Hi everyone, glad this video got so much traction! I keep seeing a lot of comments in regard to other cruisers that are preserved today. I just wanted to make a note: Salem is the only preserved Heavy Cruiser left, not the only cruiser preserved in the world. There are a number of cruisers of different types (armored, light, etc) that are out there, examples like HMS Belfast, the Averof in Greece, USS Little Rock and USS Olympia.

@Pyro-et9vs

Жыл бұрын

I love ww2 warships, i just wish there was a practical contemporary use for them beyond preserving the memories of the past.

@johnjackson5142

Жыл бұрын

We rondayvo

@johnjackson5142

Жыл бұрын

We rendezvous with the Salem in the Mediterranean, she was a beauty if I'm not mistaken she was our sister ship,uss Des Moines.

@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr

5 ай бұрын

Excuse me, you don't seem to know wether it's 8, 9 inch or 9 ,8 inch guns

@svgproductions72

5 ай бұрын

@@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr hi, it’s 9 8-inch guns on this ship

It's awful how poorly that ship has been maintained. Just from that clip alone, I can tell that it desperately needs to be repainted on the waterline, the wood decking is badly rotted, and even the paint on the upper deck is showing clear signs of rust. Before it becomes a USS The Sullivans situation, they really need to secure further funding to bring her back to shape. Otherwise she may be involuntarily destined for the scrap heap, which would be an enormous tragedy.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, she needs some work. I just think she doesn’t get as much love as the museum battleships, but we have to thank her crew and volunteers for their continuous work! Hopefully one day she’ll get a new paint job and deck to help her looks

@TheEDFLegacy

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 Hopefully! Though for me the bigger concern is her buoyancy; unlike the Sullivans, if she were to sink at her moorings, she'd very likely be a write-off, because being such a large (and relatively unarmoured) ship, she'd break her back way more easily. :(

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

@@TheEDFLegacy I understand that, I watched the Sullivans incident happen and was upset about it, we will just have to hope the same thing doesn’t happen to the Salem

@frankbodenschatz173

Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how much it costs to drydock a ship. A go fund me would be a great way to start. Far better than all these panhandlers.

@daxlucero2437

Жыл бұрын

I went there years ago and a AA battery was fully rusted

For all the people who served in the Navy, respect and restoration of this ship is deserved.

@terrywadsworth5645

Жыл бұрын

Maintaining these ships not only preserves history but represents the service and spirit of the many who crewed them.

@christianfreedom-seeker934

Жыл бұрын

Pointless to keep her afloat. Either completely bring her onto land and do a multi-million dollar restoration (who is going to pay for that?) And then built a shed around her to keep her out of the elements. Or just take out the oil tanks and sink her to create a new reef or just have her scrapped. I like the "reef" idea better because it helps ocean life and divers can still dive the ship.

I visited USS Salem a couple of weeks back. I was really impressed. I have visited a variety of battleships, carriers, destroyers an subs. What USS Salem did best was the tour guides. They had volunteers that took each group coming aboard on a tour. No other museum ship I have been to offered free personalized tours. Definitely visit if you get the chance.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I didn’t get a tour while I was there, I roamed the ship by myself. A tour would have given me a lot more insight on the history of the ship

@JonatasAdoM

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 Freely roaming sounds like a dream honestly.

@dixiecyrus8136

13 сағат бұрын

Toured the USS Lexington, beautiful ship❤❤❤ carriers are awesome too❤❤

Massachusetts has a very impressive Museum Fleet, The South Dakaota Class USS Massachusetts, Guided Missile Cruiser Joseph P. Kennedy, Fletcher Class Destroyer USS Cassin Young, 1 WWII Era submarine, an East German Tarantul Class Missile Boat, the National PT Boat Museum and The USS Salem. The Salem is the least visited, yet still the largest of them all.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

I visited her a few years ago! It was the first time I’ve visited a battleship. I didn’t know about Salem until I heard about her on the Battleship New Jersey KZread channel

@metaknight115

Жыл бұрын

Massachusetts is the only preserved American battleship to sink, or even come into contact with an enemy battleship. She is also the only preserved American battleship to sink, or even come into contact with something larger than a destroyer

@metaknight115

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 That's so cool. She's my favorite US battleship of all time

@AcePilotX2

Жыл бұрын

@@metaknight115 what do u mean sink?

@metaknight115

Жыл бұрын

@@AcePilotX2 During the battle of Casablanca, Massachusetts engaged the Nazi controlled French battleship Jean Bart, and sank her in port. She also sank around 1-2 light cruisers and a 2 destroyers. Most American battleships encountered a destroyer or two at the most.

Now that's a battle ship

@peterson7082

Жыл бұрын

Well cruiser

@erichvonmanstein6876

Жыл бұрын

Nah it's not a BB though

“What do you need son?” We need to borrow your boat!

@ignaciosindhu6779

Жыл бұрын

proceed to drift that ship to dodge some bullets

@DRUNKRUSSAIN2

11 ай бұрын

@@ignaciosindhu6779TOKYO DRIFT DAT MOFO

@Audictator_Zeaxxous

11 ай бұрын

🤩 Battleships vibes 🤩

I would love to visit her. I didn't even know that there were any heavy cruisers left. This former sailor thanks you for posting this video!

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome Jon! And thank you for your service

We had a brass model of one in the lobby at the COs building in San Diego that was very beautiful and impressive

Thank you for pronouncing Des Moines correctly. Salem and her sisters were pretty impressive.

And she was a movie star... She played the KMS GRAF SPEE in the movie "battle of the river plate"

I live 5 minutes from the ship and been on it a few times, AMAZING

@donarthiazi2443

Жыл бұрын

Next time you visit the ol girl see if you can get them to clean her up a bit. She deserves as much

She looks like a mini Iowa

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, it really does!

@jadeorbigoso5212

Жыл бұрын

Well Des Moines Class Cruisers was based in Iowa but smaller version in order to escort the carriers

@lmo1960

Жыл бұрын

Not at all. The Des Moines class is the follow-on to the Baltimore and Oregon City classes of heavy cruisers, and is the ultimate heavy cruiser design. No relationship to battleships at all, different roles.

That's one beautiful girl!! Glad to see she's still alive. Beautiful just plain beautiful!! Love those heavy cruisers.

I live 5 minutes away from the Salem. Always donate everytime i go.

They are truly beautiful ships.

Man she’s a beauty

I live a 2 minute walk away and love my special ship, there’s also tons of models of ships and planes inside the ship

A film star too....played graf spee in battle of the river plate

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

I should have put that fact instead of it’s length what a great one I realized after the fact !

I have been here numerous times and even stayed overnight a few times. It is crazy how much of the ship is open to explore compared to other museum ships like the Missouri or the Intrepid

Second only to the Alaska class in size *in US Naval service*

I spent the night on that ship several times in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. A great ship. I joined the Navy at 23. I still work for the Navy, 19 years later.

I recently visited the USS Salem and had a incredible visit! A big shout out to the Chief & Jim for amazing tours of the ship!

@rabidsquirrel22ben

Жыл бұрын

I was just there yesterday and got an amazing tour from Jim including all sorts of hidden areas like the hangar and fire control room. What a great guy!

Damn that’s 72rpm of 8” shells ! That’s a lot of bang and boom per minute

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

She could really lay down some supporting fire!

I saw her she was amazing

Been there done that. I was happy to visit the Salem since I’ve been on basically every basic ship type except a cruiser. I think the Buffalo is up in NY if I ever wanna visit a light cruiser too. And Massachusetts is my favorite museum ship because I’ve been visiting her my entire life.

The Sea Witch

I've been aboard the Salem many times and each time I love it, thanks for doing a short on her and getting the word out there about her.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Wanted to spread the word!

@middleman9596

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 and you are spreading it well

I did not know that this was available in Boston. I have been to the Battleship Massachusetts museum almost 50 years ago. But I’ve always wanted to see one of these cruisers.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Just south of Boston! The Massachusetts apparently is going through some overhaul so she’ll look pretty good soon enough

She's a beaut

Very interesting! I wish I'd known this when I visited Boston. Definitely going to visit the next time I'm there!!

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, part of why I made this video was to spread awareness of this historic ship and hopefully get people to visit!

I served on the Heavy Cruiser, USS Newport News CA 148 on its 2nd Vietnam deployment. Great ship and good memories. There were 3 Heavy Cruisers with 8” rapid fire guns all of the same class. The DeMoines, the Newport News and the Salem. Only the USS Salem is left. On board the USS Salem is a memorial to the 20+ sailors killed on board the USS Newport News on its 3rd Vietnam deployment by an exploding 8” shell in turret 2. RIP

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service William! Thanks for the comment

@williamwest5827

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 Thank you sir!🇺🇸

I remember her. My old science teacher served aboard and took us out on the occasional field trip to visit the Salem. Glad to see she's still seaworthy.

The actress who played Graf Spee in River of the River plate.

Such a beautiful old lady!

The fast 8"s!

My grandfather served on the Salem in the Korean War time. Almost 15 years ago before he died he took me to see the ship and it was closed that day and when the security guard saw the USS Salem hat my grandfather was wearing he said I’m opening this ship for you and he gave us a private tour. It one of the best experiences of my life.

Des mones class 👌

Back in the early 90’s she was birthed in a mothball fleet at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. I was just out of college and worked at the base. I loved walking past her and the Des Moines. I knew guys who inspected them in Phila and they said they were both in excellent shape at the time

@lmo1960

Жыл бұрын

When museum people visited from Quincy, the Des Moines was offered first. When the director saw that Salem was in much better shape (far less scavenging) he asked for Salem instead.

I'm from New Hampshire I've been to the Salem the Massachusetts the lionfish the cassin young and constitution. Awesome stuff

She's still beautiful to me

My grandad was on that ship! He Talked about her all the time. I Still Got his hat that says uss salem.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

That’s amazing!

It really annoys me that Britain preserved almost none of the big older warships.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Would have been great to see a King George V class or even a Queen Elizabeth like Warspite

@ep5019

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 absolutely

@ragingassassin6659

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 it blows my mind they didn't save the warspite considering its droves of achievements compared to the rest of the fleet.

@kenlawton1531

Жыл бұрын

@@ragingassassin6659 Warspite is legendary, what a shame.

My dad's ship in the late 1950s . He was the Admirals writer.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure he’s got some great stories! Love to hear that he was a part of this ship’s history, thanks for the comment

I was a sailor aboard USS Salem's sister ship the USS Newport News (CA-148) these were the greatest cruiser class, ever built 1968-1970.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

It’s a Beautiful class of ship! Thank you for your service!

Imagine her and the "Iowa" class ladies ( USS New Jersey, USS Missouri ( aka "mighty Mo") in battle together 🤔

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

A force to reckon with!

Btw, please do more ship content. My father was a sailor for 22 years, so I love hearing about ships again.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for that, I was focusing on aircraft but love all of this stuff, there’s a pretty big naval museum where I live so I’ll drop by there soon for another video

I believe that she is only one of three remaining post dreadnaught era cruisers, aside the US Cleveland class light cruiser Little Rock, and the UK Town/Edinburgh class light cruiser Belfast

@jeffpotipco736

Жыл бұрын

Where is Galveston?

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffpotipco736 I think they meant the Little Rock, it’s up in Buffalo NY sitting next to the destroyer USS The Sullivans

@metaknight115

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 Oh yes, that is what I meant.

@jeffpotipco736

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 yes little rock is there.

@frankbodenschatz173

Жыл бұрын

She is not a dreadnought era but post WW2 built ship. The Cleveland class was 10 yr prior.

My father was stationed on a Baltimore class heavy cruiser.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

We thank him for his service! What a beautiful class to be sailing on !

Beautiful

Artillery ships could be a thing again with more modern long range cannons with auto loaders and modern armor and engines.

@wstavis3135

Жыл бұрын

Germany has mounted the turret from one of their panzerhaubitze2000 on a warship to test it. 155mm auto loading gun with 60km range.

@Cailus3542

Жыл бұрын

Given that that the railgun concept failed, this is honestly unlikely. Missiles are simply far more versatile and have ten times the range. It'd be amazing, but still.

@thebigsad5402

Жыл бұрын

@@Cailus3542 missiles are about to peak in their role. Once that happens, defense will catch up

@thalmoragent9344

Жыл бұрын

@@Cailus3542 Yeah but you can shoot down missiles and rockets, and that'll only get easier. Sometimes, Old Fashioned still has a place. Don't know if an Aegis Class Defense System can take down a good old fashioned Shell, since there's no rocket signature to speak of on it

@wrecker8236

Жыл бұрын

@@Cailus3542 yeah but slugging lead down range is way cheaper than an expensive high tech missiles. You can make 500 shells with same amount of money that one missle would take

My grandfather was a plank owner on USS Louisville CA 28

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Love the Northampton class, I hope you were able to hear some stories!

@mikestanley9176

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 his service on Louisville was all pre war. after that he transferred to sub duty. So not too many stories.

Beautiful 👍🇬🇧. I wish we kept some of our big ships

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Even though I love American battleships and cruisers, I’ve always had a soft spot for the British KGVs and Queen Elizabeths! Shame none were saved at all

@matjov

Жыл бұрын

Warspite should have been preserved.

i just can't believe how big she is!!!😳

Damnit I was in Boston TWICE last summer and I had no idea or I’d have gone to see her!

Saw ship not to long ago. Pretty cool. Hope bit more funding for upkeep. That said almost looks like a battleship lol

I absolutely love battleships and ships with guns in general. I find them super interesting and incredibly impressive looking.

Awesome machine to see maybe one day God bless I'll get the chance to see such great history

@middleman9596

Жыл бұрын

I'm lucky enough to have been multiple times, it's absolutely worth visiting her

Nice - so sad to see what shape she is in. Beautiful ship, thanks for showing it ! ! 🙂😎👍

Cool !

My fav Modern Warship game ship

Need to visit this. Ive been on the Massachusetts at fall river but didnt even know about this

i went on this on my birthday this year

Hopefully, she will be around for a long time!

@JP-uk9uc

Жыл бұрын

More like sink into the mud and roll over because her lower hull is flooded and rotted to the point she'd collapse under her own weight in dry berth just like Texas, the last dreadnaught that fight in both world wars and the battle of Jutland. No money to preserve these amazing machines that secured peace for generations and brought to heel the violence of the axis.

I wish there were still an Alaska around. They looked like baby Iowas, which themselves were my favorite BBs and looked better than every other BB ever except the Bismarcks and the Vittorio Venetos

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Favorite looking BB for me is the Roma actually, the Vittorio Venetos were beautiful ships!

@krakhedd

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 functionally crap but absolute stunners 😝

My dad served on this ship.

my god it looks huge ;D

I love us warships

Nice.

I’ve been to the USS Salem and she needs better maintenance, but I loved seeing her, believe it or not the South Dakota class are very short for there size, both USS North Carolina and USS Washington are longer than them, the North Carolina class were also longer than the Des Moines class

I flew over this yesterday and thought she was a BB. Awesome that I found this video - I was wondering which ship she was!

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Just on looks, she could honestly pass as a BB, she was used as the German Admiral Graf Spee in a film once!

So I live in Massachusetts and never knew about this We goinggg on a field tripppp to my favorite fucking shippppp🤣

it now seems i have a birthday destination :D i have to come from across the country though :(

Nice

Wow, imagine getting hit with 72 of those rounds a min. That’s shits crazy an will f shit up

Ithink of alaskas more as battleships. Just petsonally. Love em

Wow the USS Alaska, the only USS Alaska that I knew of was a submarine so this is really cool thank you you got a new subscriber I love ships

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Glad to see a new subscriber, hopefully making some more museum ship videos soon

@greendragon4058

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 ooh I can't wait

I love the badass history of the USS Massachusetts (BB-59). From initially being made under treaties to prevent an arms race (practically everyone agrees to not make their sh&t overpowered asf) before ww2. And as a consequence, it among other South Dakota class battleships had to compete against literal Japanese and Nazi (and French early in war) dreadnoughts armed to the teeth with the best guns, armor and speed made solely for war. But what makes the USS Massachusetts so special is that during its entire use during ww2. Not one soul on board was lost in combat. Its the ultimate form of going into not just a gun fight, but several gunfights time and time again with a knife and coming out a consecutively flawless victor. Not even a hair on your head being lost.

I love em

This video is educational and mind expanding.

Been there a few times! And the USS Constitution the Navy’s oldest and only wooden vessel left afloat! Plus the submarines in Fall River and Groton!

The Alaska class were monsters

@svgproductions72

9 ай бұрын

It’s a shame they didn’t get to see the service careers they deserved!

They should have kept 1 Baltimore class heavy cruiser. My father was on the St. Paul

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

What beautiful ships, it’s a shame none of those were saved.. but I understand they weren’t unfortunately. Also, a big thank you to your father for his service to our country!

@lunabranwen

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 thanks 👍🙏

I don't know if they do it anymore. But years ago they did a haunted house aboard the ship, where you could travel through the ship from bow to stern. It was a fun experience for the whole family, so I hope it's still going on.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

I think they still do it

@lmo1960

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately no. The volunteer run Haunted Ship was replaced by the commercially run Ghost Ship Harbor, and they went out of business years ago. Paranormal adventures are done on board year round

"Only heavy cruiser in existance" Kirov: 😭

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Lol, if I said just cruiser you could call me out! Kirov technically isn’t a heavy cruiser

@colejosephalexanderkashay683

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 it's a battlecruiser, right?

@alistairdiren5790

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't there a soviet Heavy from the 1950s that still around?

@peterson7082

Жыл бұрын

@@alistairdiren5790 Nope. Mikhail Kutuzov is light

Looks like an awesome ship and looks like fun to go and see when I'm there in the US I might go and see it

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Lots of museum ships on the east coast to visit! If you like battleships, be sure to check out the USS Massachusetts, USS New Jersey and USS North Carolina

Des Moines Class Cruiser

the USS Salem was also used as the german pocket battleship Graf Spee in the 1954 Movie The Battle Of River Plate which saw her flimed along side the Achilles one of the leander class light crusiers in the real battle. the USS Salem looks pretty wreid in the movie however as she was very different to the Graf Spee pocket battleship.

Man if we still had the Prinz Eugen.

Main guns ( 8inch ) were also capable of AA fire with their ( iirc ) 60° vertical maximum elevation.

Now that's a fuckin boat!

My grandfather served on the Massachusetts, apparently his name is carved into the brig.

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

What an interesting story! I’d say go visit the ship and see if the carving is still there

@johndreyer9730

Жыл бұрын

@@svgproductions72 they took him about 15 years ago right before he died, he was shot in the knee in Korea from a fighter and lost his leg later in life after 4 knee replacements. I would love to go see the ship and see his station and all.

I would love to visit this one only it is about 4000 miles from my home

@svgproductions72

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully one day you can!

Don't miss the Newport News CA 148 exhibit. Remember T2.

Don't forget the cruiser USS Long Beach CGN-9. She was 721 feet long.

I work for the gunner of her sister ship, The U.S.S. Des Moines.

@middleman9596

Жыл бұрын

the USS des moines was scrapped in 2007, and was decomissioned in 1991, so either you're lying or used the wrong tense

@leaaronsanchez

Жыл бұрын

@@middleman9596 I know that. He was stationed on it in 1952. he's 93 years old now

@middleman9596

Жыл бұрын

@@leaaronsanchez oh, I read your comment wrong, I though you said you were the gunner of her sister ship not that you work for the gunner of her sister ship, my bad

Technically Averof in Athens is also a Heavy Cruiser but she's a Pre-Dreadnought period

Fun fact: that shell next to the ticket booth and gang way isn’t an 8in shell or even a 16in. It’s taller than I am, weighs more than my car, and I can stand up inside it almost. It’s a 46cm shell. I heard that and I go “but there’s only one ship class that ever used anything that big…” “Yeah, that’s from a Yamato class battleship.”

I’ve slept on this ship before

Thank you!