I'd imagine there has to be a surreal or dreamlike feeling to walk through a ship that is 80%(?) identical to your own while occasionally stepping into rooms that are utterly different than what you're accustomed to.

Glad to hear we are back to referring to Under Siege as a documentary.

One can't understate the importance of doughnuts as a morale booster. In my corporate office experience whenever there was leftover food from lunch meetings or team events the doughnuts ALWAYS got eaten quicker than leftover veggie/cheese plates.

New Jersey: Top of the damage control foodchain, not a leak or gap to be seen. Missouri: "Here's an entire room we make things with intentional holes in them".

" Hi I'm Ryan Szimanski of the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial. Today we are standing on the combat bridge of Space Battleship Yamato. Behind me are the firing controls for the wave motion gun". Joking aside love the comparisons between the sisters and awesome video, take care guys!

It’s an absolute pleasure seeing Ryan flourish and have so much confidence and joy in-front of the camera. Well done to everyone. These videos are fab. 🎉

During reactivation I did several jobs in the Supply office (second deck, across from the starboard serving line). Got to know the Supply Officer well and he was a really nice guy. Afterwards, every time he spotted me walking through the mess decks, he'd ask if I were busy. If I had time for a break, he'd call a Mess attendant and have him get two donuts and a pot of coffee and we'd shoot the breeze for a few minutes. As far as I know, New Jersey didn't lack for donuts then.

Great videos as usual Ryan, but can you fix that audio crackling?

I could totally see Tommy Lee Jones' Under Siege character stealing a battleship for it's donut shop.

"In Under Seige, the Documentary" I LOVE IT!

Audio is messed up in this video.

“… Under Siege Documentatary” 😂

yeah I work there and if I had a dollar for every time someone took a bite out of the prop muffin I would have 2 dollars, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

It is a crime that all 4 Iowa's were not out fitted with a doughnut shop! The humble doughnut is such a moral booster. When I operate early morning flights, I always grab a box for my flight crew. It is amazing how a doughnut can brighten up their morning.

The whole ship smells like ship. Are you sure that's really what you said it smells like Ryan? I also love that you're continuing to refer to Under Siege as a documentary. It's on up there with other documentaries like Independence Day and Red Dawn.

I really like the videos on the slight differences of what are supposed to be identical ships!

During the 1989 Pacex the USS New Jersey and USS Missouri operated together and there is a video (Battleships : United States Military Weaponry Footage) of them both in a battle line firing their guns. The New Jersey is in the lead but Missouri is putting out more especially 5" rounds.

I can see the value in having a donut shop: Captain: One week of unlimited donut supply to the turret that removes the enemy vessel from my view. (Guns Blazing)

Accurately describing Under Siege as a documentary is a testament to your true understanding of naval history.

It is amazing how much more interior light is available on the Iowa class versus the two earlier classes of battleship. They almost look cheerful by comparison

Given the prior example of MoNet, I'm disappointed there wasn't a sign somewhere identifying that compartment as the MoNut Shop. Speaking of food and stuff on board, and I recognize that this is a terrible segue, but a suggestion for a video topic occurred to me earlier: how pest control gets done on the battleship, both as a museum and when she was in service. What with having her parked on the riverfront in a built-up area, I would think you'd be waging a constant battle to repel boarders.

Oh so that's Big Mo's secret weapon. Doughnuts, a vital tactical edge 😁👍

We saw some of these spaces when we visited Missouri last month. Thanks for showing the differences Ryan. One of Missouri's bakeries and machine shops had recordings of the crew working.

Is anyone else getting a bunch of static on this video on the previous video?

A testament to how ships of the the same class (obsessively with identical layouts) are modified individually over time. I remember visiting other fleet tugs when I served on the USS Cocopa (ATF-101) and being amazed when I encountered blocked passageways, repurposed compartments and different equipment. I never served on a ship with a separate bakery, let alone a doughnut shop. On my ships, the galley was turned into the bakery at night for bread, pastries, cakes, pies and, yes, doughnuts.

do not underestimate the value of the donut shop!!!

Hey Ryan, I hope you're teaching the Missouri's crew about how to do a KZfaq channel.

That brings back both great and awful memories of USS Enterprise. The bakery was in the aft galley, just forward of Reactor Division's main berthing space. Early in the morning everything on the 2nd deck back aft smelled like freshly baked bread. Then they put all the bread and buns in what we called the 'Bread Hardening' compartment. The sliced bread wasn't too bad, but the hamburger and hotdog buns you'd get at lunch and dinner were hard as rocks. Taking a bite of hot dog held the very real threat of cut gums and broken teeth. I don't know how many times I walked past the bakery on the way to a 0400 watch and was treated to the fantastic smell of fresh bread. That little touch of home would stick with you through the morning, then you would finish up in the plant and head to lunch, only to be bitterly disappointed when you got to the galley and heard the clank of a bun dropping onto your tray.

A number of the smaller FF size ships I've served on had their own donut making machines and made really good donuts. The first time I had a Krispy Kream donut I swore it tasted just like the ones from aboard ship.

*”SMELLS LIKE **_SHIP”_* 🤣

I was able to walk on the Deck of USS Missouri in the late 70's when she was in mothballs at Bremerton Navy Yard. I remember being disappointed that so little of the ship was open to visitors. Still very cool to see where the Japanese signed the surrender documents.

You know Under Siege was filmed on the Alabama. The North Korean sun in the movie was the Submarine Drum. It’s good to see the differences and also to know Alabama is getting some much needed deck work.

One of my best memories of my service on Missouri, is sending the messenger of the watch to the doughnut shop the last hour of the midwatch (midnight-4 a.m.) to bring back hot doughnuts for the watchstanders on the quarterdeck or bridge.

This made my evening. And I know have a preference on one ship vs the other based entirely off of doughnuts

Ryan, bringing the night baker a soda at 0300 was a good way to get first dibs on the cinnamon rolls. I was roving security most watches.

Facinating video of the numerous differences between the two sisters. Glad to see you delineating these differences.

I served on the Mo from 85 to 88 and there was NO donut shop during my time aboard. I messcranked in the bakery in early 86. That space where the donut shop is now was the "pot shack" in my day. The pot shack was where some poor guy would scrub all the pots and pans.

This Series is Genius !!!

another great video from the battleship. thanks

Donuts on the Mo? Now I have a reason to book a flight to Hawaii!

The Belshaw, Roband (etc) donut robots are a things of extreme beauty.

Before Ryan started his channel, “Under Siege” was actually the best battleship documentary.

So Wise , Thank You

Was there differences besides altercations after construction? I know Wisconsin and Missouri have thicker armor forward and Iowa was fitted as a flag ship. Other than those things, was anything originally different?

When the ship I was serving on was inport at Norfolk, each morning we had Krispy-Kream donuts delivered, or fat pills as we called them in the Wardroom.

"underseige the documentary" ahaha epic

Got to go on USS Missouri last summer. Truly an awesome experience. When I went to Iowa this summer I was shocked at the difference in how much has been put into Missouri compared to Iowa. Hope Iowa gets there one day! Need to visit the New Jersey and Wisconsin to say I’ve been on all 4 😂

I love that they have a donut shop. New Jersey you missed out, that was why Missouri was the better ship😂😆😂 JUST KIDDING Ryan. We all know that the jersey is the best battleship the US Navy ever commissioned. Ok I think he will let me come back abourd...

Wisconsin also has a donut shop although you can't smell it anymore.

"Donut forsake me, Missouri!"

I absolutely love the lady at 3:35 hard at work holding that bulkhead up. I don't know what Missouri would do if it weren't for guests doing selfless stuff like that.

Thank you again another great episode. But I have to admit you're just making me more anxious to go see USS Missouri in a couple weeks thank you again.

I was there on Missouri last week! Ryan, New Jersey is on my visit list too!

So generally speaking, higher morale for Missouri. Also they have a almost-video-game-power-up gimmick, where the crew can have a short burst of surger rush. But if the battle drags on for too long it'll have a negative impact on the crew's ability to function because of the crash. Isn't that interesting.

love these videos

What does a ship smell like? SH**, SH**, metal plates or BREAD. 🤣

The donut shop -- favorite stop on the tour for vacationing law enforcement!

First of all, this looks like one of the biggest displays of Selectrics outside of an IBM museum. Second, It would be interesting to know when different spaces were repurposed on each vessel and why and how decisions were made to use the same original spaces for different purposes. .

That was the best video ever. Donuts rule!

If possilbe, the people that run the Missouri should full rsotore the donut kitchen so they can make and sell donuts from there. Imnagine going on a tour of the Missouri and being able to get fresh donuts, I think that would be awesome. I got to visit the Missourie during a friends and family day once and my buddy, who had invited mne, and he didn't show me the donut shop. I'm now really disappointed that he never showed me the dinut shop back then. But I do remember getting to see her boilers because that's was where my friend worked.

😂 "Under Siege the documentary" 😂

We called them "fat pills"

"Stevan Seagal" was the cook of this ship.🧑‍🍳

That bakery looks like a working bakery, best way to exhibit authenticity is with authentic use. A museum ship could be a serious asset to the community by opening its working spaces to working people: open small galleys as commissary kitchens, bring the bakery to life with delicious smells, show up in local grocery stores, offer classes. A battleship has spaces for a city's worth of amenities, how many could come alive? Convert a space on Battleship New Jersey to offer Missouri Cure Doughnuts... (because the proper pronunciation of the state is Misery)

USS Missouri understands me, I absolutely would fight for either raspberry filled or Bavarian cream filled chocolate frosted donuts. 😁 And as it happens I currently live in the state of Missouri.

Great video.

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I would hesitate before disagreeing with Ryan, but I don't agree with his statement that the whole ship smells like ship. I visited New Jersey in early June and I swear that the bakery smelled like bread. Maybe it was some psychological trick, but it was very distinct. The rest of the ship does indeed smell like ship. I've been touring and visiting Navy ships for over 40 years and I think they pretty much all smell alike, both active and museum. The one exception was a boomer that I visited that had just returned from deterrent patrol a few hours earlier. It had a serious funk. That visit was in 1977 and the memory hasn't faded.

Did he say, "all of New Jersey smells like ship", as contrasted with a bakery? Is it like a salt water smell, a mixture of grease and sweat, or a smell like metal? The only museum ship I was on smelled like linoleum because they had to rip the old asbestos out.

So the first thing I watched on my big screen TV was a documentary.

I wonder if the donut shop was manned during the gulf war

Mmmm! Donuts!!! ✌🐸

Used to volunteer and help maintain the mighty Mo while I was stationed on Pearl. They don't make them like they used to.

Agree. Donuts and coffee make me a fierce fighting machine.

"Motivational techniques: like donuts, and the possibility of more donuts to come!' - H.J. Simpson

Ryan, on New Jersey the laundry definitely smells like fresh linen. Is that from when it was in service or is that “Disney world magic”?

The donut shop was INTRO Was funny

and if the donut maker messes up the Missouri has an angry crew. ;)

Ya'll should think about getting an overhead microphone. That may help with some of the audio issues

Question have you ever ventured into the outboard ballast tanks? Just watched a video by the USS Iowa group of them going into one of the tanks. Very awesome & interesting going into a 40' void that's never visited!

Time to make the doNuts

Wow the audio somewhat sucked in this one. Lot of static coming through the mic.

New Jersey smells like ship - Ryan Szimanski, 2022

Wisconsin also has a donut shop!

Same Ryan, when our CHT system fowled up the whole ship smelled bad... Oh, sorry.

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have to wonder if the Royal Navy crew aboard the HMS Gloucester had remembered what happened to their sistership Sheffield 6 years earlier and thought we're not letting there be another Sheffield Had to fix an error

Well, we now know which ship Homer Simpson would want to serve on. Mmmmmmm...... donuts

“So here-“ *INHALES MICROPHONE* “-Mardet office….” That’s just the beginning lads, he inhaled the microphone so many times, that I lost count.

Never get between a Pole from Jersey and his doughnuts...

Wonder if those 386 compaqs still work?

Higher morale and a larger waist ....

On the USS Missouri, Where is the Beef? On the USS New Jersey, We have the Beef!

What was the MARDET Berthing in Missouri compared to New Jersey?

Was there ever an ice cream making 'room' on New Jersey in WW2?

Did y'all ever find those CWIS components? If not, Enterprise may still have hers(?)

DONUTS!!!!!

where did the Marines bunk on USS Missouri

Donut shop?! I thought it was USS Missouri, not HMCS Missouri! 😜

But they didn’t tint the walls Nicotine Yellow in that 80s office? Good thing they didn’t use Smell-o-Visit there.