Wow, you know what I just realized? Often when you are filming on the battleship you are situated in some seriously boomy/echo-y spaces, but your audio always comes through very clear. However you folk are washing that through a post-processing filter is really working... all the little hidden labor that goes into production takes time but is deeply appreciated. Thanks for the great work and offering all of us so much terrific educational content. 😁👍

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! We get a lot of heat for our audio not being perfect and it ain't easy to get it this far.

@DeviantOllam

9 ай бұрын

@@BattleshipNewJersey those are goofuses who hate ya 'cause they ain't ya... keep doing what you're doing 😁👍 you're great

@NLAWScametovisit

9 ай бұрын

@@DeviantOllam video on red teaming the battleship New Jersey when?

Good to see the curator metric system is still in use.

The idea of having 45000+ tons of battleship sit itself down on top of you terrifying.

@shanieboi86

9 ай бұрын

The irony of this comment is that you would have over 45000 tons of water above you at that depth if there was no ship there or the ship wouldnt float.

@rootbeerpoptart

9 ай бұрын

​@@shanieboi86it's a bit easier to swim through water than a battleship though

It amazes me how similar a ship is to a power plant. I understand now why it was called a stationary unit. Run it may shine it must .

So cool to see such an important ship preserved. I've lived in New Jersey my entire life and my uncle's unit called in fire missions from the New Jersey in Vietnam.

1. Clean and paint the ship 2. Replace the anodes 3. Inspect openings 4. Repack gland seals

@turkeyboyjh1

9 ай бұрын

I like how you placed the thing that could sink the ship first last, yes corrosion is a vastly important part of vessel preservation but on a ship of this scale things like shaft glands and huge and can leak massive quantities of water into the ship before corrosion can even start to be an issue on an armored ship, through hole openings are the next important because some of the openings like the one shown in the video are also capable off leaking massive amounts of water into the ship and are much thinner than the material around

@Grunttamer

9 ай бұрын

@@turkeyboyjh1probably wouldn’t do the list in series anyway

@jasonmurawski5877

9 ай бұрын

@@turkeyboyjh1 the gland seals can be repacked while in the water. They’re specifically designed to be able to do that. It’s easier to do it out of the water, but if they run out of time to do it, it can be done at her berth. The other stuff HAS to be done in drydock.

@paulheitkemper1559

9 ай бұрын

​@@turkeyboyjh1gland seals aren't as much of a problem on a shaft that's never expected to turn again.

@adamk203

9 ай бұрын

@@turkeyboyjh1 the shaft tunnels are relatively small compartments, so if a gland seal failed, it would only flood a very small part of the ship. Not ideal, but it definitely would not sink it.

Hi Ron I watched your video about the main condensers. When I served on board the USS Randolph I worked in the NO2 Engine Room and I had to go in the main condensers to inspect them and The smell was horrible which was methane gas back in the 1962 there were no safety rules. In you video you wondered what kind of metal they were made of the answer is MONEL all of the metal in contact with salt water is made out of this metal. MONEL IS MADE OUT OF A NICKEL-COPPER ALLOYS ABOUT 66% NICKEL AND 31.5% COPOPER WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF iRON. Thanks again for the personal guided tour you gave to my son and I on fathers day several years ago. Keep up the good work your doing a great job Yours truly Anthony Carta and Son

@Battleship New Jersey, Ryan you need someone to donate or fundraise for an underwater drone. Not a million dollar one, but I'm sure you could find a really good one for few thousand. It'd make it possible for you to easily and safely inspect the ship underneath. Not needed now if you're going to Drydock. But moving forward for future inspections it'd be a good idea. Also cheaper than paying a diver in the long run and safer

hi ryan--jan from crew of the COD here--( yep, im a girl ) My dad was pacific ww2 engine room crew chief on USS KNOX apa 46--island hopping--Im going to Pearl in three weeks in dads memory and will be where he was 80 years ago. Im looking so forward to seeing Mighty Mo, as i havent been in a battleship before. Looks like all will go well for your big gal. Great video ( as was the one with Paul ) Thanks so much for sharing!!! Good luck and keep those videos coming!

It amazing how a handful of you guys maintain this thing. As for fixing leaks, they are all important for an easy next few years.

The blanks are more important, IMHO, simply because they are inaccessible when in the water, and may have leaks hidden by valves. The prop shafts are accessible, and can be repacked while submerged.

@turkeyboyjh1

9 ай бұрын

Both are equally important I wonder if there is a way they could pressurize the compartments containing the gland seals to check for leaks and/or keep water intrusion out in the future, I know the sealed doors are capable of taking quite immense amounts of pressure

@user-mr8ij8gi7c

8 ай бұрын

Using air pressure to check seals can work in certain situations... but you have to be careful where used and how much pressure is applied. If you add too much pressure behind some of these seals (even just to check) the air pressure itself could push OUT through the seal, causing a leak allowing water to flow back in afterward.

1) inspect / repair thru-hull openings 2) Blast/Paint 3) New Anodes (and maybe some extra on the large thru-hulls) 4) Repack glands Thanks for the Videos Ryan

The inspection itself will be the most important thing, and the knowledge it will bring of potential future issues.

Great job for Belzona

As you have stated repairing any leaking blanks, some as you said won't reveal themselves until sitting in dry dock, repacking the shaft and rudder seals, and recoating the hull both under and at the water line, as well as changing the zincs to aluminum. I don't know what else could be or cause any more leaks as you have covered most of them including the thinner skin on the bow. I guess the key with a dry dock trip being so expensive would be to cover anything that could possibly fail underwater before it fails. Keep up the good work that you and your crew are doing in preserving one of the last battle wagons that will ever be built

My recommended priorities for the docking plan is to test and replace the blanks as needed before 'blasting and painting the underwater hull followed by the 'blasting and paint. Then repack or seal the rudder posts and shaft openings.

If you are thinking of the future , any item that may be ok now and doesn't get done will be a priority for your successor so it's going to be important the condition of the underwater hull is recorded as fully as possible . Underwater openings , especially on the flat bottom given the diving hazard and the coatings would be essential , if anything has to be cut it has to be jobs that could be done in the water . Full marks for the thought and planning being done and I hope you get the full funding in time .

The exhaust steam (Dead Steam) from the turbine is condensed into condensate which is aerated water. The condensate is pumped via Condensate Pumps (CP), to the Deaerating Feed Tank (DFT). Above the DFT is the deaerator, which removes dissolved oxygen from the condensate turning it into feedwater. The DFT is set high in the space to provide about 20 to 30 psi of suction head pressure to the Feed Pump Booster Pumps (FPBP), which discharge approximately 80 psi suction head pressure to the Boiler Feedwater Pumps (BFP), which discharge to the boilers at from 750 to 1,350 psi depending on the boiler operating pressure. The reason for the progression of of feedwater pumps is to prevent cavitation, the flashing of water to steam at low pressures, which would destroy the internals of the BFP.

@henrycarlson7514

9 ай бұрын

The Maim feed pumps on Ranger and Hepburn , were 1500 psi.

@Therealtracyduane

9 ай бұрын

Excellent, Thanks for the info

@user-mr8ij8gi7c

7 ай бұрын

Nice description @theRealTracyDuane Glad to know more about how that works. Sounds like you have spent time with that equipment, to keep it running + healthy. A few thoughts/questions: 1) If the steam/condense/water cycle is a closed loop, then how does air/oxygen get into that water cycle to need deairation? 2) When steam goes through condenser, do you recall the temp of water coming out of condener, through BFP and back into boiler?? It would seem like a temp near 180F would condense steam to water (though still fairly hot) but require less fuel/energy for the boilers to heat water back to steam. ... or does the water need to be cooler than 150F to work in DFT properly? 3) I would like to understand more about the 1300+PSI Boiler Feed Pumps... Were the BFP electrical powered... steam powered... or some of each for redundancy and use at different times? About how many gallons per minute of condensed feed water had to be pumped back into those boilers? It would need to be a lot to keep BB62 turbines turning at 50,000hp each. We're the pumps themselves single stage centrifugal pumps... multi stage... or what kind of design to get that much water back into boilers running well over 1000PSI.

Keep on floating! 🤘 I really would like to pay a visit to BB62 one day.

Question: how are museum ships that have been dry docked after mothballing doing? Are their repairs, etc holding up better than the work done during decommissioning?

@turkeyboyjh1

9 ай бұрын

I would assume so as long as they hired competent welders, welding technology has came a long way even in the last 10 years

@tomhenry897

9 ай бұрын

St.Louis let theirs sink Another town in NY? Let theirs sink but in shallow water

ASW! ASW! ASW! Auxiliary Salt Water 4 lyf!!!!! 🤣 thank you for making and sharing the videos!!!!

Would like to see a video on the team planning this drydock. Is the navy helping? Did you hire a consultant? Did you hire a project manager to handle the yard, Coast Guard, Navy, tug boats, cranes, museum staff and berth projects while the ship is moved?

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

The navy is not involved. You'll see that team on this channel as we get closer to move day for sure!

You really should take the chance to 3D scan the ship while in drydock, if time and gov allows ofc!

@highstreetkillers4377

9 ай бұрын

they have drawings, don't need to scan it to make a ed model

To this day the coolest thing I've ever seen in regards to sandblasting is how they are able to effectively sandblast the side of a Long Black submersible ship via a robotic device that leaves no mess.

Given how shallow the space below the ship sounds and I think you have mentioned before silting has been happening while the ship has been at the current site, are their plans to do dredging while the ship is away?

Bring them back to restore peace!

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I’d say general hull maintenance then repack the screws followed lastly by through hull plugs.

You need to install stainless steel DeZURICK valves. No corrosion issues. One of the few high quality items our papermill buys. Cool video.

@vinny142

9 ай бұрын

Stainless steel still corrodes, especially in salt water. Metallurgy is a very complex field.

@tomhenry897

9 ай бұрын

Unless cheaply made

@jasonmurawski5877

9 ай бұрын

They aren’t allowed to power up any engineering equipment, so they probably aren’t allowed to replace stuff on it either

@jimmiles33

9 ай бұрын

@@jasonmurawski5877why are Cod and Silversides able to run their engines then?

@jasonmurawski5877

9 ай бұрын

@@jimmiles33 that’s there specific navy contract. I cant say for certain on either of those ships but none of the iowas are allowed to run their engines, boilers, or diesels.

Suggested priorities are 1. Repack the gland seals as they can let in a lot of water very quickly if they fail 2. Replace the anodes as without them the ship will start to corrode badly 3. Inspect the openings and re-weld where necessary 4. Paint the ship

I'd rate painting the hull and verifying/replacing the blanks at number one. Then the anodes and gland seals.

Gotta get it ready to deploy to the Mediterranean!

@joejoemyo

9 ай бұрын

Certainly a lot of -apartment blocks- terrorist strongholds to bombard

@robertf3479

9 ай бұрын

I was joking around on a comment board earlier today when I suggested that parking a battleship just off Gaza could do a couple of things for both Israel and our Navy. One thing she could do would be to act as a distraction to the Islamists, keeping their attention focused on her if she started training and elevating her main battery and their attention not so much on Special Forces or the regular army if they are able to move quietly. "Robert's Rule of Combat #23 - Use your opponent's paranoia against him."

@DrkEnigma

9 ай бұрын

Imagine parking New Jersey off off the coast in the Mediterranean with either the Ford or the Eisenhower strike groups...yeah baby ! 👍🥳👍🤘🤘

@TheUsmc0802

9 ай бұрын

This exactly why we still need them! Gaza/Palestine would be a parking lot in a weekend.

@alexigram2381

9 ай бұрын

​@@TheUsmc0802howdy. Reporting your comment for hate speech & graphic violence.

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Ryan, a question, when New Jersey goes into dry dock, I'm assuming that at some point, once she's up on blocks and the dry dock drained, you and your associates will be allowed onto the floor of the dry dock. My question is, do you have a list of things to go see first or walk around and just take it all in?

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

We won't be running to the weak end of the bow or anything but we've got a list of concern spots we will look extra close at. But first, probably just a nice stroll around the whole thing

Redo plates and repaint. And zinc. And packing shafts.

Big J takes in a bunch of water, because she is steam powered. However, turbine powered warships are also steam powered. The General Electric LM-2500 marine gas turbine is water injected, therefore it uses steam to drive its power turbine, just like Battleship New Jersey drives her turbines with steam. So the technologies on your fabulous museum are very relevant today.

It's entirely possible that the failure was of the metal, not the weld. While they are indeed the entry point if they're done wrong, i have my doubts that any person welding a battleship would be on the level of bad technical education required to fail that bad. Ryan has shown us several elements that at the very least show the intent that the ship would come out of mothballs at least one more time (in terms of how things were done to mothball it). If we follow that logic lay line, it's perfectly ok to assume the metal used wasn't meant to last as long. Kinda like ... putting a dollop of epoxy putty over a leaky pipe. It's not a fix, it's a temporary patch until you get the chance to properly fix it.

Half a curators height

B O N D O !

@EDKguy

9 ай бұрын

Yup. Then a topcoat of Flexseal. Good to go.

I'm curious how long it would take to make a ship like this sea-worthy. Not necessarily battle ready, but able to function on its own at sea. Seems like a lot of work went into mothballing it so much would probably have to be undone. And does dry docking allow to inspect/fix issues that might be problematic later therefore allowing a shorter return-to-service time? Not that I see that being a possibility at the moment.

Priority order in descending order: Blanks, paint hull, stern tubes with emphasis on prop shafts.

I'd rate repacking the gland seals on par at the top with the blanks. Those old gland seals have GOT to be fragile at this point.

Well, assuming the blanks are treated as part of the hull, blanks before painting, after cleaning.

While the ship is in dry dock, will you be leaving some of the underwater holes open? To maybe reactivate some equipment or certain systems you’d like to see work again?

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely not. We can't reactivate the systems that run steam and we can plumb in our own water for everything else.

Will you use heavier duty blanks to extend there usable lifespan?

Apart from pressure testing the blanks is there any other way to test the thickness or integrity of the patches? Perhaps X-ray for thickness or magnaflux for weld integrity ?

Alright. I've got an out-there question for you. In a zombie apocalypse, how would BBNJ fair as a safe/defendable structure for human survivors?

@jimmiles33

9 ай бұрын

She runs on shore power. So once the grid workers turn into zombies, you have a dark ship. And any ship is fine since you can just remove the gangways and then the zombies can’t get to you.

@Huntress236

9 ай бұрын

@@jimmiles33 don't need power to survive lol. Gotta helipad for supply drops too. I think she'd be great. A defensible structure.

Is there a plan to replace or rebuild the valve on that condenser while in dry dock?

Blanks and coatings, got to keep the inside dry and the rust at bay.

I know with smaller boats, it's common to repack shaft and rudder seals while in the water. Now, I suppose, the shaft seals on New Jersey have something like 20' head of water pressure on them. But, is it not possible to repack them wet?

@jasonmurawski5877

9 ай бұрын

They are specifically designed to be repacked wet. You don’t want to take a ship out of service just because the packing failed

Are you planning to check and fix the valves too?

Curious? How do the zinc saltwater anodes react to the freshwater, do they deteriorate faster or slower compared to the aluminum anodes? (Correct me if I am wrong, is aluminum the Way to go for freshwater)

@sebastianjezierski8450

9 ай бұрын

From what Ryan said in previous videos, they deteriorate much slower if at all. They are going to replace them with aluminium in the dry dock.

@normanlacy3390

9 ай бұрын

@sebastianjezierski8450 thank you hardley miss a video, just figured I'd ask

@normanlacy3390

9 ай бұрын

Also with tide isn't that brackish water?

General hull maintenance and leakproofing are a must, but I say leave the plugs alone until last. You should also consider raising funds for other drydock projects like restoring the pumps and/or replacing the broken valves.

@aserta

9 ай бұрын

Unlikely she'll get another chance at a drydock any time soon. Unfortunately, education is not that high on the list of politicians, and they're very not interested in helping veterans unless it suits their needs.

When you are dry docking the ship is their some parts of the ship you could get working again? By opening some of the panels that were close during the moth balling process that could be beneficial?

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

We would not want to do that even if we were allowed. We don't want to more holes in the ship, thats where the water comes in! We aren't allowed to activate the engines.

I'm not a metallurgical expert so is it possible to add additional sacrificial anodes that could be replaced by divers to prevent as much of the corrosion as possible.

Is it possible to blank off the valves on the sea chest side as a redundant seal?

@themightydropbear

9 ай бұрын

You could for some of them but it's honestly better to leave them because when a valve on a system that should be empty suddenly starts leaking seawater, it tells you that your blank has failed, whereas if the sea chest was blanked off on the inside, you wouldn't know anything was wrong until the inner blank failed and flooded the compartment.

@vinny142

9 ай бұрын

@@themightydropbear "you wouldn't know anything was wrong until the inner blank failed and flooded the compartment." A water-level sensor is like $2.50:) But I would not blank the inside either though because if there is a leak you still need to get in there to fix it. Leaving water inside it is the last thing you want and if the first thing you do when there is a small leak is to grind the inner plate off again....

I have cleaned out number one main condensers on both USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin. It stinks inside those condensers.

@richcruse2689

9 ай бұрын

I have had the “pleasure” of cleaning out all the condensers on NJ, and some Aux condensers. Best time, Brisbane, cleaning out jelly fish, while still hot, to keep ship and gens running. 😊

2:20 do the condensers turn "dead" low pressure hot steam into hot boiler feed water? If "dead" steam is condensed, does that mean the steam system is closed? Is the steam system opened, sometimes? Could you make a fun color coded graphic? I don't know how steam powered massive buildings operate!

@richcruse2689

9 ай бұрын

BB-62, and all Navy ships are closed loop steam systems. It’s easier to condense and reuse, than to use fresh feed each time.

@jamesturner2126

9 ай бұрын

@@richcruse2689 I just saw the size of Big J, I thought she could make fresh steam from sea water. Open loop. Like a bunch of locomotives chugging along on the high seas. Cool.

1.blanks 2. repacking 3. repaint 4. zink. what y’all have done over the last 2 decades has worked fairly well. so that’s why zink is at the bottom for me at least.

@ferky123

9 ай бұрын

Aluminum is replacing the zinc.

@haydenunsell

9 ай бұрын

@@ferky123 you know what i mean. i just didn’t want to type everything out.

Have you priced sending an ROV underneath? I suspect a professional operator would charge a non-negligible amount for their time, but the buying your own hardware seems to start at under $1k so I'd be shocked if the price for a pro would be too high to ever be worth getting estimates for.

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

Tried it, the water moves too quickly and its too muddy.

THROUGH HOLE OPENINGS FIRST then anode replacement then gland repacking, any other repairs while you have the money and time then once all repairs are done sand blast and paint remember folks were are keeping this piece of history functional, not pretty function always must come first then left over funds can be used for museum and appearance

How is the Iowa and Wisconsin going to prevent failure of their thru hull openings if they have no plans to dry dock?

@robertf3479

9 ай бұрын

How do you know they don't have plans in the works to drydock their ships? I'm in Norfolk VA and am sure that the Nauticus Museum has a plan for Wisconsin.

@pizzaivlife

9 ай бұрын

no plans probably just means no immediate plans. if there was a big issue, they would prioritize it.

@dave4882

9 ай бұрын

bilge pumps.

@JoshuaTootell

9 ай бұрын

New Jersey didn't have plans until recently

@CarreraTrackOntheFloor

9 ай бұрын

@@robertf3479 The Iowa museum has said they have no plans. There is no dry dock close to them on the West Coast.

Hey Ryan, would $10 million cover everything, or do you need an additional $10 million to cover all your projects?

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

$10mil would just about cover everything, so we're only a couple million away

Need to get if back in service now.

Watertight first - then paint

Any chance New Jersey will be called back into service given the rising tensions in the Middle East and the Israel War?

@savagecanadian9659

9 ай бұрын

No even if she was being considered she would need probably a year or two of maintenence and upgrading let alone crew training

@BattleshipNewJersey

9 ай бұрын

no

I have been trying to talk to you on Facebook messenger sharing pictures of battleships under construction and other things about the US Navy but I do not think I got the right one but you don’t want I can find that has a picture of you and the battleship New Jerseybut there’s no information on this profile whatsoever

Watched three of these, really liked the recent one on the propulsion system because we got to see a lot of what you were talking about as you walked us through the ship. But these where you just sit in one place and talk, that is super boring and this will be the last one for me.

The battle ship would not do any good in the med

How lazy are people? 193k subs. 19k views. 2.1k likes. wow. it's a click. but it helps.

Man I wish I had 10 million dollars. Are y'all active on twitter? Maybe Bezos or Musk or someone is a naval history nerd!

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