I do enjoy SLM's look at museum ships, because it's not just another historian, it's an ordinary enthusiast like the rest of us (That IS a compliment, I promise!). Between the fresh paint, new decking, the weather and the Mobile Bay location, Alabama looks absolutely stunning. She's definitely a ship that gets a lot of passionate TLC from the curators. The USS Drum might be a good ship to do a video on; sometimes the smaller, less headline exhibits can get forgotten when there's a big headline piece, and yet Drum seems to have had a pretty eventful career.

I went to see her in the mid to late 90's. She seems to be much better cared for now. The USS Drum was nearby, but closed for some reason. What struck me about the Alabama was that it is so huge on the outside and so cramped inside.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

That was the challenge of the South Dakota class, they could finally slap the armor and armament they wanted onto the class but congress still wanted to stay around 36,000 tons

Excellent video My Father was on the Alabama from 1941-1945

Sea Lord, I live in Slidell, Louisiana! Hey fellow LA native! But, I've been on the Mighty 'A' twice. Once, back in 2014, as a Cub Scout, where I slept on her triple bunks just like the sailors that once served on her did! The second time was actually December 4, 2021 and I knew infinitely more knowledge of all her components because I play the console version of WoWs. Both times were very fun and I highly recommend any and all naval history buffs go down to Mobile and see her. She's absolutely worth it and worth scrutinizing every last rivet of her glorious steel hide! Also, that tunnel to get there is fun! Edit: The last time I went nearly two years ago, we went when they were performing a live-fire test (with prop planes too, no less) of the 20mm Oerlikon autocannons. They were much louder than I anticipated!

@PhantomP63

7 күн бұрын

Sounds like you visited during one of the reenactment events. They happen every other month throughout the year- dates are posted on the Battleship Memorial Park’s website.

Thanks for the tour video. Someday if I can manage to land my feet in the US, I will definitely visit one of those battleship museums. I really love real-steel ships on WoWs, no matter how bad they are in the game. Visiting one of them in the real world will be very exciting, like a dream come true 😊.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

It’s a great experience!

I'm so glad yall got to make a video on the USS Alabama, I've been visiting that ship for just about 13+ years every summer. Have yall got to check out the SR-71 in the hangar or any other planes while there?

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Yes we walked through at the start, great exhibit

Awesome. We were there with our HOPAS group back on Memorial Day!

I really like your roadmovie trips, including a shiptour. Is what makes your channel to stand out.

ALLLLABAMA!!!!! Ah man what a classic American Battleship. Love it in World of Warships, and it's history. Thanks for this vid! I hope to see this ship one day

Since you like road trips, come to SC and visit the Yorktown and the fleet type sub in Charleston. I’d love a video on them.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

It’s on the list😊

definitely will watch any ship walkthroughs you do. we enjoy them.

went down to Battleship Cove in Massachusetts, and saw the USS Josephy P Kennedy (Gearing class), USS Lion Fish (Balao class sub) and USS Massachusetts (same as Alabama) and man after playing World of Warships....Gearings are sooo much bigger then the game makes you think. which makes the Battleships absolute monsters. i saw Missouri @ Pearl many yrs ago, but forgot how big they really are. now to get Mass in game =\

It's been ages since I've been the the USS Alabama. We stopped there a few times back in the late 70s and early 80s while traveling on vacation but I haven't been since.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

They keep her in great shape!

back in 03, i was stationed at NAS Pensacola, on the N.A.T.T.C area, and i actually wish that i got the time to go and visit the Alabama, she is such a beautiful ship

S-tier content very cool - never considered this was possible :)

Slight correction, the bottom of the turret is called the powder flats. The space between the turret and the powder magazines is called the annular space.

She looks in great shape compared to some others , thanks for sharing!

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard her sister unfortunately hasn’t had as good of a time

Nice one. Thanks for the tour. Hopefully one day i get to see the Missouri. For now i will settle for WOW's.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Missouri is on my list as well!

My daughter and I love visiting the USS North Carolina which is in my home city of Wilmington NC.

Battle ships are freaking impressive. I mean you really have to be up close or on one to really know what they are like. I'm lucky enough to have been up close and on several. USS Missouri, USS Massachusetts, USS North Carolina and USS New Jersey. It has been years since being on any of them though. Most of those ships had a rough go of it around 30 years ago but luckily they all survived. If you ever find yourself in MA or RI then try and take a day and go to Battleship Cove in Fall River MA

Great video Mount.

Thanks for the tour video.

Thank you for the tour.

There is another tunnel that goes under the bay it's only a 2 lane road but it'll take you straight to the USS Alabama if you're ever in a traffic jam in Mobile.

Ahhh there’s my girl the mighty/lucky A. I see my girl get recognition I give like; I am a simple man

Great video !

I’m currently out at the USS Batfish in Muskogee, OK & would love to come see the ‘Bama & the out to see the Iowa. Good stuff SLM!

Visited the Alabama several times in the 70's and 80s, back when the Drum was still in the water. Plan to visit again soon.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

I remember the first time we went, Drum was still in the water

Can you please do USS Laffey and USS Yorktown at Patriots point Charleston South Carolina. If you want to see you last Ellen M summer class destroyer in the world! You got to go see Laffey! If you want to see an Essex class carrier well the second Essex class carrier and the oldest aircraft carrier left in the US museum fleet. You gotta go see Yorktown!!!

most kids get lost in a target or a walmart the only time i got genuinely lost as a kid was aboard that ship whilst on a trip with the boy scouts we spent the night and i used to sleepwalk i woke up and had no clue what to do lol but luckily i managed to find my bunk again

Going here Monday so need to watch this again so I can see what I’ll be seeing.

Pretty sure that the barbettes were just homogenous steel armour there Sealord, composite armours were quite a ways in the future.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

I think I meant to say Krupp instead of Composite looking back at it

USS Texas! She is in dry dock now. Drach went in Feb.

Living in Detroit, I don't have a lot of ships to visit. There's the USS Edson (F. Sherman class DD) in Saginaw and the Little Rock (Cleveland class CL) and The Sullivans (Fletcher class DD) in Buffalo.

@christhompson9140

Жыл бұрын

USS Silversides in west side of Michigan. And seeing U505 at science and industry museum in Chicago is well worth the trip.

We hit the Alabama on our way back from Disney in 2017. Great ship and the tanks and planes on the lot were nice too.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

They do have ALOT there

Hell yes. Please keep doing this

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully will be able to!

Slight correction, the South Dakota's were still treaty Battleships.

Sea lord you need to visit battleship cove to see the uss Massachusetts or go see the Wisconsin in Norfolk.

Definitely cool to see how the Alabama is displayed. Definitely looks in better shape than the Mass.

Great tour vid Sea Lord. Some time ago I bought Alabama in WOWS after watching your video. Now you're visiting her for real. Hopefully you could visit one of the Iowa class sisters one day.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

We’ve been to the Wisconsin before, might try to make it back!

I saw her when I was. Kid it was super cool I still have the post card from that shop

HAHA man I live here, you ever come back and need the alternate routes let me know. Traffic in the tunnel is like that every day from 4:30pm to 6pm usually.

Use to visit her and park a few times when I delivered in Mobole and had time.

first time i heard someone say golly in years..enjoyed the vid

Me and my wife are going to visit her on our vacation this year

Hope you get to see USS WI some day. No other ship like an Iowa class BB. Thanks!

Just checked and the USS Clagamore was recycled. I don’t know any other WWII Submarines that can be toured. Sad. That woulda made a fascinating video. They’re so small on the inside.

@sirboomsalot4902

Жыл бұрын

WW2 Subs are probably the most numerous type of museum ship in the US lol

Wish I knew you were coming out.. I would've met up with you at the park!

amazing ship cool video

The US has done a much better job preserving these ships than we have here in the UK. There are no KGV/Nelson/Dreadnought etc ships preserved, which is a real shame. Warspite is one of the most decorated ships in the history of the Royal Navy, but she was still scrapped, along with the last battleship ever built, the Vanguard. The big reason is how desperately their steel was needed after the war, I suspect. The US came out of WWII in much better shape than Europe, for obvious reasons, so it could afford to keep these ships around. I'd love to see one some day.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

I still can’t believe that at least Warpspite wasn’t saved or at least one of the KGVs. It’s a tragedy.

@kingmobius9379

Жыл бұрын

Great Britain was broke at the time selling steel and land was it's biggest ways to make a quick buck plus GB needed to almost revise most of their military other than their airforce. It is a shame that GB strike all of those BBs but decisions had to be made and (I may be wrong) I believe Great Britain still owes the US funds from WWll.

@davidmarquardt9034

10 ай бұрын

@@sealordmountbatten At the end of the war, England was on the edge of bankruptcy. They were still rationing afterward, London and other city's had to be rebuilt. It took at least 10 years, to even 15 years to recover. And of course, like the French, Germans, Dutch, Japanese, they also lost their overseas colonies. They had no time or resources for history.

@sealordmountbatten

10 ай бұрын

@@davidmarquardt9034 I can understand downsizing the fleet, but not saving one lone ship, like the Warspite, seems to be a tragedy.

@davidmarquardt9034

10 ай бұрын

@@sealordmountbatten I hear what your saying, but back then history was not a priority. It's like the line from the song, "You don't know what you've got; until it's gone". And then it's too late.

Did you meet Drachinifel by any chance? You should probably sync up, that would be interesting if do ship guides from different perspectives.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Nope! Don’t think he was around

If you have the opportunity, take the curators tour of the New Jersy with Ryan sometime. Its worth the trip

FIRST! I was just there a couple of years ago, one of the coolest experiences of my life. Not fat guy friendly, though. 😅

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’m a bit too chunky for the ship as well lol

Powerful ship , it's very hard to build this ship

Was there in May

Love this... cool tour. Did they have ac back in the day?

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Don’t believe so

Kinda sucks that the museum blocked off each room so you couldn’t actually go in them like the uss New Jersey .. the Alabama is an amazingly well maintained and well presented display ship, but I’d rather be able to go into each room and see what everything looks like instead of having to stand at the threshold of the compartment and look in on a well presented manikin presentation lol

I would say visit the Mass, but her deck rott is a disgrace. Good job, Fall River !! #Battleship Cove

@15Med3

Жыл бұрын

yea the Deck is rough and the seaplanes arent mounted. But the ship is fun to explore...total maze though holy hell. JPK was closed (gearing) unfortunately (inside at least) as of June/July 2023

I believe the name of the Sub in Charleston is the USS Clagmore.

Would love to see you go the USS Yorktown and laffy

The Alabama's guns are 6 feet shorter than the Iowa's, the difference between 45 and 50 calibers.

I live about 35 minutes from her… they are going to be selling pieces of the old teak deck from her the proceeds will be used to pay for the deck replacement!

Roll Tide!

lets take her for a spin sometime at sea that would be cool.

Roll Tide Roll !

Was the AC effective on the Alabama? When my wife and I went on the North Carolina in August it was so freaking hot.

ive slept on the uss Alabama with the boy scouts its a whole other thing ant night

Next week will be a USS Drum vid?

I dont understand why WG has never put the actual south dakota in game

I saw the Hale Boggs Bridge there. You're South of New Orleans, then?

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Maybe

imagine shooting those guns!..

Ya got any time to maybe visit the USS Texas?

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Well she’s in dry dock right now sooo

come to australia

You visit the movie star of herself Alabama playing as USS Missouri in Tommy lee jones film at that time the Iowa were not as museums Alabama played as USS Indianapolis 1991 mission of the sharks is a good one and crappy 2016 nic cage film

USS Wisconsin

boat

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

Big boat

when you said powder you mean charges

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

For which section? The five inch guns or the 16inch guns?

Roll Tide

Isn't it the lucky A? Know it's not the mighty a.

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

According to the museum it’s Mighty A

@clmwrx

Жыл бұрын

​@@sealordmountbattenhmm. Well the musem has also called it the lucky a and other sources also call it the lucky a. Apparently both are nicknames for it.

Why music? It just makes it harder to understand your speech and hurts the ears :(

@sealordmountbatten

Жыл бұрын

The music during the walkthrough of the ship is turned down by -28db, while my audio track is turned up by 8db, I’m not sure how it can over power my voice. Unless you have a very odd set up on whatever device you’re watching on

@AiDecc

Жыл бұрын

@@sealordmountbatten It doesn't overpower, I find it as unnecessary and unpleasant disruption. I came here to hear what you have to say. I listen music somewhere else. And I don't like ppl speaking when I listen to some songs :)

USS Wisconsin