Can't have shit in Philly

I was thinking it would be something if they drained the water and someone stole the props. Edit - Pst.. Bud. I have about 200 tons of propeller bronze. Are you interested?

​@robertthomas5906 manganese bronze is some seriously expensive stuff... just sayin...

@@krockpotbroccoli65Gonna be tough explaining where you got the props from.

You got a real belly laugh from me on this comment

Texas did a whole lot of documenting their project.

Battleship Texas and her crew would like to have some words with you…..there is *extensive* videography and drone camera footage of her work in the dry dock.

@@cruisinguy6024id also argue that tho new jersey is doing a lot to document her dry dock, texas has documented way more of their process. Tho the long time spent could also factor in

@@welcometowherever7475 I think Ryan has discussed a lot more of the mechanics / process of dry docking compared to the Texas at this point - whereas the Texas has extensively discussed their hull work. It’s not a fair comparison though because the work required to replace all the rotted hull on the Texas is *extensive* and her time in the yard is testament to that. I do which Ryan would talk more about all the work being done but I assume those videos will be forthcoming as the projects are on going. I greatly appreciate the detailed content about docking plans, dry docking preparations, and so on.

I would expect more from the USS Texas team as they wrap things up. They certainly did a lot of documentation of the work which they just haven't had the opportunity to organize, edit and polish, yet.

Could have said spanking the old girl a few feet.

Good one for April fools. I got a laugh out of it.

Found the loser.

I also wanna bump New Jersey's aft, iykwim 😏

​@@Look_What_You_Did Silence, peasant.

Agree !

Totally agree my dear friend by the way A nations gratitude is owed to you thank you

Definitely once-in-a-career!

almost...😄

USS Missouri is not an "it", USS Missouri is a "she". Ships, boats and aircraft are called "she" and "her" because they share certain characteristics with women. They are beautiful, lovable, unpredictable, and always, very very expensive.

did they have to pay for parking, or did they have a parking permit. Would have been a pain, if they had to wheelclamp it :)

@@johnjones5354 Well, Ships with male names are called 'he' and since states are objects without a gender, I'd say 'it' should be acceptable in this case.

@@HauntedXXXPancake Negative. Ships in the US navy are referred to "She", regardless if a vessel is named after a male, state, city, historic battle, etc.

I hope you took pictures.

We’ve all been chipping in and watching the videos the past couple of years.

Love the USS Texas but can definitely see some major differences here absolutely.

​@@georgedoolittle9015 steel is much better than texas's

@@georgedoolittle9015 well to be fair uss TX has another world war under her belt and 3+more decades of wear n tear vs the Iowa's. 👍🏻

Indeed; they did a wonderful job building the ship, too.

yes, better steel, much younger ship, and she had some decent intervals in her service life where she was well preserved for her time in decom.@@georgedoolittle9015

@wysoft: I am Philadelphia born and raised and have crossed all the Delaware river bridges more times than I could say. Toured New Jersey with my father (a WW II Army Combat Engineer who served in New Guinea and the Philippines) about eighteen years ago before he passed in 2007. He was especially impressed with seeing the ship up close, including Admiral Halsey's cabin as he well remembered when the New Jersey was in action in the Pacific. I very much agree with your sentiments about the sadness of seeing these once mighty facilities in disrepair. Sad to say, you could probably see such yards in China very much alive and very much in production today. I remember the incredible, gigantic steel works in Bethlehem, now razed to the ground, and the immense Buick manufacturing complex in Flint, MI, now also vanished. Phoenix Steel in Claymont, DE and Phoenixville, PA, and Lukens in Coatesville and the Fairless works of U S Steel. Now all gone or foreign-owned. Our country's vacant-minded leadership (of both parties and most corporations) has adopted a very short-sighted and foolish mentality that we are now somehow a more "advanced" economy by being "post-industrial" and outsourcing the bulk of our manufacturing. Yeah, great idea, until your "suppliers" decide that they want to hold you hostage to their own national interest and you realize that you don't have the capacity to defend yourself any more. Our youth have been brought up to believe that any job that does not require a college degree or in which you have to get your hands dirty is somehow "beneath them" and have been conned into going into crippling amounts of debt to get worthless degrees for which there are no well-paying jobs available. Meanwhile trade jobs and industrial jobs go begging, and so manufacturers go overseas where they can find a workforce willing to work for what they can afford to pay and remain competitive. (Speaking of Buick, today, 80% of all Buicks sold are sold in China. EIGHTY percent...and climbing How much do you think GM cares about the American market anymore or building cars here? I guarantee you, not as much as they once did.) Does anyone seriously believe that the United States of today could mount an industrial effort on anything like the scale of World War II? Sadly, that ship has sailed. (pun intended.)

@therealniksongs I have been to several shipyards in China and while for sure they are industrious I wouldn't say anything about them was inspiring. They're an odd mix of modern production technology with 19th century approach to safety and a total disregard for workers' well being - even our yards back then weren't like that, but then again, that's why they outproduce us at every turn. The rest of what you say is spot on

@@wysoft I did not mean to hold them up as a model, and I certainly take you at your word as having seen them first hand. My intention was only to point out that they are busy as hell building ships. What are WE doing?

@@therealniksongs You have precisely outlined the position of the West today. Living as I do 200 km from the Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian borders, this does not make one feel comfortable. The short sightedness of capitalists is nothing short of suicidal and utterly criminal.

@@therealniksongsNot a chance we could spool up that capability. Read the book called Freedoms Forge and it outlines (easy to read btw) how FDR picked Bill Knudsen to spearhead our war time build up. WW1 method was a disaster, Bill knew what needed to be done, let business do what they do best and decide what each of them could build on their own then get out of the way.

Yeah, she looks OK considering how long it's been since she was docked before

I remember Captain Fink. He succeeded Captain Gildea as shipyard commander. Capt Janov succeeded your dad.

Great story

Philly is not difficult to live in. You just gotta embrace it and then you'll love it.

So you where one of the last "Spark's" to send messages from the Battle Wagon .

ahh yes. as acabinet maker we would send our new uns for ..glass hammers,sky hooks and ,my favourite ." go ask old ronnie for a long stand".. haa.. many yrs ago. probably end up sacked and sued nowadays

I'm 71 now, & remember standing my very first watch aboard a warship as an extremely keen 13 year old cadet man o'wars man seadog. I was placed on anchor watch, the ship was tied up at its pier, & the anchor that needed watching was chained down hard to the foredeck.

What, no relative bearing grease or sound powered phone batteries?

Or a bucket of steam​@@johnjones5354

don't forget 6 feet of chow line

I know right? Incredibly clean. There's no visible bump, no outstanding rust patches... she's well taken care of.

Yeah, so much better than Texas

It looks good but in reality it is quite deteriorating. I work in that yard.

I imagine if she was in salt water her hull would look quite a bit different

@@cruisinguy6024 HMCS Haida (Canada's prime museum warship) is also in fresh water, but needed her underbelly replaced a few years ago anyway. And to do that, the federal Minister of Heritage held her to ransom, the exchange being that she would be moved to the Minister's hometown (Hamilton) !

Because she's been in fresh water not sea water

@@drunksquirrel2051 Yeah, but it's in NJ/NY waste water! Far more corrosive than salt water.

It's important to keep the mud looking youthful.

Yes, depending on how much the mass and weight distribution have changed due to alterations.

@@pdmacguire a tiny %age. Did you not listen?

@@pdmacguireThe NJ is about 10,000 tons less than it was when she was built and in the same dry dock. Shalom

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Maybe it'll be worse with a closeup.

@@robertthomas5906 That's because she's been sitting in (for the most part) fresh water rather than salt water. Stuff still grows in it but not as quickly as in sea water.

There are videos here on youtube showing bottom cleaning of ships and boats using power washers. It’s amazingly effective.

@@markam306there’s a lot of modern tools to simplify and lower the cost of hull cleaning, but I don’t think Ryan has ever mentioned cleaning the hull so my suspicion is they haven’t done so.

@@cruisinguy6024 They would have pressure washed her to remove organic growth and slime, but old paint and rust needs mechanical removal.

She was built during a war we didn’t ask for and did not start. She looks like freedom to me.

I got to our the drydock in Japan when USS Midway (CV-41) was there 1973-4-5, and it was the weirdest damn feeling, even thinking it was possible for it to crash down and spread me around like butter. Dark as hell -- 120 foot beam, I think, 880 foot waterline length, and I don't remember having to bend over underneath it, but it was very strange. I too urge anyone who can to take the tour. You will never forget it.

@@grizwoldphantasia5005I love boats and ships but I have a thing about being under them / next to them in the water. I seriously can’t imagine being UNDER one in dry dock, but I suppose the silver lining is in case of catastrophic failure you wouldn’t feel a thing. Although just my luck I’d be on the edge of the collapse zone and die a horrifying slow death.

lordy!@@grizwoldphantasia5005

Any shipyard workers care to comment? Is this a real concern? Do ships often (or ever) fall off the blocks and squish people?

@@grizwoldphantasia5005 Less like butter and more like a dump truck hitting a ketchup packet on the highway. Should be no more terrifying than entering any 20 story building, just less carpet.

Hey me too!

I'm coming back to this to ask you in a week how it was Sir.... What an experience 🇺🇸

@@BCaldwell It was amazing to see it out of the water and be able to touch it. To me, standing on the top of the ground looking at the ship, it seemed smaller than I expected. Once down at the bottom, it was very large. Great time.

I’m sure either Ryan or some channel viewers know exactly which ship that was in 1998. I don’t think it was the Wisconsin, I just looked and she was in dry dock in Mississippi for her recommissioning

I mean it'd be cool of they returned except they're pretty useless.

@@admiralmallard7500 a battleship with modern technology? Might be useless, but idk.

Arsenal ships are a concept, but they're also extremely expensive and a huge blow if lost

@@admiralmallard7500 true

She missing lots of items and is gotten a weakened frame somewhere if I remember. I guess the Texas is even worse, a hull with tons of rust inside. And a paper thin hull.

$$$$$$$

I guess the world was divided into degrees, minutes and seconds so long ago thats its stuck hard. Even in NZ where we've been metric since the 60s, as soon as we sail it's all about nautical miles, cables, degrees and every other imperial measurement. It baffles the land lubber thats for sure!

Yes, there's a difference between US and Imperial units usage. As for nautical miles and knots, those are universal, based on angular arcs measured in degrees, minutes and seconds, which have been used by almost everybody since the Babylonians invented degrees. A nautical mile is the length of the arc subtending one minute of latitude on the Earth's surface, and a knot is the speed of one nautical mile per hour. Thus the distance scale on a marine chart is simply the latitude scale up the sides of the chart. The natural mathematical unit of arc measure, however, is the radian, with a full rotation of 360 degrees corresponding to 2 * PI radians.

Aviation is another profession that have standardized on specific measurements: distance in nautical miles, speed in knots, altitude in thousands of feet, and fasteners in standard SAE sizes. Fuel is measured in weight, which is in pounds mass in the USA. The last time I heard a barometer reading called it was in inches of mercury, but I’m unsure how widely this is used.

Looks like all of it is mud.. hard to tell.. like the ship was dragged in mud

Keep in mind she’s been sitting in fresh water this entire time since her last dry docking.

Do you work at EB in Groton, CT or Newport News VA? Or perhaps on the west coast? I worked at EB Groton in the early 1970's building ballast tanks for the subs in the shipbuilder trade.

@themister3865 Nah, retired submariner with more than my share of dockings. I did a double take when he said they were going to move the ship. The Navy just gets the missed spots under the blocks in the next docking. Did time in Chasn, Groton, Norfolk and Puget Sound.

Thank you for your service, sir!@@williamorton7600

@@williamorton7600he’s discussed before how the navy will just do the next block plan next dry dock but seeing how they aren’t docking it as often as the Navy did they’re doing the whole hull now while they’re at it so they can wait another 30 years or so before returning. It’s cheaper and more efficient for a museum to get it all done at once.