I was born in 58 ! I've heard his stories but never set foot on it myself !
The New Jersey is available for tours in Camden, NJ, right across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. I've been aboard twice, quite impressive.
pdef1949 The state that feels it's residents do not deserve their second amendment rights, IRONIC..........
I liked the Olympia across the river better.
@@Letyourcolorsblendwithmine I had a fascinating discussion with one of the museum staff when I was up there a few years ago. They had built several small cofferdams that were form-fitted to different sections of the hull, so they could cut and patch some leaky spots. The museum fellow said their big problem isn't corrosion, because that far up the Delaware's freshwater. The problem is Erosion, from the fast moving river and sediment carried along in it. It's like sitting in a sandblaster 24/7. It's quite a chore keeping the river out of that century old hull.
I am an Army veteran's son. I am a trucker's son!
So how fitting that I am reco this vid with a big, old cool truck and a massive old gun!
At 5:00, you can see the Battleship New Jersey in the background with her full compliment of 16-inch guns. (Yes! it is still VERY impressive) Iowa class battleships had their big guns replaced. Some of the original guns were from previous decommissioned battleships and are now scattered around the country as monuments. Also to note... the big guns were mounted on a 3-gun turret, not a triple-gun turret. The difference?... Except for them all aiming in the same direction at one time, they were all independently operated and could be aimed and fired at different targets simultaneously.
At 3:50, the guns are being pulled in front of one of the ships I served on - USS Yorktown (CG-48). She was a wonderful ship to have served on.
I don't care what anyone says, these guns are impressive as all H3LL. Thank You for posting this video
ET1 (SW) / MTS (USN Ret)
John Foster III - Good eye to spot your ship as the barrel goes by! So glad I included that shot.
I got a scrapper that comes around my 'hood on trash mornings, guarantee he'd get one of those up on the bed of his beat up multi colored 2001 Ford Ranger, squeezed between two dryers and 4 water heaters too.☺
he would use his sawzall to slice it up
Where there's a will there's a way. Guarantee he'd try to take it on the highway too.
Is the only english you ever heard him say "thats what they says" or "it's OK,?" but like a question?
Is it light green, deep green, blue and maroon? That's the same guy that hits my neighborhood. He takes it all back to his lair sometimes it goes to a flea market sometimes it goes to the scrap yard. In the end it all goes to crack
That was the comment of the day!!
Welding the carrying brackets down to the flatcars so they don't shift during transit was a nice touch.
Good friend served on the New Jersey during the Korean War. Always proud of it!! Talked of the "plank owners" still on board.
These workers are freaking geniuses in the way they solve problems with each haul.
In 2002 I visited the Imperial War Museum in London. Outside the front door are two 15-inch gun barrels, weighing 105 tons each. These things in this video make them look like air rifles.
Yeah, they're like toothpicks. Amazing what a difference one whole inch makes.....
@@vanman6368 Yamato's 18" guns would be like the Washington Monument then.
No kidding. )
As of the early 80's, I knew that the tooling for producing these barrels was still in existence at the Watervliet Arsenal in Watervliet, NY, a suburb of Albany. It may still be there.
Wow it showed breech of gun and you could see the rifling in it-and those guns were designed for accuracy with old-school fire control computers!
I grew up one town over in menands, ny. AFAIK everything in the Watervliet Arsenal is still intact. No other place in the country could build a gun this big. When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s the parking lot was full 24 hrs per day. Now it looks abandoned. I think they still make tubes for the 155 howitzer and perhaps the 120 mm tank gun.
The last I knew there was a "Naval Rifle Barrel" sitting where you could see it at the Watervliet arsenal.
The 16"/50 Mk7 used on the Iowas were all manufactured at the Naval Gun Factory at the Washington Navy Yard. Walterlivet did make some 16" guns that were used as coast artillery at the turn of the 20th Century.
not only the size of them
but the superstructure around them originally. like the turret the base the housing in the ship .incredible
The barbettes were some of the heaviest armored structures ever put to sea, ~17" thick. USS South Dakota took a 14" hit from IJN Kirishima on the barbette of her Turret 3 during the night action off Guadalcanal. The barbette armor was dented but not penetrated. I think South Dakota was the only US battleship ever to be struck by fire from an enemy battleship.
I read about this move. An ATF permit was required as the weapon moved through a school zone. Weapon and ammunition were kept seperate with all ammo stored in the trunk in a locked case. On the serious side, how was the balance point so quickly determined 3:30
Downtown Phoenix's Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza has a main barrel from the USS Arizona and another from the USS Missouri on display. It's a very nice display.
No one knows, IIRC, whether that 14" / 45 caliber gun was actually used aboard USS Arizona. A number of classes of US battleships used the gun and barrels were fitted to ship's turrets as needed. There were spare and relined barrels kept to replace those worn out from too many rounds. You can fire thousands and thousands of lead rounds from a handgun but the huge armor-piercing shells fired from these babies backed by corrosive powder charges wore out the bores. The heat of the propellent just burned metal off the rifling; it was worse where heat and pressure were highest near the breech.
Since the US only had about a dozen battleships with the 14" guns we're looking at maybe a total of 130 barrels being built. My understanding is that the research for this park was able to document their usage on these two ships.
@@russg1801 Most US heavy guns had chromium plated bores to reduce wear. That said, the life of a 16"/50 was about 350 rounds before they had to pull the gun and reline it. IIRC the 14"/45 with plated bore was good for about 400 before relining.
@@ItsEricAZ There were two major variants of the 14", a 14"/45cal, used on the New York, Nevada, and Pennsylvania classes, and the 14"/50cal, used on the New Mexico and Tennessee classes. Some extra 14"/45cal guns were used in coastal artillery batteries, and five 14"/50cal guns were deployed to France as railway guns in WW1. Contrary to most nations' railway guns, the US examples were enclosed, presumably because the Navy ratings manning them were used to being inside :D.
That gun barrel size was seriously impressive! Looking at it, and one thought screams "Wow!"
My father worked at NSWC Dahlgren and we'd always go for the open house where they'd fire the 16, 8, 5 & CIWS mounts. To a little kid, the report was devastating and thrilling at the same time and that was a single gun mounted in a test frame. I can remember stories of various 16 and 8 rounds going astray and luckily no one was ever hurt but a lady whose house backed-up to the Potomac found a rather large crater in her back yard. And that was an inert round. To me, the 16" naval gun exemplifies everything about US Navy skill and determination.
The Naval test range used to be way upstream at Indian Head, but when they were developing the 16" gun that eventually wound up on the Colorado class battleships, they found the range wholly inadequate. One test firing they accidentally demolished a farmer's front porch. That incident goaded the Navy to find a more workable site, and the test range was moved downriver to Dahlgren, where they have 25+ miles of open water.
www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Dahlgren/Dahlgren_Centennial/Blog/20171113_ProblemsatIndianHead/
Big suckers! My ship, Leonard F. Mason DD-852, operated with the New Jersey in '68 or '69?
Incredible size when you see them off the ships like this... the size of the BB really doesnt give you an idea of just how enormous these guns are out in the open like this. crazy.. and the shells they used to lob..
Nine exploding Volkswagens downrange every 30 seconds until the target's destroyed or the ship's shot herself dry. :D
I went on a Boy Scout encampment on the New Jersey in 2004 with my sons. It's very humbling to stand where Adm. Halsey did on his way to the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944. And it made me realize that these restored battleships are a rare and unchanged time capsule of history. I've been on four different classes of US aircraft carriers and nothing came anywhere close to impressing me like the New Jersey did. To think it was designed 80 years ago is stunning.
To anyone who volunteered to maintain and to be a tour guide on the Missouri at Pearl Harbor they would call the guns rifles.
well... they *are* rifled...
Because they are...
(But technically all rifles are guns, just not all guns are rifles)
Always heard the difference between "Gun" and "Rifle" was that a gun was a crew served weapon and rifle was for an individual. But have also heard them referred to as rifles and they certainly were a crew served weapon!!
@@danatcanyonlake583 all rifles are guns, not all guns are rifles ;)
The battleship's main armament were called "guns", "rifles", "artillery", and "cannons". And all are techinically correct terms.
An old Mack hauling slightly older naval guns in 2018! That was awesome.
USA is doing well. Respect from Ukraine.
We respect Ukrainians and what you have had to tolerate from your cousin, Russia. At least Stalin himself is burning in hell for the damage he did too Ukraine. Bastards!
Daddy Russia says hello.
Incredible to think that some of our battleships had nine of them wow
I see the guns on display with the barrel open to the weather; there should be a 'tampon" or as the Brit's called 'em, tampion, on it. Yeah, that's what the plugs used to protect a gun barrel are actually called and the word acquired quite another connotation. Naval ships had two types, an ordinary, functional one and a decorative one that usually had a symbol of the ship on it. At least they did for modern battleships with a small number of main guns. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampion
I could imagine some kid craving in there and needing to be fished out. :-(
@@edwardsmith-rowland2852 That used to be a regular job for the skinniest guys in the gun crews - crawling the bores to check for problems with the rifling, etc. :D Claustrophobic types are probably better off in the deck department :D
When my ship’s home port was Long Beach, CA there was one of these barrels sitting in the Supply Center yard right adjacent to the Naval Station gate right on the Terminal Island highway (one direction went across the Vincent Thomas bridge and the other direction went to San Pedro).
The USS New Jersey was decommissioned at Long Beach Naval Station while my ship was home ported there. It was a great honor to see such a historic and majestic ship being properly retired.
Well, now you check out the Iowa there! Just don't go during Fleet Week!
I'd bet those special braces that it's sitting in were built at about the same time as the guns themselves.
They look like the original braces used to move the barrels when they were being fitted in the factory or the ship yard.
@@manabouttongue Yeah, and thank God some guy thought to store them in a corner of the basement, just in case they were needed again, and DIDN'T give into his wife's bickering about how "they are useless, and they take up room which could be better used to store all my extra clothes and shoes"! Lol
Awesome video, and excellent job with the editing! It’s nice to see somebody who knows how to keep attention span. Thank you for this awesome video! 👍
One of the original horses for hauling the 16" guns, is on display at the Haul of Fame Museum in Connecticut. A Korean War Marine that I knew years ago, had been able to call in naval gun fire on a chinese battalion in a valley. Next thing, was the valley erupting from 16" shells. He figured that all of the bad guys were dead.
There's scene in aThe BIG RED ONE with Lee Marvin where a tank battalion was wiped out by Naval gunfire.
I've seen several sources that indicated the one of the things that motivated the NV to return to the Paris peace talks was New Jersey sitting offshore dropping salvos here there and everywhere from beyond their ability to retaliate.
I was there when they brought in and installed two 16" guns in Phoenix for the USS Arizona mrmorial. Quite the display. Huge chunks of iron. One from the Missouri the other from the Arizona. Symbolic to the core.
The gun from the Arizona was a 14"
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Other World Explorers WD 40 is not recommended for thundersticks as it contains a small portion of water
@@revolverocelot3697 thats what brushes are for
now that's definitely not your grandfather's .45 is it? the thickness of the barrel at the breech end looks well over a foot thick easily! must've been fun casting that behemoth. ☆☆☆
I drive past Watervliet Arsenal on my way to work. They have several barrels, including 16", plus two spare barrels from Atomic Annie. I wonder if that is where New Jersey's gun barrels were made.
That's a great tour. The skill of the machinists is astounding.
the 16"/50cal used on the Iowas were all manufactured at the Naval Gun Factory at the Washington Navy Yard. The Waltervliet Arsenal built several 16" that were used for coast artillery at the turn of the 20th Century.
I love how we take little things and great big huge things with them. Fantastic work.
I saw a stack of these one day, on the north side of Subic Bay Navy Base, July 1972. I remember thinking, what kind of stories they had to tell, if they could. They where laying right on the ground. You could see the rifling as the barrels where open. Seemed so sad.
The Navy had a bunch of extra barrels, much like the British did with the 15" BL1. That let them have a ready supply of relined, refurbished barrels handy for quick (well, relatively) swaps when ships came in with worn out guns. Swap in the ready units and get the ship back out to sea, then refurbish the old units and put them in a warehouse for next time.
When I was a kid the Battleship Missouri was a museum at the Bremerton naval shipyard in the state of Washington. There was and still is a munitions annex at the mouth of the puget sound I seen pictures of stored 16” gun shells in reserve in case any were needed I remember when the mighty mo was taken under tugboat out to be refitted what a sight.
So glad this wasn’t in a “Bad Day at Work” category.
Phil from Australia. Well done America, looking after your history.
If you put a pistol grip and a flash suppressor on it, would it be an assault rifle?
Great video. Thank you very much to all of them for that hard work. Never forget.
I found myself in the middle of Desert Shield/Desert Storm on the Saratoga. When we finally went home the Wisconsin rode along with us. If you knew how much I've been into Navy history, especially the Pacific War, for 40 years you'd understand how I honored I felt to be able see a battleship on the high seas for one of the last times under her own power. I probably teared up a couple of times at sunset. She rode stately and sedately when the frigates were doing a lil tossing. ;)
Thanks again.
The hard part would be finding a shoulder thing that goes up.
It's liking watching something from Star Wars. Its hard to believe a gun/cannon barrel can be That Big.
It is hard to believe! You can see hundreds more videos about the Battleship on our RUclips channel. There is even a video of someone climbing through one of these barrels! ruclips.net/user/battleshipnewjersey
*IS THAT A 16" GUN BARREL IN YOUR POCKET OR ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?*
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I worked on several research projects with MRAP and other vehicles at Dahlgren VA at the Naval surface warfare research center about 10 years ago when I worked at a major university... We saw lots of different big gun barrels on blocks around the facility. Some of the research includes making projectiles with measurement devices INSIDE the projectiles to record impact performance... Cool stuff!
Those gun barrels are approx. 66 feet long. Awesome video!
thats a replica of my manhood when i was 19
DREAM ON....
Did Gerald Bull's project at Aberdeen use the barrels removed from the New Jersey in 1954?
Yes, the High Altitude Research Project (HARP) gun in Yuma, Arizona uses one of the barrels removed from USS New Jersey in 1954. That gun holds the record for the highest a projectile has been fired into space from a gun - 111 miles. There is more info about that gun here - www.army.mil/article/173784/monster_cannon_celebrates_50th_anniversary_of_world_record_setting_shot
@@ClarkPerks Thanks for the info. I am not familiar with the Yuma aspect. I remember reading about Bull in the newspaper in the late '60s or early '70s mentioning that the breach was cut off and the barrel welded onto the end of another for a total of 120' (?). As a little kid I saw the Missouri in Bremerton and was not that impressed, but in retrospect, I should have.
I would be curious to know whether one of these guns could successfully orbit the minisatellites.
soma day - Yes, not Aberdeen, Yuma. There is another HARP gun in Bermuda.
120 tons? That is pretty darn close to the weight of my mother-in-law!
HustleMuscleGhias my mother-in-law is called Bertha, how do you think I feel? Too many Big Bertha jokes!
Hahahahahhahahhahahaaa!!
I laughed so hard I forgot to breath!
Huoo Look mother like daughter down the road !
Ya my mother inlaws lips
This amount of work was done by noon by a crew of 18 year olds back in WW2,
The leg work done during war time was amazing to say the lease.
There were 9 of those at the Ship Repair Facility supply yard in Subic Bay. No idea what happened when it closed. Probably got scrapped there.
Damn messed up place for them to be!
Those were probably the barrel liners that were in stock for the USS New Jersey in case the installed ones wore out.
2:30 the photographer we all wish we could be.
Wonder how much Hoppe's to clean?
ALL of it!!
USS Iowa, 84-86. Thanks for the video
Thank you for your service!
The field where these 3 barrels were stored - there is still 1 barrel still there from the USS Iowa.
GOOD TO SEE THOSES OLDER HANDS OUT THERE . . .
Those were at St. Julien's. I did my apprenticeship down the street at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. I always loved going over there and seeing them just sitting there like nobody cared. St. J's made artillery shells during ww2. The Iowa was in the yard when I started there. BRAC ended my career there after they spent a ton of money training us. Left a sh*ty taste in my mouth and swore I would never go back there to work. Ended up a blessing because I make a lot more money but was a very interesting place to work. A lot of military history in Portsmouth va.
Cute pocket derringer............. wow. - USS New Jersey (BB-62) had nine of those babies and still floated on the duck pond + 20 × 5” & 80 x 40mm 49 x 20mm guns back in 1943 that is some fire power, with just under 2,000 crew a mean feat for the chef to feed.
Mike Smith
WW2's most unsung heroes: Chefs.
To this day, the men and women who feed the fleet, past and present, are unsung heroes.
My family and friends boarded USS New Jersey a couple of years ago for a visit. My first time aboard a BB. Wow, history. Honor.
I remember in 1981 a train had a bunch of railcars derail on a curve behind the building I worked at and upon inspection after during clean up I discovered that the open railcars had been loaded with cut up sections of a sixteen inch naval gun and because the sections were not tied down they shifted to one side of the cars and caused the derailment of the cars carrying the cut sections which were about five feet long. Even though I would have liked a section as my father served in the Navy on a heavy cruiser but there was no way other than heavy equipment to move even a section of barrel let alone transport in the back of my pickup.
I saw a set of barrels in a field in Subic Bay in 1977-1978. I was told they were spare barrels for the New Jersey. They looked like these. They may still be there, for all I know. Anyone know anything about them?
I saw them at the main supply depot at Subic Bay in 1972 while stationed at the receiver site at Cubi Point. They were still there in 1978 during a inport visit by USS Shasta. The Philippine Navy owns the base now; I'll bet the barrels are still there. (Take a look on Google Earth!)
those are insane.. sometime we take for granted and don't actually realise what those guns were. I mean... each of them weighs as much as a locomotive and they were nine of them moving around and firing shells that weigh as much as a family car.. I'd like to see a target practice of those ...
Yep, nine exploding Volkswagens up to 20 miles downrange every 30 seconds. :D
Thank you for the
concise video editing!
120 tons of freedom on the way.Hey murica, saudações do Brasil.
A number of years ago one of these barrels was shipped to Sioux Falls South Dakota via special DOT railcar, for display at the Battleship South Dakota Memorial. So this is not the first time one of these has been moved somewhere for use as a museum piece.
I was dropping some mail off at the post office and saw one across the road. We have it in a park here now delawaremuseum.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ftmiles1.jpg
"They said I could buy long guns when I turned 18!"
Absolutely amazing video!
thanks for saving History all
How do you reline such a barrel? Facinating.
I am not 100% sure, but I believe you heat the barrel up, pull out the old liner, and put in a new one. These are called "built up guns" so they are basically multiple metal tubes one inside the other. If you check out this link, there is a cross section near the bottom of the article - eugeneleeslover.com/USNAVY/GUN-BARL-CONSTRUCTION-1.html
Love those Mack Prime Movers😎
Saw a couple in Hawthorne, CA, several years ago as i drove by several times. Any other drivers remember seeing them south of the entrance?
Autocar is one of my all time favourite trucks. They were just the sexist brute looking badass truck back in the day.
you must be right becuase a lot of drivers have been caught slappin the salami at truck stops in those beautys
Nice work. History will remember what you did.
I would rather see those beautiful rifles re-installed in the turrets instead of on display...
They are spare guns.
There are four Iowa class battleships that have their turrets practically untouched.
@Michael Any real man would get a hard on doing that. One hell of a post.
Thank you for your service, sir.
My father was one of the people to bore out those guns at Bethlehem Steel during the war. I asked why did they have to make so many, there were only so many battleships. He said that after so many rounds, the rifling would wear out and the barrels would have to be replaced. I suspect these barrels have been "shot out" I still have his tool chest with many of his tools he used. That's why I checked this vid out, hoping to see some WWII film at BS and maybe see a glimpse my Dad. But no luck.
What an excellent compilation!!
They need to put a small Bayonet on the end of that barrel for , "Close Quarter " Deer hunting....
What are those rods running between each of the saddles and out to the ends of the barrel? They look like they are designed to keep the barrel under a constant state of compression. But why?
I think they are like turnbuckles to keep tension on the end of the barrel so it doesn't wobble.
It's not an assault weapon I only use it for deer hunting.
No pistol grip or bayonet lug so nope, it's not an assault rifle.
Neither does it have a 20 round detachable box magazine nor a select fire switch to enable it to go fully automatic. Which would be interesting engineering feats in and of themselves. :-)
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Actually, I'm an old fashioned curmudgeon. If it's not chambered in 7.62x51 mm NATO I'm not interested. But to each their own. There are entire graveyards filled with people who have been sent to their reward by AR-15/M-16s and their assorted clones. I just prefer the heavier round. Especially given that I have no radio and as a result no air strikes, heavy artillery, tanks, helicopter resupply or other such assorted goodness to fall back on.
asdg asdf but sir your ammunition is about the size of the deer
It’s hard to appreciate the truly massive size of those things from a video.
Yes, I was fortunate enough to see the USS Missouri when it came to Fremantle, Western Australia it tied up at the Passenger Terminal, about 100 mts from my home. it was a truly awe inspiring sight from my balcony.
Its an even shorter distance to where the US submarines used to tie up during WW2, the harbour tugs use that berth nowadays.