Slammer58 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/uss-new-jersey-leave-port-first-time-24-years-big-guns-will-fire-salute-love-ship 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightPhoenix07 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakob Knight Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 For those able and interested.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral_Karasu Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Merged topic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDuckman Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Ignore the music. It gets better. There are live streams too. Search YT. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDuckman Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 New Jersey is now moored close to the drydock that was strengthened to handle the fast BBs during the war. She will be ballasted down tomorrow with 500,000 gallons of water up in the bow. The dock is currently occupied so it will be about a week before the big ship can enter it. Battleship New Jersey posts 5 videos a week. You can follow the channel here https://www.youtube.com/@BattleshipNewJersey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral_Karasu Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I've kind of hijacked USS New Jersey while she was under way, so you'll now find her in the Historical section. There is a link in General chat that expires in 30 days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDuckman Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 6 hours ago, Jakob Knight said: For those able and interested.... Jump about 11 minutes in where all the speechifying is done and the drone cameras take over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDuckman Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 9 hours ago, Slammer58 said: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/uss-new-jersey-leave-port-first-time-24-years-big-guns-will-fire-salute-love-ship The 16" guns will NOT fire. They'd break windows on both sides of the river, and probably cause fatalities from heart attacks and auto accidents. The ship was firing the 40mm saluting cannon with 1/8 charges on the way down the river. Not even the 5" guns, though they can and do sometimes fire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDuckman Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 The reason NJ is ballasting down in the bow is that because her tanks are empty, she rides about 10 feet higher in the bow than in the stern. In order to have her present to the keel blocks a relatively flat keel, she's taking on 2000 tons of water. Interestingly, the Iowas are somewhat longer than the NCs and SoDaks partly because a longer hull means more speed for the same power, but also because the architects wanted more reserve buoyancy, and they got it with a longer bow. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfswetpaws Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Cool videos. Good topic. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral_Karasu Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 @Slammer58 FYI @HogHammer As we discussed, I'm 'evicting' this type of threads from 'Historical Section' over to here. What needs to be decided is where they will fit under the 'Naval Museums' club structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDuckman Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 I think this topic ultimately belongs in Museum. How to make the user base aware that it exists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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