Not a bad idea if you want to control the coasts while fighting North Korea.

I would like to have seen better pictures of the damaged propellor. Was the damage flared towards the stern, indicating contact with a submerged object while under tow. Seems like a lot of speculation on the various damage but no real clue as to the cause. Next time perhaps use someone more intimately familiar with the ship.

2 Arleigh Burke Destroyers. But it does not matter. USS Texas BB-35 Had 14 Inch Guns. Missouri not Missoura, but to answer the question then bring back the Iowas to fight the Kaigu in a Pacific Rim Rising story how these beasts are controlled until Jaegers are built?

First buy back all the steel mills sold overseas. Then go back and learn how to make and machine BIG STEEL!

Wrong. It’s mainly due to how the ship is constructed. During the welding process, the weld metal and the adjacent base metal will expand and contract throughout the heating and cooling cycle. During these cycles, it's inevitable that some distortion will occur due to the movement of the metal. Why else do older ships with rivets have no oil canning???

Largest charge I've fired from a gun was 45.4 grains of Hodgdon H335. 150gn. FMJBT handload for my Korean War era Garand. Unless the '70s manufacture M2 Ball I shot to get the cases for my handloads had a larger charge, but I have no way of knowing that. There's 7,000 grains to a pound, for those who don't know.

Marine navigation was a much more interesting and challenging task before GPS. Still good to have dead reckoning and triangulation off landmarks or lights skills, as backup and situational awareness.

You can't!! The tools don't exist anymore!! You would have to build it for scratch!!

No infrastructure, eh? Hey, maybe the Chinese can do it for us. I am so sick of the can't do mentality.

I was a Marine in Viet Nam,1967/1968, and was told that the New Jersey fired over my head. I remember vivid greenish flashes out at sea, then quiet rustling sounds overhead, then the earth trembling slightly. I was about seven or eight miles north of DaNang RVN. I loved it!

I am starting to see that the ideas I have had were not the first, perhaps. Another video elsewhere said someone thought of the concept for VLS came out during the 80s. Videos that have been coming out were getting close to stepping on my ideas, I saw your videos and that the NJ was in dry dock, and I started trying to contact you, Ryan, as well as others in Raytheon and so forth. Oh, well. I suppose I can be more blunt on the Grim Reapers channel about what needs to be done as a modification. Maybe China will build it and smash US. Small minds. Maybe we deserve it.

Is the smoke toxicity

Build new. A lot cheaper operating costs. And 80 year old metal is more brittle than new metal.

1:24 man that is weird, that looks like a low poly texture from half life 2, like are you sure the camera's not screwed up, and my guess would be tugs or maybe she rubbed as she was going through the panama canal, as you said these ships were only a few inches off of those corners

As for the prop. Possibly wire rope from tugging and towing? Slacked underneath then was pulled back to tension?

Ingenius design from over 80 years ago. I didn't know about the "docking keels". It is amazing the Iowas could reach speeds of about 36 mph.

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You don't want to say yes, or people won't let you into the country with them, and you don't want protesters to cause issues. You don't want to deny as it is a threat for Soviets and Chinese and Koreans to keep em in line, the whole point of nukes. The only way to know is do a radiological scan, which may not even show that far from when it may or may not have carried them. But it may! Be interesting to know! Would take some expensive equipment to figure it out, and few would have access even to it. It may not even be portable (probably is some that can).

The Marine that donated deserves a life's free pass for that...

Uniforms!

It might be a good idea to get someone that has some idea WTF he is talking about to do this video

I am wondering if New Jersey has any of the steering mechanisms still working, like Texas has a mechanical steering room way in the back, or are the rudders rusted in place? If it does, do you ever move the rudders just to keep them movable? The Texas manual stern gear way in the back is all rusted up unusable.

Old timey artillery? They still use lanyards on the newest guns 😂 I’m out

Not to be confused with Richard Kiel, Jaws, he was almost as big...

Rounds hole is a core sample or to cut out a section needing replaced, which I doubt it did. They use a plug and slowly weld it in to put back. It may also be to add equipment after it was made. Check your blueprints (wink).

I think that better communication between all parties is what is needed. Make options for both sizes and adjust both. NEVER ASSUME!!!!

I've got quite a soft spot for seeing the phone equipment restored and interpreted. My dad was a phone man for 45 years, much of that time in Longview, WA. Some of his work involved connecting and disconnecting the phone systems for the ships at the port. He was there in 1990 when New Jersey visited Longview and took me to see it while it was open to visitors. I was only 9 years old, but I already had Antony Preston's book on battleships and was able to get it signed by a few of the crew.

I would love to see a movie on the Battle of the Komandorski Islands. It is not a battleship fight, but US Cruisers Salt Lake City and Richmond fight off a superior force in the longest navel gunfight without air cover in WWII. I had a co-worker that was on the USS Coglan (DD-606) as one of the four destroyers there. His version of the battle was interesting. ---Stan=--

Did she have pushbutton or rotary dial payphones? I recently had to teach a 30 year old how to operate a dial phone.

Stay away from the doubler plate they cause more problems then help

This report doesn't tell you if all of these barrel displays are open to the Public. Also, how many Lands and grooves are in each 16" 50 Caliber barrel, what is the rate of twist, and does the ogive or a band engage the lands? I liked the clear and concise presentation in this video better than Ryan's unprepared stammering.

Get some drone footage around the ship before it comes out!

Check out Drachinifel's video on the SMS Seydlitz at Jutland for damage breakdowns on the MANY large caliber hits the Seydlitz took, barely surviving.

Ryan you are physically treating that vintage ww2 sailor uniform very badly...

I worked on and rode her as an electrician for Long Beach Naval Shipyard. I helped install tank level indicators in most of the tanks and the peak tank did not have that dimple when we were in there. I'm wondering if it occurred during the high speed run where we got up to 35 knots? Checking for variations in thickness in and around that area may give you clues.

In the early 1970's I served in the engineering department of a light cruiser, first commissioned in 1944. I know what a horror story that engineering plant was after 30 years. All I can say to people who are talking about bringing back 80 year old engineering plants is, ARE YOU CRAZY! There is nobody in the Navy today who understands a thing about those fuel systems, boilers, engines or almost all of the rest of the systems aboard those ships.

I have a better idea, just give it updated alloys in its armor, dont plan a new hull, no new frame, nothing, just replace the armor plates above and below the water line and give it updated ranging, a new set of electrilonic equipment, power plant and a radar system and you are done, nothing else needs to be done because it would inflate the cost even higher.

you should drop establish titles. they are a scam

I bet you when you ask who wants to go on a strip trip you get lots of volunteers.

White reflects light better, I guess you could say it absorbs less as well, but absorbs better, kinda confusing

Interesting that USS England had so much success with an English (British) WWII development.

Too bad i didn't think of that a few years ago when i found a couple of 80's Los Angeles phone books in my kitchen. I would have been glad to donate them to a museum ship.

Nuclear isn't as functional tough as conventional.

Wait so he was originally on Ranger but is on New Jersey now? Upgrades!

Interesting. I assume the phone only be usable in port? Any port? And would they only carry the phone book for the home port? That speaks to a topic - perhaps you've covered before: what are the events/activities/constraints the crew would experience when visiting a foreign port?

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If no video proof going through 14" barrel ... I seriously doubt that happened ... you barely made it out of the 16" with editing magic help.

Is the blade damage line up with the bilge keel damage?

The stretch mark pitting and dent definitely a kraken attack

Keep up the Excellent work Sir!