#battleship New Jersey museum

[lonestarbattleship]

Battleship NEW JERSEY entering drydock no. 3 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for maintenance.

Date: March 28, 2024

Posted on the Battleship New Jersey Facebook page: link, link, link

Posted by Ryan Szimanski: link, link

[dbf-enthusiast]

First snowfall of the season.

[floridaboiler]

Happy National Siblings Day! This 1954 family portrait is from a rare occasion when all four sister Iowa-class battleships were together. From front to back is USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri and USS New Jersey. All the ships are now museums.

source - https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute

[stankhead]

ANYWAY here's my top romantic 6 date locations!!

Museum Of Natural History, NYC - butterfly conservatory... bones,,,need I say fucking more..

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NYC - marble boobies... fashion exhibits.. can be a bit crowded for a date but if you can escape to the furniture section on one of the top floors can have a very quiet romantic moment amongst some old dressers...

Smithsonian Air And Space Museum, Washington DC - take your autistic date here to make them instantly orgasm

USS Battleship New Jersey Museum, Philadelphia PA - nothing is more erotic than boats

USS Nautilus Museum, Groton CT - I lied submarines are way more erotic than boats

The Museum Of Modern Art, NYC - take your date here if you hates them and their pussy and want them dead and to be claustrophobic and sweaty and disappointed and to throw them out a window so they are died. 

[radarsteddybear]

I am begging you to tell me your opinions on these american battleships because my only knowledge here at all is that Iowa is a landlocked state (isn't it???) which seems like am odd choice... and I'm so confused and would love to know which you think is best and why

EDIT: Here's the poll if anyone else would like to vote in the next *checks watch* 22 hours

That's a good question. Mostly I like them because battleships = cool and I've been to all of these (they're all museums now).

Actually, all the states they're named for are landlocked except for New Jersey (and, as such, the New Jersey is the only one actually in her namesake state; the Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin are in LA, Hawaii, and Norfolk, VA respectively). As far as I can tell, they're named after those states because the US likes to name ships after states, and I guess it was their turn again 🤷‍♀️

My list of fun facts that I've gathered from my visits (a lot of these are repeated from my original tags on the poll, so sorry if you've seen them already):

The Iowa-class battleships were the last class of battleships to be made for the US Navy.

Six battleships were ultimately ordered, though the Illinois and Kentucky were never finished. At some point, the Kentucky's bow was used to repair the Wisconsin after a collision.

The Iowa was used to transport FDR across the Atlantic during WWII for a 1943 conference in Tehran. As such, the US Navy had to refit the bathroom in the captain's quarters (which the president used while on board, being of the highest-rank on the ship) with a bathtub. Nobody ever had a good enough reason to remove it, so it's still there to this day.

I can't remember if this became a tradition or not, but on at least one occasion, the Iowa's crew welcomed her new captain by drawing him a bath in the aforementioned tub complete with a rubber duckie and a little toy sailboat.

During WWII, the Iowa had a mascot in the form of a little dog named Victory, or Vicky for short. He and President Roosevelt, who very famously had a little Scottie dog named Fala, got along very well, and Vicky even slept at the foot of the president's bed while he was aboard.

The New Jersey is the most decorated battleship in US history.

The Missouri was the site of Japan's formal surrender at the end of WWII.

The Missouri is currently moored at Pearl Harbor, meaning you can see the site of the beginning and the end of America's involvement in WWII in one place.

The Missouri was hit by a kamikaze and still bears a dent in her deck.

Even though the Wisconsin (BB-64) has a higher hull number than the Missouri (BB-63), the Wisconsin was commissioned and completed first.

The Wisconsin had a doughnut shop on board, though it is no longer in operation.

Sailors used to refer to the bunk beds (at least four high, if I'm remembering correctly) as "coffin racks" due to the limited amount of space between bunks.

The New Jersey has little two-person tables scattered around the enlisted men's bunk area with checkerboards printed directly on them so that sailors could pass the time. I'd bet the others do, too, but I don't remember specifically.

The Wisconsin has some sort of art on the walls but I forget the exact story behind that.

That's all the fun facts I can remember off the top of my head without digging up the notes I took.

I personally voted for the New Jersey because it was the first one I went to and it's the only one I've been to twice. Objectively, the Missouri may be the best because it was the site of such a historic moment.

[hajimeme1]

This reminds me of this clip of Ryan Szimanski, curator for Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial.

"Do you like your battleships to have a nice, thick, aft?"

Mind you, this is after NJ debuted in Azur Lane, like a few years after in fact. This man does know about her. And it's the funniest thing in the world to me.

The thing is, when museums and cultural institutions or researchers adopt memes in a "How do you do, fellow kids" way, that's adorable like my grandma when she's misusing emojis. However when some megacorp does it to sell me evil products or some influencer is trying to get me to buy nonsense skincare mud or cyberpunk looking face masks or weightloss pills, I think that's evil incarnate and their name goes into the Death Note (very mindful, very demure)

[ablogofsapphicpanic]

Have you ever taken a tour of the Battleship New Jersey now that it's a museum boat? It's so cool that such a decorated ship is named after your homeland!

This is one boat that I will vehemently protest and ignore

[southjerseyweb]

Interim CEO Marshall Spevak officially named CEO of Battleship New Jersey - ROI-NJ

Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial's board of trustees recently named South Jersey native and longtime Battleship trustee and supporter …

[lonestarbattleship]

Battleship NEW JERSEY sitting in a drydock and dry for the first time in over 30 years.

Date: March 30, 2024

Posted by Ryan Szimanski: link, link, link

[dbf-enthusiast]

It is not often that I, a 6'4 320lb man, have occasion to feel small.

[mongowheelie]

USS New Jersey: The Navy's Block IV Virginia-Class Submarine Is a Beast | The National Interest

[captain-price-unofficially]

New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship providing gunfire support during the Vietnam War. She is now a museum in Camden, New Jersey.

USS New Jersey (BB-62) arriving at Pearl Harbor, May, 1986

[sixfrigates]

Ever wanted to tour all three Philly area museum ships in one go? Ever wanted that go to be a guided tour led by experts from both museums? Well pull on your walking shoes and get ready to traverse several miles of floating steel because ISM and Battleship New Jersey are partnering again to bring back our Deck to Deck tours.

Tickets

[jigsaw173]

I just realized this was collecting dust in drafts

planes/cars headcanons I have (u can see how biased I am)

okay so these are just what I like to think so don’t piss on me pls if u disagree or sm 😭 ))

I will add onto this list from time to time!

also will sort it eventually

- dusty and skipper occasionally visit the flysenhower and bring goodies, much to the enjoyment of the sea locked crew

Adding on:

Skipper tells them war stories and teaches them about history

Dusty races them

- the piston peak air attack team probably have snoring problems (idk what it is with firefighters but they always snore so bad)

- dipper once choked on oil because dusty once said “yeah I know I know!” to blade while he was warning him while they were rushing out to a thing

- vehicles are able to modify themselves all the time but it’s seen kinda like coloring ur hair or getting tattoos

also mod car guys are a thing and so are those car shows where everyone gets in a parking lot and pops their hoods

- redbull is on the same bs as usual

- Jackson storm does the thing where low cars gotta drive diagonally over speed bumps and when the older cars first see him do it they’re all like “wtf?” and think it’s a quirky thing until they see others

- the reason rhe crowds are all generic aircraft and cars bc the un-ordinary ones are all busy constantly working

also it’s kind of rare to see them out and about bc of that

especially rarer to see boats and planes in the middle of a city or sm because they aren’t as mobile as cars and forklifts

(car visits propwash, sees Corsair for the first time in person like HOLY)

(Wait would aviation museums still be a thing? Like an old hangar full of artifacts and war vets who live there that you can talk to)

Already mentioned by someone a while ago:

- boats sometimes accidentally swallow water if they’re talking in rough seas and they have to spit it back out cause they aren’t meant to consume seawater (they drink fuel(?)and fuel+water is a big no-no) so sometimes boats with big drafts don’t talk much if the weather is bad

- all the navy characters heavily smell of fuel oil (if I had to describe it it’s what you’d imagine what sweaty asbestos smells like)(ok but real asbestos doesn’t have a smell btw)(unless I��m nose blind)

- nautical and aviation radio comms is a taught class like English is for students in the USA

- sparky is a plane spotter

- they say dinocar instead of dinosaur (I think this is funny even though proven wrong in cars 2)

- Mack and gray eat lunch together and hang out every time their racers are on the track

- strip weathers fin/intake look became an iconic trend at some point when he became a legend

- all the iowa class battleships like to make mickey of eachother and have a sibling-ish relationship, with missouri being like the spoiled child, all fawned over and popular, and New Jersey being like the oldest child with the hard work and is jealous of the Missouri’s attention. the others are like the middle children. wisky is called “anger issues” for ONE particular incident despite not being very angry

- when small(er) planes like dusty aren’t flying and push their engines enough to smoke its an intimidation tactic (also not seen often even while flying in non-racers bc it takes a lot of effort)

so when military jets use afterburner and stuff casually on takeoff or something others are terrified or think somethings wrong (the military aircraft use afterburners and push themselves to the limit so often they don’t really think about it compared to civilians who almost never have to full send it)

- road markings aren’t really paid attention to in smaller towns/communities

“It’s just a guide”

- the other ships in the flysenhowers strike group very much respect him because he’s pretty chill every time they interact

- in spirit of the movie-bravo and echo and the crew have DEFINITELY watched top gun together in the hangar

To add on: bravo was annoying everyone by pointing out the inconsistencies and inaccuracies and echo cried bc of *cough spoilers cough* goose

Highway to the danger zone was banned after tango kept singing it over comms

and delta kinda liked singing it too but refuses to admit it

- planes argue over the use of the word “tarmac”

- the bigger u are the harder it is to move around/express (less mobile/stiff) so that’s why some ships need tugs and some planes (like the airliners) needed the tows

(Again, just what I follow)

siblings/family can mean a lot of things from someone u were built with to someone u were just raised closely with

also the vehicles drink oil but also need to fill up with gas by pump bc they’re meant for diffeeent things

Vehicles can survive on oil without gas but can’t vice versa because the oil is what moves their organic parts while the gas is just meant for the MOVE part and that’s why lightning could still move slightly while out of gas

It’s also why they have bathrooms (for the oil) and gas just burns out instead of passing through

- the admiral likes to watch the horizon for ships or anything interesting and also has incredible vision despite having radars

ships can also somewhat see even with their eyes closed bc of them and so there have been a few blind operational ships

- bigger vehicles don’t need to sleep as often but the world runs on the small vehicle schedule

- cabbie and skipper bond over service stories after dusty introduced them after the airshow

cabbie also introduced skipper to radio scanning

- dipper is distantly related to a navy Martin Mars

- the carriers are publicly seen as nonverbal because they gotta keep up appearances while arriving/leaving port and for advantages during active service but can actually become quite talkative once relaxed/safe

bonus: cars that didn’t know carriers could speak and navy sailors that constantly try to get them to smile/laugh even on duty like the queens guards

- skipper knows how to navigate by stars despite not needing to

- ask sparky anything about warbirds and he will excitedly go into depth about them

- radiator springs used to have an ambulance and a firefighter forklift who worked closely with red before they all moved, leaving him alone

- many vehicles often use their builds/titles/companies as their name while simultaneously having a normal name and while it’s used more professionally it’s also commonly casual (ex: mack, skipper, sheriff, doc, sarge, etc)

- kittyhawk likes to sing sea shanties

he is also a very comforting presence to his crew

- jammer annually thanks the PPAA team as well as rake and Pulaski with a party at the lodge

cabbie gets sad (if he can’t fit) so they’ll bring the party to him and have it outdoors (following safety guidelines to not start a fire of course )

- rake and Pulaski met in training and have been best friends since

- the secretary looks like a deer on PURPOSE

- lots of carriers names are shortened by the crew if theirs is too long or to make them seem more alive

USS Constellation - Connie (thinks it’s clever)

USS Dwight D. Flysenhower - Flysenhower (yeah it’s just the same)

USS Carl Vinson - Carl (doesn’t mind the first name(?)(is it their names??) basis)

USS Saratoga - Sara(h) (kinda likes the nickname)

USS Kittyhawk - Kitty (keeps saying everyone should him ‘hawk’ instead purely because it sounds cooler)

USS John F. Kennedy - JFK (its not the shortest way to say it (john is) but everyone uses it cause they think it’s cooler and it won’t get confused for the john c stennis)(jfk doesn’t care)(rip kittyhawk tho)

USS Nimitz - Nimitz (its short enough already)(doesn’t care about the short name but doesn’t get to brag about what nickname the crew gave them ‘this week’)

And Etc…

- the boats actually kinda like being thought about from time to time and will talk about their crew with other ships

[judgemark45]

This 1954 family portrait is from a rare occasion when all four sister Iowa-class battleships were together. From front to back is USS Iowa, USS Wisconsin, USS Missouri and USS New Jersey. All the ships are now museums.