I can tell you it was a great tour for a 14 year old kid back in the 70’s! There was mention in the article of the new ships being designed for canal transit and the NC is considerably wider. If my tech wasn’t so pathetic I could post pictures...
I must have toured the USS North Carolina just a couple years after she was put on display in 1965. I was around 14 years old myself as we spent a week at Long Beach, NC. We also visited many places my parent lived when my father was a young Marine stationed at Camp LeJune. The Marines really made him a hard ass as a father, thank goodness he wasn’t a lifer.