USS North Carolina- Exploring The Showboat!

[@Kwaj]

As a proud and native North Carolinian, I'm honored by your visit to our state and our battleship. Happy New Year, SLM.

[@FoStealth]

She's a sight to see isn't she?

[@LordEvan5]

Oddly plastic food is a high point of any museum ship

[@beaugator]

Thanks for the tour! Being disabled, I can't get around to see the ship so, this is much appreciated!

[@mudman619]

hey, hey! Welcome to NC! The North Carolina is a beauty. First thing I noticed once inside is how tight the space is - I'm 6'2" - I must've banged my head about a dozen times in there, lol. I asked one of the men working on her deck what the Navy would've done with a guy my size on a ship - he said they'd have sent me to the Army, lol.

[@FoStealth]

Fellow North Carolinian here. She really is beautiful isn't she? I always tear up when I visit because it's history and I am awed at the effort we made to buy her and get her to where she sits

[@Bellthorian]

Everyone's clothes had their name and serial number stenciled inside them, so theft wasn't really a thing.

[@mikedignum1868]

This is the only way I'm going to see these ships as I live in the UK. Thank You SL.

[@chrish8725]

My parents remember donating dimes as schoolchildren to help fund saving the ship and I have a paperback book about the ship's history and a postcard my grandfather purchased when they visited in 1962, I was glad I found those and saved them from being thrown away when cleaning out their house years ago. Sea Lord with as much as you like fiddling with knobs and buttons I'm surprised you didn't mount one of the Bofors or man a 20 mm, I had great fun as kid traversing and elevating the guns pretending to shoot down Zeros. There is also an eyepiece you can look through in turret 3 for the range finder and see those guns are aimed at an apartment across the river... I've always wondered if whoever lived there has any idea how many people have pretended to shell their living room LOL.

[@Bellthorian]

LOL Dude like me you not fat, you are in great shape....round. When I was on the Iowa I was 6 feet tall and 150 pounds, there are a LOT of spaces I could get to that I can't today because I am round!

[@Iamdarthplague]

Great video Mount. I went to NC in 2021. Good times.

[@davidrobinson4553]

Guns, Muscle Cars and Warships, I'm from England Sea Lord this is my Sunday fix, More Please 👍🇬🇧🍻

[@peterhineinlegen4672]

No matter how uncomfortable the racks in berthing look, you will sleep like a baby when you are exhausted and the ship rocks you to sleep.

[@nadiatatako260]

I live in Wilmington. Wished I knew you were coming! Having served in the Navy I could have shared some stories. Thanks for visiting come back soon!

[@SnafuBob]

Visited North Carolina in the mid-90's. Loved the tour then and presentation now. Plenty of other museum ships I'd like to tour as well. I plan on taking my son to see NC this year or next since it's the closest to our location. Happy New Year.

[@gleamingcolt]

this was the first museum ship i ever saw, and it was worth it

[@z6a99c]

My grandfather served on her, and my dad served on the USS Missouri

[@obinator9065]

I only ever got to go on a Lütjens class destroyer (they were built in the US; Charles F. Adams) and these look so much bigger in real life. Cannot imagine how it is with battleships!

[@danielsherrill7085]

Welcome to NC! She's such a beauty, and a great ship.

[@rjmarch]

I'm pretty sure NJ will let you fire one of those five inch guns...for a small fee of course.

[@venomous2die4]

As a person who has resided in down east NC, This ship is beautiful. It's astounding how big they are once you're on one.

[@ryanmaloney3]

Glad you got to come to NC and visit the Showboat herself!! While you haven't said where else you went, I sure hope it was to Patriots Point in Charleston, SC since you were already that close!! The Yorktown and Laffey are two of my personal favorites!! Love your vids, keep up the good work, from one teacher to another!!

[@ziggythewookie3107]

Got to see the Buffalo naval park sometime Sealord. They have a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine to tour. Thanks for showing what I would do by trying to spin every knob you could.

[@tdbraun6837]

Speaking of museum ships in weird places, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, lies the USS Batfish submarine, placed on land near the Arkansas River. During a big flood a few years ago it almost floated away...

[@MrFishstxx]

Im so happy you visited this ship, I live 10 minutes away from it and my daughter and I love going to visit her.

[@Bellthorian]

The reason the Range Finders were pulled out on the Alabama and Iowa's in turret one is that with a combat load the ships sat to low on the waterline and the range the rangefinder could be used was very reduced compared to the rangefinders in turret two and three.

[@Zero-oh8vm]

What amazes me is the amount of engineering that went into those ships; looks like every single piece must have been separately calculated. Monkish amount of work.

[@DawnOfDoom12]

Goosebumps; I’m a total naval-history buff, so I am extremely jealous of your experience yet humbled and thankful to you for sharing this so I could live vicariously through you! Happy new year, SLM!

[@yammoSki123]

Thanks for showing us Sea Lord, being from New Zealand and probably never going to see this in person I appreciate the video. Cant wait for the next one

[@adamsears1403]

Well if I remember correctly, the North Carolina can never be dry docked again. They built a bridge that's to low for it to go under after she was set up as a museum ship. So unlike the Texas or any of the Iowa class ships, This ship will rust in place until it can't be repaired anymore. When that happens you'll have 2 options. Scrap it in place or come up with some engineering feet to fix it that'll cost a lot of money

[@kano4282]

Love your decision!!!! Looking forward to this content. 🥰

[@csoehlig]

I've been twice to see the NC. Beautiful boat and museum.

[@josiahricafrente585]

I remember visiting her for the first and so far only time, and I got to talking with some of the docents and workers there. They all said she was haunted, backing this assertion up with personal stories. One lady spoke of working the late shifts towards the end of the day, when not a lot of people around, when she started hearing a lot of unexplainable noises. Chilling stuff.

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

Lady Mountbatten cameo

[@Bellthorian]

At the 4:36 mark, inside the turret, you can see the rammer housing behind the little girl. It is painted red and looks like a spine on top of that red box.

[@Joey_Liu]

Hell ya! Glad to see you enjoy your life and explore the NC! Hopefully I’ll get to see my favourite bb in the future.

[@kingmobius9379]

I'm glad you're enjoying these museum's that are still here and if you haven't visited it yet I really suggest visiting the Pensacola naval air museum it really is a day's worth of exploring no ship's to walk into but a lot of historical information and aircraft even a few rarely seen as well as last of their own in existence

[@cnknguyen]

when I was aboard the Alabama last summer, I was amazed by the scale of the boat. Just amazingly awesome, its also terrifying to think about being inside a huge building that can literally be blasted out of the water, while you're on board just doing your thing. Engineering was a lot more spacious than I thought it would be. Also the rangekeeping equipment is an analog masterpiece.

[@Norbrookc]

One of the things I saw that really drove home the scale of these ships was a series Battleship New Jersey and Battleship Texas did on the repairs Texas was undergoing in dry dock. You see the two curators standing under this HUGE ship looming over them, and then it struck me: Texas is actually the smallest of the museum battleships.

[@jacobtent97]

I'm jealous you got to visit the bridge, the Wisconsin where I live has the bridge locked off for regulars like me sadly. Great video!

[@Bellthorian]

My wife and I visited here in August and it was hilarious because on the tour, all the questions the Docent could not answer from the crowd, I answered for them. Later he pulled me aside and told me I should apply for a job there because of the knowledge I have on battleships.

[@feloniousteabagger]

Thanks for the great tour of the North Carolina. I love these museum ship vids.

[@malguskerensky]

Very good tour of a real steel ship, having the WoWS player perspective is nice as well - Thank you! Also glad you did this instead of going crazy trying to obtain a T4 DD made t10 cruiser; just not worth while honestly.

[@BulletMagnet44]

Love the North Carolina. I've been there twice and both times I have enjoyed it so much. First BB commissioned after the attack on Pearl Harbor and she sure did kick some ass in the war!!!!

[@ianadam2303]

I loved visiting the NC. Absolutely amazing ship

[@irishwind1971]

@12:45. That joke made me want to bolt.

[@sealordmountbatten]

Aaayyyyeeee

[@laszlohodosy2490]

Thanks for the tour...was awesome 👍 Greetings from Slovakia and I whish you and your family Happy New Year!

[@mindwis3]

Amazing, i could sense the power that ship projects from that camera angle from the bridge looking forward over the guns.. wow. ty for sharing. Been to NC once, but for work and didn't have the opportunity to visit.. now i sort of have .. see you online :) ( il_Dutchie ).

[@mwells944]

Happy New Year Sea Lord ! Great video ! Zoo9

[@Bellthorian]

There is a lot more deck space on the North Carolina's than the South Dakota's, they are roughly fifty feet longer. In order to give the South Dakota's a MUCH better armor package AND still stay within the 35,000 ton limit of the Washington Naval treaty they had to shrink the size of the ship. The South Dakota's had to have a more powerful powerplant as a result in order to maintain the 28 knot top speed. 121,000 shaft horsepower for the NC's and 130,000 shaft horsepower for the South Dakota's.

[@jackcrawford6078]

"sealord for scale" LoL

[@gstormcz]

Nice vid. NC was my most played T8 ship few years ago, I had even old record of getting 70 planes shot down with her. Happy New Year.

[@andrewb3132]

Welcome to Wilmington! The NC is a great ship to see. We moved here about 2 years ago and make several trips to the ship each year.

[@firewall_ru]

Thanks for amazing New Year present! Gotta love Showboat \o/

[@mattwerling7565]

Come on down to Charleston, SC for the Yorktown, a WW@ DD and other ships at Patriot Point. Happy New Year!

[@darkroom0716]

Very cool video, I don't mind the departure from botes if its for actual botes lol. Would love to actually see one of these, in my area we only have a submarine.

[@Bellthorian]

People clown on military food all the time but the chow on the Iowa was really good.

[@thegreatid3595]

Mountbatten touring the pride of our state

[@Comandokiller1]

Great tour looking forward to seeing the others.

[@taterdawg]

So happy to see you check out a ship I've been on many times during my lifetime! Hope you picked up a BB-55 hat. It's my favorite hat in my collection! Absolutely love that they have a sea plane on the deck to check out.

[@UNSINKABLEII]

Thanks for this SeaLord!

[@lianggong2274]

Finding the anti-sub equip on the ship, so we know how to use it in game.

[@frosty3693]

It was more than 'a little rain' that week.

[@ryanracik]

From Canada thank you for the video, hope you and your wife had a great time.

[@xzarial6652]

Awesome video thanks! Took me ages to find it though! Now I need to search again for the others!

[@rocketfishx3474]

I didn't think I would enjoy this but I did. Thanks for making this. I don't know if you have access but I would have liked to see a deck walk along the full length of the ship

[@Bellthorian]

I have that exact same jacket. I am going to go out and visit the Iowa in the coming new year. I have not seen her since about five months after the accident. I would love to coordinate with you so my wife and I could meet you out there and I can give you a personal tour the the ship and talk about my experiences on April 19th, 1989 and the investigation into the accident.

[@sealordmountbatten]

Hey man! Reach out to me via the channel's email and we'll see if we can work something out!

[@suryia6706]

Great video

[@NavytroyXIV]

Feliz año desde España! These ship videos are great!

[@xXd3m0lXx]

I'm jealous you have so many museum ships in USA. There are only a few warships to visit where i live. I visited ORP Błyskawica some time ago and it's nice but i really want to see some big bad battleship :D

[@PirateCircus1]

Visited in September, great ship and well worth the trip!

[@Bellthorian]

For the five inch guns, all twenty guys are not in the turret, some are in the decks below passing shells. I can't remember if the five inch guns are a projectile and casing together or separate shell and powder.

[@davidhines7592]

i wish we in the UK had saved more ships. we do have HMS Belfast in London but we didnt even save Vanguard the last battleship because of war debts. we invented the damn things and didnt bother to save even one for a museum. i know there are some other ships dotted around the UK but apart from HMS Victory, and some civilian ships, most seem like ww1 ships. i think there is at least one DD and a cruiser or two plus some old wooden ships or replicas of them, a couple of cold war era subs. also a monitor...

[@strafe_breaker3440]

Happy New Year to you and your family SL, thank you always for the videos, as someone who may never get a chance to visit, I really appreciate educational excursions like these especially when you insert in game stuff to the real thing.

[@strafe_breaker3440]

Happy New Year to you and your Family SL, thank you for another year of vids, for someone who may not be able to visit I really appreciate these kinds of excursions, learning stuff and comparing the game to the real thing.

[@kimmikxgaming5010]

My fav T6 battleship in World of warship Legends

[@mikesavage6420]

Massachusetts has the most free areas open of any i visited - Wisconsin the least

[@robbie9723]

Sea lord came to my hometown what an honor

[@EricDKaufman]

My mother remembers giving pennies and nickels in kindergarten to help purchase her. The Show Boat!!!! Welcome to North Carolina. Be sure to get some BBQ

[@deracer69]

SLM you should come out to Chicago and visit the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry

[@terrydavis8451]

Hey thats my battleship. I love her, mainly because its the only one I can drive to.

[@tylerhornbrook8413]

you should check out the uss silversides in Michigan even though that sub is not in wow it was one of the most successful ships in ww2 credited with sinking 23 enemy vessels

[@professorq4081]

I want to see a real submarine up close.

[@wyatt2ss809]

Visited here from western NC when I was 12. Never really cared much for it at that age, now I am planning another trip out since I started playing warships and am appreciating military history now that I'm closing in on 30 lol. Glad to have you out here, any intention to head to Charleston to see CV-10?

[@nigelthompson7829]

Much better value than the Supakuma, Happy new year.

[@theiranianputin2770]

Great video. Thanks

[@RedShert63]

Great video. Are you going to be able to make it north to Norfolk on this trip? The Wiskey is all decorated for the holidays.

[@jonathanwills4726]

You just went to my local ship! Woot. Wilmington is fun. Lots of good food there. Where did you eat my man?

[@Skyline037]

Now this is awesome video!

[@charlestownshotokan5704]

This was cool. Happy New Year.

[@Bellthorian]

Fun Fact; The North Carolina design was too far along in the design phase when the escalator clause was invoked to change her armor package. Her armament got upgraded from 14 to 16 inch guns but her armor package was only designed to protect her from from Mark 8: 1,402 lb AP shells. This made her the first American Battleship ever designed that could not protect herself from the equivalent guns she was armed with. The South Dakota class WAS designed to be protected from the equivalent of a Mark 5: 2,240 lb (1,020 kg) AP shell but with the advent of the new Mark 8: 2,700 lb (1,225 kg) AP shell the South Dakota's and the Iowa class battleships did not have an armor package capable of protecting them against those shells either. So all 10 fast battleships constructed in WW2 were incapable of protecting themselves against equivalent shells that they fired.

[@chrish8725]

Who knew "Just dodge" went all the way back to the 40s?

[@Bellthorian]

@@chrish8725 LOL Or take out your opponent before he scores a hit on you. You should look up the pictures of the battle damage the South Dakota took in the gun battle with the Kirishima. She was hit with MULTIPLE 14 inch shells at point blank rage as well at a ton of secondary hits. The South Dakota lost power and was dead in the water, if the Washing wasn't there to dishrag the Kirishima, South Dakota would have been in serious trouble.

[@Bellthorian]

Did you see Charlie the Alligator when you were there? He has been there since at least the seventies. He has a girlfriend now and when we were there in August you could hear the babies chirping from the marsh.

[@CheungAdoniszu]

Those secondary batteries are bigger than my IRL room 😅

[@Bellthorian]

The average height for men back in 1940 was 5'7, so yes they were a lot smaller than men of today.

[@Shadx27]

I need to go down there again.

[@FullMetalYankee]

Great video. Happy New Year.

[@verhREQUIEM]

the introduction

[@_Thred_]

i've been on that ship TWICE irl

[@dogtaggamer1]

My hometown!

[@AdmiralRamirez7]

Hey don't stare at it might explode 😂

[@red12stone]

you didnt show the most important part of the ship which was the ice cream location!

[@johntitus2374]

Nice video

[@muhammadhuzaifaazam]

Can you visit the Salem?