Staff Colleges churn out some wacky stuff. Alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, the French putting up a fight. There's a hypothetical for every conceivable situation.
One of my classmates had a job as a projectionist in the local movie theater. I asked him why they used carbon rods instead of electric light bulbs in the projectors. He explained that the carbon rod lasted for a known amount of time before it got burned down to the nub, whereas an electric light bulb could burn out unexpectedly in a few minutes. They used the carbon rods for many years because there was virtually no chance that the light would suddenly go out. That's probably also why the Navy used them You can actually buy new carbon rods if you want to temporarily blind your neighbors some day (or night).
Carbon arc also has a wider spectrum of light. Hollywood likes them for that reason. It has a more natural look. Lots of power. There's a youtube video of a guy using one. 1000 amps.
@StringerNews1 You're comparing a color film to TV? Are you out of your mind? I'd stack up any 1970s film against any TV movie you want. You're going to lose that one. TV sucks. It has always sucked. Even if you go back to Gone With The Wind the colors in that movie are great and that was in the 1930s. 1930s is like cave man days compared to today.
My dad worked in the meteorological office on the USS Constellation in the 70's. It would be interesting to hear about how they tracked the weather and what kind of equipment they had or still have on the New Jersey.
They might have some of that equipment on the USS Midway or one of the Essex-class museum ships. You can't see that on the Constellation or any of her sister ships because A) American (CV-66) was sunk (2005?) in the Atlantic deliberately after weapons tests conducted to see how tough supercarriers are; B) Constellation herself was scrapped, the first and only Kitty Hawk class carrier disposed of conventionally so far; and C) Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and JFK (CV-67) are closed to the public but now on the docket for scrapping. It's only a matter of time for these last two conventionally-powered aircraft carriers. They're off donation/museum-keeping possibilities and the Navy is adamant they will be disposed of eventually. Midway could possibly have the meteorological office suite because it's the most up-to-date of the World War II era carriers after her refit in the late 1960s. The main changes are in the flight deck enlargement and steam catapults (she had 2 but they were more catapults than what had her sister ships had along with higher-load elevators) which made her comparable to the supercarriers. Below flight deck, she had some repairs and modernization -- recabling and air conditioning installed. The modernization of the USS Midway started about 5 years after the USS Constellation (CV-64) was commissioned. When the Connie was first deployed, the Midway-class carriers had already been in service over 15 years! It's possible the Midway had modern weather forecasting equipment installed. The original Navy plan (Reagan era) was to keep her in service into at least the mid-1990s but she was retired early. I don't know about what they have as far as weather forecasting goes on the Essex-class. I don't think they were ever as updated as Midway was. The most open of the Essex-class museum ships is the USS Lexington. You can see more of that ship than the other carriers including the Midway.
@@AvengerII I can tell you now Lexington does not have any of that equipment, I was employed with them for a bit and had the ability to walk all over the ship. The meteorology space is in the 08, or 09 level and is basically a storage space now with nothing but the name tag denoting what the space was used for originally.
@@kamdenbarclay486 Maybe they never needed a dedicated meteorology room after they became the training carrier. Lexington's last 30 years in service were spent as a training ship. I can't imagine much of anything was up to date when they retired those Essex-class ships in the 1960s and 1970s. They were already too small in the 1950s. When they sank the Oriskany as an artificial reef in 2006, she went down with a LOT of equipment that she retired with in 1976. I saw steam presses for laundry and maybe chairs for dental patients in dive footage shot on the ship (2008-2010). It's amazing what they didn't recycle and sent down with her. It's also rusting to death everywhere in the interiors now that they have currents of saltwater flowing throughout the hull.
Ryan, you're an excellent host for these vids. I don't know why, but the way you explain stuff is just gripping (even if you make a mistake or two sometimes).
When I was serving the only "Flood or Search" lights we had were 2 of the the small 12" lights that our Signalmen used for sending Morse code and doubled as search lights at night. There were a couple of times when we were doing Search and Rescue operations at night that we wished we had more numerous and larger lights.
I would be very interested in learning about the different colored plans in dealing with other countries. I found the irises of the searchlights interesting, an unexpected feature. Very cool.
Ryan, I know it's been said before but I will repeat. Your speaking skills and overall comfort in front of the camera have improved IMMENSELY. Combined with the improved audio and smoother editing, you should consider re-shooting some of your early content if time and money allows it. Cheers! Hoping to make it out to BNJ someday.
I was in Stage Crew during High School and the spotlights used carbon arcs. I still remember the sound of them being fired up. The operators had to constantly adjust the gap between the rods to keep the lights on.
Definitely would like to see what the plan was for us here in Australia, if memory serves, we had a pretty staunch army of emus defending the homeland around that time.
I was an SM2, largest light I was familiar with was a 24", we had two. The only time we used it was on a actual man over board, never found him. On lighting it off the carbon mount came all the way back and burned a hole in the back of the light". It hadn't been used in years. This was on a AKA USS Merrick 97. NQNB.
I think a Q&A, maybe similar to Drach's Drydock videos would be cool. Pre selected questions about various topics answered in a video, although probably not as astronomically long as some of his tend to run.
Ryan it would be great for all of the curators to get together and do a big chat on all the iowas, from stories, to conditions of each battleship, etc.
The searchlights ran on 120V DC. They would have had a motor generator to convert the 440V 3 phase AC to 120V DC. The arc ran around 90V and 150A. Just shy of 14kW into the light and a draw of 18kW. With each turbo generator of 1000kW and eight installed, all of the searchlights on wouldn't be a problem.
The issue is that they are being run at the same as the other huge power draws, the directors, mounts, and turrets. The ship struggled to keep up with power needs and would have to be strategic on what to use.
I would like to see a video on what a common meals were. What foods did the serve for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. How did that change from WWII, Vietnam, and Dessert Storm.
Let not forget about Yehudi :) Some navies including the US, UK and Canadian, used Yehudi lights, while the US limited it to aircraft, UK and Canada operated Diffused lighting camouflage on ships. While it seems counter production to just put a bunch of bright lights and shine the off the side of a ship towards and an emery ship thats miles away... The HMCS Cobalt for example mounted its powerful lights fore and on the side, this allowed the flower class corvette to get MUCH CLOSER to enemy subs or even ships without being spotted. Cutting the spotting distance of the ship down by 50% and in some cases as much as 75% as the lights would cause a "haze out" effect so you couldn't detect the ship against background lighting such as the sun.
The lights were still on destroyers and other ships, as late as the early 1960s. signalman used the 36" lights in Sasebo, Japan to talk to ships coming in from the ocean but still on the other side of a peninsula, by bouncing the light off clouds.
Hey Ryan was just wondering how much paint does the battleship new Jersey need to apply a fresh coat. Also how often does the memorial paint the ship. Btw just visited the USS Massachusetts in Fall River. Never knew just how big a battleship is. When I got done with the tour I felt like I had been to the gym for 8 hours. Keep up the great work you do I hope to visit the New Jersey soon.
The painting is constant, exterior paint requires more than interior, climate control spaces less often than those that are not. But we have several full time painters on board and many many volunteers that help paint. But couldn't tell you how many Sq ft
Fun fact: Of the World War II crew complement of 1,900 men, only 700 were needed to sail and fight the ship. The other 1,200 were only there to keep up with the painting.* * this isn't true
For some reason this video reminded me of the bit toward the end of HMS Ulysses where 44-inch searchlights are used to blind the pilots of attacking aircraft in hopes of messing up their attack runs.
I worked at a print shop that employed an ancient carbon arc plate burner for an old offset printing press. I could not get over how toxic the smoke was from that carbon arc lamp was. It smelled like a welding shop. I found out later the owner retrofitted the carbon arc lamp with welding rods since he could not get the exact carbon arcing elements for the light anymore.
There's also the slight issue that they suck power like a pig an the fact that the actual equipment that goes into them is either rare or not made anymore
@@Shinzon23 ww2 spotting arc lights work today. ruclips.net/video/9GKAMuUt46A/видео.html It's all analogue, but even electronics such as flight control computers for the b2 bombers could be replicated by top notch college students if you threw enough cash at them to motivate them like they are when they didn't complete there class project and it's due to be turned in within hours.
Royal Navy veteran Prince Philip, was mentioned in British dispatches for his 'bravery and enterprise' during the Battle of Cape Matapan against the Italian fleet in March 1941. The Duke of Edinburgh was a midshipman aboard HMS Valiant off the southern coast of Greece when he earned his honorable citation. Philip had been in control of the searchlights as the ship battled an Italian cruiser when he spotted an unexpected second enemy vessel nearby. He survived unscathed amid his shattered lights as enemy cannon shell ripped into his position. His commanding officer said: 'Thanks to his alertness and appreciation of the situation, we were able to sink in five minutes two 8in gun Italian cruisers.' Shortly afterwards, he was awarded the Greek War Cross of Valor.
Question are the main 16inch guns turret's air tight during general quarters? In the case of a chemical attack and chemical warfare or would they not use the main guns.
That was pretty amazing, especially the part where the search lights could be slaved to the 5" directors and remotely automatically trained. Not enough circuitry could fit into those panels to do that (today sure, but not in the 1940's), so the capability must be built into the fire control computers, or perhaps the director mounts?
I have a quick question. A simple reply will do. If there is a fire onboard, in the present day, how much "modern" safety equipment is onboard internally. Secondly. If something happens and the power does go out, again in the present day, what do you have for emergency lighting, I know the battle lanterns are scattered around BUT I'm guessing they wouldn't function? right?
We follow modern fire codes like a building would, so sprinklers in some places, fire extinguishers, fire alarms and smoke detectors. These rules also require emergency lights. Our battle lanterns are somewhat funcitonal but are merely supplemental to the primary emergency lights required by local regulations.
Also when your stadning in front of the automatic controls for the lights and guns behind you is what looks to possibly be a breaker or fuse system with those t handles?? Could you go into what those are?
The japanese used nightfighting for ground forces too, that is why the M3 carbine was developed as a night vision weapon to counter the japanese scouts and sappers, the carbines (and its limited night fighting scope) limited effective range were not a detriment in close range island fighting.
I think more probably status indicators, RED = OFF or STANDBY and GREEN = ON / OPERATING but I'm just guessing. It might be that the guys on the North Carolina, Alabama, Massachusetts or Texas would know or have some of the documentation or manuals for theirs since these are a system that would be common to all.
Not sure if the systems work this way, but perhaps the red and green lights indicate which plot room is currently in control of each turret/searchlight?
I'm guessing some of this was filmed just before or after the "chalk test" video ... based on the chunk of chalk sitting on the yellow box on the left side of the frame starting around 7:20.
Those search light mechanisms' housing like a lot like what they have on those reflecting stations/beacons they used for aircraft navigation before radar and control towers became the standards for airport and aircraft control. Come to think of it, equipment in a lighthouse looks a lot like this!
Totally unrelated - If I recall correctly when I visited the New Jersey I noticed a rubber like divider around mid ships separating the fore and aft of this ship. I assume is to accommodate the flex stress when ship is in rough seas. How deep into the ship does it go? What does it do to the integrity of the armor? Have you made a video about it?
Searching for men overboard was mentioned. If only it worked that well. We lost a man overboard 1 Dec '69. He was known to be a weak swimmer. But, we came to a dead stop and used beau coup flares to light the place like day. Our destroyer also did the same and had her searchlight lit up. We put a couple heloes in the air as well as our whale boat. The destroyer put her boat in the water. They got SN Rogers in the light 2-3 times. We still lost him. It was only a moderate sea and we could hear him calling for help, all to no avail.
The father of one of my childhood friends had a WWII surplus arch carbon search light or two he used for advertising purposes for grand openings and such. I always thought that would be a cool job then.
The guys manning the forward port searchlight on Showboat had a REALLY bad day, when a friendly 5" round hot the 5"gun director right above them... You can still see the repair, where they plated over the hole.
@@stevensheldon9271 a small USN patrol craft didn't recognise NJ from the radar signature. After several attempts by the patrol craft to force NJ to signal, they sent a code saying "identity yourself or we will open fire" Synder had a signalman get on the 24" and reply "AA open fire when ready, fear god, dreadnought" with the heading referring to bb-62.
You mention your counterparts on BB Iowa , BBWisconsin and BBMissourah Do you guys have an anual gettogether? And when that happens.. do you guys play a match of you sunk my Battleship?
@@johnknotabuc I found this one of an inbound missile on the Missouri. At about 2:40 you can hear the alert. Some of the comments are from crew who were onboard. ruclips.net/video/yonyV6_6ur4/видео.html
how could you not be tempted to open that top pannel with the lights blanked out to see if the wiring and so on is still there? yes im aware of the dangers i do a fair bit of work with industrial electrical systems, juat saying, id want to know. especially after your comment about how the wiring used a common trunk. id want to know if its still there too, and whatever device (motor generator?!) that produced the DC for the lamps? if it was a MG set or a mercury arc rectifier, neither are small or subtle!
The bigger the light the louder the message. Arc lights don't just switch on, off and on again, they need to be started. Hence the iris for a quick on off.
And why would you use the signal lamp when you could just radio all the ships in your task force at once? Or ship to ship... Because in the 30s, ship radio communications were predominantly telegraphy on HF or High Frequency (now it is, due to technology advances, rather low frequency) radio which had a highly variable and frequent long range...right into the enemy radio intercept service which could find your location if not understand the signals. The same radio signalmen could use their skill with signal lamps adjusting the light to target ship to ship or a few ships (not sure the later was done). Said light beam did not go far and at least not over the horizon. Later in the war (first sets may have been 1941), it was more common to use radiotelephone (voice) TBS sets or 'Talk Between Ships' (I think). This was on VHF frequencies which typically also were line of sight. (Perhaps unknown at the time, VHF can suddenly go ocean wide for minutes to hours with 'sporadic skip'. Regardless, see these operating procedures I found: www.navy-radio.com/flory/id11.html ) . Here is info for signal lamps: military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Signal_lamp and the upgraded version news.usni.org/2017/07/19/office-of-naval-research-project-set-to-give-21st-century-relevance-to-the-200-year-old-signal-lamp I first was licensed for amateur radio in 1958 learning the same WW2 technology and procedures and using similar or sometimes the same WW2 equipment then becoming surplus. In Viet Nam, we sometimes used the same encryption, teleprinters and even sometimes hand radiotelegraphy from WW2. It takes a lot of trained operators a lot of effort and there are a lot of mistakes and delays. I would pick signal lamps if that meant assured short range and no need to encrypt/decrypt. In Viet Nam, I saw signal lamps used just once at Cam Ranh Bay...to set up lunch for some officers. :-)
The ships that litter the bottom of “Iron Bottom Sound “ Guadalcanal and the slot fought battles that search lights were the deciding factors and the Japanese were better than us . Search lites would instantly lite up a ship and one second later a broadside of 15 inch shells would smash home the out come of the battle was decided right there and then !
@@michaelsommers2356 Yes, Yes I am, and I plan to resurrect WW2 military equipment and tactics to do it for nostalgia. I'm even having some Army Air Corps uniforms made up so me and my buddies can fly over in some P51 mustangs before landing to have some margaritas in the Mexican Presidential Palace with some hot senoritas. Your application to join has been rejected as as its generally felt you will scare off the ladies.
@@michaelsommers2356 yes I am aware. My group has been running intel and war game scenarios for weeks. We have gotten so well trained and equipped that in consultation with the DOD the color has been upgraded to Forest Green.
I know your goal is to stay in 1980's condition. In one video you said there are so many berthing compartments left un viewed because it just becomes redundant, it would be nice to see one converted to 1944 standards for comparison.
I would like to see how the gun directors could be switched to opearate from the plotting solutions. And if they continued to track the target they knew the computers had a good solution.
The sensors on youtube exist for a reason, they are trying to determine content from neo nazis. We don't want to run afoul of those sensors, it messes with our ad revenue. Which pays for the channel.
@@BattleshipNewJersey There was definitely no ill intent, it was a very small detail. I also agree with Rich history is history good or bad you can’t forget either.
Since the hull assembly and hardware installs are usually happening in tandem I'd recon it wasnt horrible to initially wire but maintenance mustve been a nightmare if any systems developed a short along the wire.
Visited New Jersey today. Best museum ship I’ve been on
Thanks for coming by!
The war plans sound interesting.
Staff Colleges churn out some wacky stuff. Alien invasion, zombie apocalypse, the French putting up a fight. There's a hypothetical for every conceivable situation.
I agrre
@@echo88charlie The French putting up a fight went over the top!
It would be cool to see a video on the ship's electrical system, in specific the large fuses and breakers.
At least it's easier to trace out the open cabling than it is in a building where things get run in conduits and behind walls.
I would also like to see a video about electrical distribution, there must be some massive panels and switchgear in a closet somewhere
I support this idea.
That sounds like a very interesting video indeed
Is there a "full" electrical schematic around? "Follow along on page 123-A3 to 425-B6" huge page turning :D
One of my classmates had a job as a projectionist in the local movie theater.
I asked him why they used carbon rods instead of electric light bulbs in the projectors.
He explained that the carbon rod lasted for a known amount of time before it got burned down to the nub, whereas an electric light bulb could burn out unexpectedly in a few minutes. They used the carbon rods for many years because there was virtually no chance that the light would suddenly go out. That's probably also why the Navy used them
You can actually buy new carbon rods if you want to temporarily blind your neighbors some day (or night).
Carbon arc also has a wider spectrum of light. Hollywood likes them for that reason. It has a more natural look.
Lots of power. There's a youtube video of a guy using one. 1000 amps.
I thought all the carbon rods were used up, brining an end to carbon arc spotlights.
@@russellhltn1396 Nope, there's still available. cinemacarbons.com/page3.htm
@StringerNews1 You're comparing a color film to TV? Are you out of your mind? I'd stack up any 1970s film against any TV movie you want. You're going to lose that one. TV sucks. It has always sucked. Even if you go back to Gone With The Wind the colors in that movie are great and that was in the 1930s. 1930s is like cave man days compared to today.
My dad worked in the meteorological office on the USS Constellation in the 70's. It would be interesting to hear about how they tracked the weather and what kind of equipment they had or still have on the New Jersey.
They might have some of that equipment on the USS Midway or one of the Essex-class museum ships.
You can't see that on the Constellation or any of her sister ships because A) American (CV-66) was sunk (2005?) in the Atlantic deliberately after weapons tests conducted to see how tough supercarriers are; B) Constellation herself was scrapped, the first and only Kitty Hawk class carrier disposed of conventionally so far; and C) Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and JFK (CV-67) are closed to the public but now on the docket for scrapping. It's only a matter of time for these last two conventionally-powered aircraft carriers. They're off donation/museum-keeping possibilities and the Navy is adamant they will be disposed of eventually.
Midway could possibly have the meteorological office suite because it's the most up-to-date of the World War II era carriers after her refit in the late 1960s. The main changes are in the flight deck enlargement and steam catapults (she had 2 but they were more catapults than what had her sister ships had along with higher-load elevators) which made her comparable to the supercarriers. Below flight deck, she had some repairs and modernization -- recabling and air conditioning installed.
The modernization of the USS Midway started about 5 years after the USS Constellation (CV-64) was commissioned. When the Connie was first deployed, the Midway-class carriers had already been in service over 15 years!
It's possible the Midway had modern weather forecasting equipment installed. The original Navy plan (Reagan era) was to keep her in service into at least the mid-1990s but she was retired early.
I don't know about what they have as far as weather forecasting goes on the Essex-class. I don't think they were ever as updated as Midway was. The most open of the Essex-class museum ships is the USS Lexington. You can see more of that ship than the other carriers including the Midway.
@@AvengerII I can tell you now Lexington does not have any of that equipment, I was employed with them for a bit and had the ability to walk all over the ship. The meteorology space is in the 08, or 09 level and is basically a storage space now with nothing but the name tag denoting what the space was used for originally.
@@kamdenbarclay486 Maybe they never needed a dedicated meteorology room after they became the training carrier. Lexington's last 30 years in service were spent as a training ship.
I can't imagine much of anything was up to date when they retired those Essex-class ships in the 1960s and 1970s. They were already too small in the 1950s. When they sank the Oriskany as an artificial reef in 2006, she went down with a LOT of equipment that she retired with in 1976. I saw steam presses for laundry and maybe chairs for dental patients in dive footage shot on the ship (2008-2010).
It's amazing what they didn't recycle and sent down with her. It's also rusting to death everywhere in the interiors now that they have currents of saltwater flowing throughout the hull.
Ryan, you're an excellent host for these vids. I don't know why, but the way you explain stuff is just gripping (even if you make a mistake or two sometimes).
When I was serving the only "Flood or Search" lights we had were 2 of the the small 12" lights that our Signalmen used for sending Morse code and doubled as search lights at night. There were a couple of times when we were doing Search and Rescue operations at night that we wished we had more numerous and larger lights.
I would be very interested in learning about the different colored plans in dealing with other countries. I found the irises of the searchlights interesting, an unexpected feature. Very cool.
Ryan, I know it's been said before but I will repeat. Your speaking skills and overall comfort in front of the camera have improved IMMENSELY. Combined with the improved audio and smoother editing, you should consider re-shooting some of your early content if time and money allows it.
Cheers! Hoping to make it out to BNJ someday.
You handled that very brightly… love the vids
I was in Stage Crew during High School and the spotlights used carbon arcs. I still remember the sound of them being fired up. The operators had to constantly adjust the gap between the rods to keep the lights on.
I just found your channel like a week ago and I absolutely love it. Keep up the great work!
Welcome aboard!
Definitely would like to see what the plan was for us here in Australia, if memory serves, we had a pretty staunch army of emus defending the homeland around that time.
Yes war plans would be a fascinating topic particularly regarding the involvement of the battleships
This is one of my new favorite channels. I hope y'all get tons of subscribers.
I was an SM2, largest light I was familiar with was a 24", we had two. The only time we used it was on a actual man over board, never found him. On lighting it off the carbon mount came all the way back and burned a hole in the back of the light". It hadn't been used in years. This was on a AKA USS Merrick 97. NQNB.
I think a Q&A, maybe similar to Drach's Drydock videos would be cool. Pre selected questions about various topics answered in a video, although probably not as astronomically long as some of his tend to run.
That's pretty much how we get our videos every night. We pick a question or related questions from comments and answer it.
I was amused to see that the searchlight toggle switches were painted.
"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, paint it!"
Jack
So if I come across a sleeping officer...
It's obvious... Paint him.
If i was to share one video to start sharing with others, where should I start, Thanks for what you do
OMG the 24" lamp is amazing
Ikr, it's beautiful!
And designed with a slide rule like the ships and everything else back then...thats really amazing.
I want one as a flashlight
Great video! Again!)))))
Ryan it would be great for all of the curators to get together and do a big chat on all the iowas, from stories, to conditions of each battleship, etc.
The searchlights ran on 120V DC. They would have had a motor generator to convert the 440V 3 phase AC to 120V DC. The arc ran around 90V and 150A. Just shy of 14kW into the light and a draw of 18kW. With each turbo generator of 1000kW and eight installed, all of the searchlights on wouldn't be a problem.
I wonder if he meant that the museum wouldn't be able to run them, in the hypothetical situation where they had them and they were working?
The issue is that they are being run at the same as the other huge power draws, the directors, mounts, and turrets. The ship struggled to keep up with power needs and would have to be strategic on what to use.
Interesting Thank You
My grandfather was a shipyard electrician at Mare Island, working mostly on submarines.
I would like to see a video on what a common meals were. What foods did the serve for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks. How did that change from WWII, Vietnam, and Dessert Storm.
the premiere was great. i really enjoyed it i think you should do them again
We do premieres 5 nights a week, same time!
@@BattleshipNewJersey "Same Bat-time...same Bat-channel".
7:00pm Eastern
Let not forget about Yehudi :) Some navies including the US, UK and Canadian, used Yehudi lights, while the US limited it to aircraft, UK and Canada operated Diffused lighting camouflage on ships. While it seems counter production to just put a bunch of bright lights and shine the off the side of a ship towards and an emery ship thats miles away...
The HMCS Cobalt for example mounted its powerful lights fore and on the side, this allowed the flower class corvette to get MUCH CLOSER to enemy subs or even ships without being spotted. Cutting the spotting distance of the ship down by 50% and in some cases as much as 75% as the lights would cause a "haze out" effect so you couldn't detect the ship against background lighting such as the sun.
i'd love to hear about the war plans
The "Rainbow" plans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_war_plans
The lights were still on destroyers and other ships, as late as the early 1960s. signalman used the 36" lights in Sasebo, Japan to talk to ships coming in from the ocean but still on the other side of a peninsula, by bouncing the light off clouds.
Solid! Top KEK!
Hey Ryan was just wondering how much paint does the battleship new Jersey need to apply a fresh coat. Also how often does the memorial paint the ship. Btw just visited the USS Massachusetts in Fall River. Never knew just how big a battleship is. When I got done with the tour I felt like I had been to the gym for 8 hours. Keep up the great work you do I hope to visit the New Jersey soon.
The painting is constant, exterior paint requires more than interior, climate control spaces less often than those that are not. But we have several full time painters on board and many many volunteers that help paint. But couldn't tell you how many Sq ft
Fun fact: Of the World War II crew complement of 1,900 men, only 700 were needed to sail and fight the ship. The other 1,200 were only there to keep up with the painting.*
* this isn't true
For some reason this video reminded me of the bit toward the end of HMS Ulysses where 44-inch searchlights are used to blind the pilots of attacking aircraft in hopes of messing up their attack runs.
I worked at a print shop that employed an ancient carbon arc plate burner for an old offset printing press. I could not get over how toxic the smoke was from that carbon arc lamp was. It smelled like a welding shop. I found out later the owner retrofitted the carbon arc lamp with welding rods since he could not get the exact carbon arcing elements for the light anymore.
It would be cool if the 32 inch spot light could be reactivated for events like a memorial service.
NJ does not have the 32in lights anymore, but our smaller signal lamps are functional and used occasionally
There's also the slight issue that they suck power like a pig an the fact that the actual equipment that goes into them is either rare or not made anymore
@@Shinzon23 ww2 spotting arc lights work today. ruclips.net/video/9GKAMuUt46A/видео.html
It's all analogue, but even electronics such as flight control computers for the b2 bombers could be replicated by top notch college students if you threw enough cash at them to motivate them like they are when they didn't complete there class project and it's due to be turned in within hours.
would love for ryan to start turning on switches to show us what they do :)
Royal Navy veteran Prince Philip, was mentioned in British dispatches for his 'bravery and enterprise' during the Battle of Cape Matapan against the Italian fleet in March 1941.
The Duke of Edinburgh was a midshipman aboard HMS Valiant off the southern coast of Greece when he earned his honorable citation.
Philip had been in control of the searchlights as the ship battled an Italian cruiser when he spotted an unexpected second enemy vessel nearby.
He survived unscathed amid his shattered lights as enemy cannon shell ripped into his position.
His commanding officer said: 'Thanks to his alertness and appreciation of the situation, we were able to sink in five minutes two 8in gun Italian cruisers.'
Shortly afterwards, he was awarded the Greek War Cross of Valor.
Question are the main 16inch guns turret's air tight during general quarters? In the case of a chemical attack and chemical warfare or would they not use the main guns.
That was pretty amazing, especially the part where the search lights could be slaved to the 5" directors and remotely automatically trained. Not enough circuitry could fit into those panels to do that (today sure, but not in the 1940's), so the capability must be built into the fire control computers, or perhaps the director mounts?
I've heard of the War Plans, but I think we need more info on it Ryan.
7:20 chalk test chalk
I have a quick question. A simple reply will do.
If there is a fire onboard, in the present day, how much "modern" safety equipment is onboard internally.
Secondly. If something happens and the power does go out, again in the present day, what do you have for emergency lighting, I know the battle lanterns are scattered around BUT I'm guessing they wouldn't function? right?
We follow modern fire codes like a building would, so sprinklers in some places, fire extinguishers, fire alarms and smoke detectors. These rules also require emergency lights. Our battle lanterns are somewhat funcitonal but are merely supplemental to the primary emergency lights required by local regulations.
@@BattleshipNewJersey Thank you for the reply.
Were were the spare parts stored, for example the carbon arc thingies?
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Also when your stadning in front of the automatic controls for the lights and guns behind you is what looks to possibly be a breaker or fuse system with those t handles?? Could you go into what those are?
I think those are part of the analog computer system they used. He touches on them here ruclips.net/video/YnizGv2YQ_g/видео.html
it's part of the switchboard for the fire control system basically to select sets of fire directors, computers and gun mounts
The japanese used nightfighting for ground forces too, that is why the M3 carbine was developed as a night vision weapon to counter the japanese scouts and sappers, the carbines (and its limited night fighting scope) limited effective range were not a detriment in close range island fighting.
I'm going to search for that panel on the North Carolina now.
10:34 Could green and red be for starboard and port side?
I think more probably status indicators, RED = OFF or STANDBY and GREEN = ON / OPERATING but I'm just guessing. It might be that the guys on the North Carolina, Alabama, Massachusetts or Texas would know or have some of the documentation or manuals for theirs since these are a system that would be common to all.
Not sure if the systems work this way, but perhaps the red and green lights indicate which plot room is currently in control of each turret/searchlight?
I want all the colors!
What would happen if you _did_ try to turn on all five big searchlights at once (back when the ship had them, obviously)?
War plans sounds like a cool video.
I'm guessing some of this was filmed just before or after the "chalk test" video ... based on the chunk of chalk sitting on the yellow box on the left side of the frame starting around 7:20.
Good catch! I was hoping someone would see that easter egg!
Those search light mechanisms' housing like a lot like what they have on those reflecting stations/beacons they used for aircraft navigation before radar and control towers became the standards for airport and aircraft control.
Come to think of it, equipment in a lighthouse looks a lot like this!
Totally unrelated - If I recall correctly when I visited the New Jersey I noticed a rubber like divider around mid ships separating the fore and aft of this ship. I assume is to accommodate the flex stress when ship is in rough seas. How deep into the ship does it go? What does it do to the integrity of the armor? Have you made a video about it?
The expansion joint: ruclips.net/video/LiR-3FpHrWo/видео.html
Searching for men overboard was mentioned. If only it worked that well. We lost a man overboard 1 Dec '69. He was known to be a weak swimmer. But, we came to a dead stop and used beau coup flares to light the place like day. Our destroyer also did the same and had her searchlight lit up. We put a couple heloes in the air as well as our whale boat. The destroyer put her boat in the water. They got SN Rogers in the light 2-3 times. We still lost him. It was only a moderate sea and we could hear him calling for help, all to no avail.
What’s a battery director?
Can you please explain how Directors work....the varieties vs modern day how they all work. Thanks
Nice
The father of one of my childhood friends had a WWII surplus arch carbon search light or two he used for advertising purposes for grand openings and such. I always thought that would be a cool job then.
did you do a video on the ships store
Yes we did: ruclips.net/video/CHChjABURu8/видео.html
2:45 I sure wouldn't want my rack located behind the 36" lights! 😲
Maybe you made a video about this already but I'd like to see the detailed process as a whole from acquiring a target , aiming, and firing
The guys manning the forward port searchlight on Showboat had a REALLY bad day, when a friendly 5" round hot the 5"gun director right above them...
You can still see the repair, where they plated over the hole.
I'd like to learn about that control panel behind you with all the knobs.
Id be happy to come climb the funnel for you ryan lol even if theres not a super good reason id still be happy to do it 4 you guys lol
Well the deletion of the 36" explains why Snyder used the 24" for his infamous morris code quote in Vietnam
What was the quote?
@@stevensheldon9271 a small USN patrol craft didn't recognise NJ from the radar signature. After several attempts by the patrol craft to force NJ to signal, they sent a code saying "identity yourself or we will open fire" Synder had a signalman get on the 24" and reply "AA open fire when ready, fear god, dreadnought" with the heading referring to bb-62.
Morse, as in , Samuel Morse
@@kk6aw my phone auto corrected it
You mention your counterparts on BB Iowa , BBWisconsin and BBMissourah
Do you guys have an anual gettogether?
And when that happens.. do you guys play a match of you sunk my Battleship?
oooooo The a series on all the various war plans would be awesome.
The "Rainbow" plans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_war_plans
I'd like to learn about the radio setup, both WWII and 80's config.
very interested in the colored warplans!
The "Rainbow" plans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_color-coded_war_plans
How did the searchlights survive main battery shock?
They don't use a fragile filaments like an incandescent light bulb. Instead there are carbon electrodes with an electric arc between them.
Cool
I'd love to see any footage of the Iowa's activity in the Persian Gulf.
I wonder how much of it is still classified...
@@AnimeSunglasses I'll take whatever they can come up with
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@@johnknotabuc I found this one of an inbound missile on the Missouri. At about 2:40 you can hear the alert. Some of the comments are from crew who were onboard. ruclips.net/video/yonyV6_6ur4/видео.html
I’d like a group of war plan videos, if you’ve got time
I know this is an older video but my question is where were the searchlight directors?
What are the walls of switches for?
Basically they control where information comes from (like which director) which computer it goes to. And then which gun it goes to.
What happened to the 5 inch guns removed in the 80's. Are they with the search lights?
The removed guns were likely turned into scrap
how could you not be tempted to open that top pannel with the lights blanked out to see if the wiring and so on is still there? yes im aware of the dangers i do a fair bit of work with industrial electrical systems, juat saying, id want to know. especially after your comment about how the wiring used a common trunk. id want to know if its still there too, and whatever device (motor generator?!) that produced the DC for the lamps? if it was a MG set or a mercury arc rectifier, neither are small or subtle!
Ryan, I would love to know more about US Pre-WWII naval doctrine.
Try this talk by John Kuehn of the Army Command and General Staff College: ruclips.net/video/a8pXp3xG3sI/видео.html
Scince hooked to the 5 inch guns manly for torpedo boats?
The bigger the light the louder the message.
Arc lights don't just switch on, off and on again, they need to be started. Hence the iris for a quick on off.
And why would you use the signal lamp when you could just radio all the ships in your task force at once? Or ship to ship... Because in the 30s, ship radio communications were predominantly telegraphy on HF or High Frequency (now it is, due to technology advances, rather low frequency) radio which had a highly variable and frequent long range...right into the enemy radio intercept service which could find your location if not understand the signals. The same radio signalmen could use their skill with signal lamps adjusting the light to target ship to ship or a few ships (not sure the later was done). Said light beam did not go far and at least not over the horizon. Later in the war (first sets may have been 1941), it was more common to use radiotelephone (voice) TBS sets or 'Talk Between Ships' (I think). This was on VHF frequencies which typically also were line of sight. (Perhaps unknown at the time, VHF can suddenly go ocean wide for minutes to hours with 'sporadic skip'. Regardless, see these operating procedures I found: www.navy-radio.com/flory/id11.html ) . Here is info for signal lamps: military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Signal_lamp and the upgraded version news.usni.org/2017/07/19/office-of-naval-research-project-set-to-give-21st-century-relevance-to-the-200-year-old-signal-lamp
I first was licensed for amateur radio in 1958 learning the same WW2 technology and procedures and using similar or sometimes the same WW2 equipment then becoming surplus. In Viet Nam, we sometimes used the same encryption, teleprinters and even sometimes hand radiotelegraphy from WW2. It takes a lot of trained operators a lot of effort and there are a lot of mistakes and delays. I would pick signal lamps if that meant assured short range and no need to encrypt/decrypt. In Viet Nam, I saw signal lamps used just once at Cam Ranh Bay...to set up lunch for some officers. :-)
The ships that litter the bottom of “Iron Bottom Sound “ Guadalcanal and the slot fought battles that search lights were the deciding factors and the Japanese were better than us . Search lites would instantly lite up a ship and one second later a broadside of 15 inch shells would smash home the out come of the battle was decided right there and then !
War plan Red and Green, if you have to ask the answer is yes, I would like to hear more.
Are you planning on invading Britain or Mexico?
@@michaelsommers2356 Yes, Yes I am, and I plan to resurrect WW2 military equipment and tactics to do it for nostalgia. I'm even having some Army Air Corps uniforms made up so me and my buddies can fly over in some P51 mustangs before landing to have some margaritas in the Mexican Presidential Palace with some hot senoritas. Your application to join has been rejected as as its generally felt you will scare off the ladies.
@@nunya1877-p4f If you're going after Mexico, you need War Plan Green, then.
@@michaelsommers2356 yes I am aware. My group has been running intel and war game scenarios for weeks. We have gotten so well trained and equipped that in consultation with the DOD the color has been upgraded to Forest Green.
I really want to see a video about war plan red from a naval point of view
You might start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red Basically, the plan was limited to invading Canada.
So, my cat jumped on my lap well watching this. Did USS New Jersey have any cats or other animals intentionally on board during her life?
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@@BattleshipNewJersey I will, thanks.
@)1:42 Rave parties, everyone knows that!
WW2 rave parties were the bomb!
Could you make a video on would New Jersey Win the battle of North Cape Sea
I know your goal is to stay in 1980's condition. In one video you said there are so many berthing compartments left un viewed because it just becomes redundant, it would be nice to see one converted to 1944 standards for comparison.
I was responsible for repairing the carbon arc searchlights on the ship when I was an EM.
neat
As an Australian, I would be interested to know more about the War Plan concerning Australia...
Probably concerning Australia being attacked by some other foreign power.
I would like to see how the gun directors could be switched to opearate from the plotting solutions. And if they continued to track the target they knew the computers had a good solution.
Wow a Kreigsmarine flag?? You didn’t censor that Libby? I’m shocked
Noticed it too late or I would have
@@BattleshipNewJersey I have no doubt
History matters, good or bad, whether you and RUclips like it or not.
The sensors on youtube exist for a reason, they are trying to determine content from neo nazis. We don't want to run afoul of those sensors, it messes with our ad revenue. Which pays for the channel.
@@BattleshipNewJersey There was definitely no ill intent, it was a very small detail. I also agree with Rich history is history good or bad you can’t forget either.
War plan video please
Wiring up the ship must have been infinitely more challenging than buidling the hull.
Since the hull assembly and hardware installs are usually happening in tandem I'd recon it wasnt horrible to initially wire but maintenance mustve been a nightmare if any systems developed a short along the wire.
It would be cool to see all the war plans.
Will we som see Ryan make a video of the steam turbines?
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@@BattleshipNewJersey thanks 👍
Always wonder why the Titanic ( and other ships ) did not have a forward search light in dangerous waters
To see Mr Limpet