Posted on 03/20/2024 9:20:29 PM PDT by frogjerk
CAMDEN, N.J. -- Residents in the Philadelphia area are about to see a rare site — a battleship floating down the Delaware River. The USS New Jersey is scheduled to move from its dock in Camden on Thursday, when it will head to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for extensive maintenance work. The vessel, guided by tugboats, will initially head to the Paulsboro Marine Terminal, where it will be balanced to prepare for dry docking, and will then go to the Navy Yard six days later. The maintenance work is expected to take about two months to complete, officials said. Three major repair projects are planned, including repainting the ship’s hull, fixing the anti-corrosion system underneath the ship and inspecting through-hull openings. The battleship, which was built in the 1940s in Philadelphia, served for about 50 years before its retirement in February 1991. It has been a floating museum since 2011. The ship was built at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was launched from there on Dec. 7, 1942, the first anniversary of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor. The ship is the most decorated battleship in Navy history, earning distinction in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and conflicts in the Middle East, according to its website. The ship steamed more miles, fought in more battles and fired more shells in combat than any other battleship.
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Agreed! When I was a youngin’ the Jersey docked in Long Beach, Ca. and we toured her. I still have the brochures. Now we host the Iowa here. Awesome.
Never got to fly out to her off RVN. A few flights did.
Only to the Repose (IIRC) hospital ship.
Do remember an epic night when the NJ was firing over our heads to destroy Camp Carroll bunkers so the NVA could not use the fortifications.
No way to describe the sound of those shells going overhead.
The New Jersey Museum has a YouTube channel where the curator posts frequent videos about the ship.
They posted one about 6 hours ago titled: “Make Ready To Get Underway: Final Preparations for Ship’s Departure”. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei-sIDvZnVY
They have a whole series on prep for dry-docking. They plan to live-stream the ship movements.
Do we know if Steven Seagal is on board?
Do the rest of our Iowa-Class battle ships have the potential to be refitted and used or are they too far gone with needs for refitting beyond what we can reasonably still perform,,,? Ie PowerPoint, transmission systems, etc?
Power plant
This is the ship the Navy and needs in its inventory, in active reserve status. It simply doesn’t have the raw firepower the Marine Corps needs for fire support.
All four existing Iowa-class battleships have been stricken from the Navy’s register of vessels. While they now serve as floating museums, believe it would be cost prohibitive, technologically challenging, and not strategically or operationally useful to update and commission them a fourth time.
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We’re moving to massive, relatively inexpensive unmanned intelligent systems for surface, subsurface, land, air, and space missions. We will fight remote pushbutton wars. Standby for Skynet to become active.
Over the years a couple have been refitted/upgraded multiple times, including the Wisconsin.
Getting it ready to donate to Ukraine.
Most missiles today hitting them would just make a dent that could be easily buffed out.
I feel sorry for the New Jersey. It’s a good thing not many Philly jerks would know how to start it up and drive off with it.
Thank you. I wonder if indeed, we still have the shipyard drydock capability for major refitting of engine and drive systems for those Iowa Class battleships today? To make them reliable in battle and patrols.
That ship seems to be making a lot of smoke.... does it run on coal? vs black oil bunker fuel?
Speculating here.
Could it be refitted with cruise missiles, CIWS anti ship missile defenses, and of course, it’s 16 inch guns to help the Ukes around Crimea, etc?
Or would it be a sitting duck without close air support and air superiority?
Or would it be a sitting duck without close air support and air superiority?
= = =
Maybe it is ‘bait’ to attract drones and cruise missiles.
Can it attract enough to deplete enemy supplies.
It runs on bunker, and needed a tug to follow it, so prone to breakdowns it was; caught fire in dry dock, then capsized; under repair until funds ran out. Now just rusting/resting.
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