The SS Red Oak Victory is a historic ship located in Richmond, California in the heart of the famous Richmond-Kaiser Shipyards of World War II. The Red Oak Victory is the last remaining ship of the 747 built at this shipyards. For information about visiting our ship, becoming a volunteer crew-member, making a donation, or attending one of our special events visit our website at www.redoakvictory.us.
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Which Mark is it? Is it 3 inch Mark 10? I tried to find information online, but there doesn't seem to be anything.
Mk 22 but incomplete in that it doesn't have the ammunition handling system.
@@fredklink4492 Cheers, thanks for a quick response :)
Cool. 😎📻
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Dumb question, that looks bigger than the a 50cal rifle, Is it because it says " BMG " ?
That's actually a good question. In Naval gun terminology the "caliber" is barrel length divivied by the bore diameter. Therefore, the barrel on a 3"/50 caliber is fifty times three inches in length or 150" which is 12.5 feet. The gun on our stern is a 5"/38 caliber. That makes the barrel 190 inches or just under 16 feet in length.
@@fredklink4492 I just went crosseyed Lol. Thanks, liked & Subscribed 👍 FJB🇺🇸 edit:I just watched your Home video, I'm in Walnut Creek, Gramps helped park the " mothball fleet " as a kid is was awesome to drive over bridge and see 1000 ships there, sad to see they are mostly gone.
Had the opportunity to work on the American Victory in Tampa. Got to take a test cruise. Engineering is hot 🥵
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I love this! Does the Red Oak have a call sign? And what frequency/band are you operating on? Would love to make contact.
Email us with your contact information at [email protected] and we'll pass your request on to our radio officer.
My Grandfather served on victory and liberty ships during WWII as a member of the naval armed guard. He later worked on the Lane Victory during his retirement. We lost him in early 2020. But I still have a fond memory of visiting him at the Lane Victory that is moored in San Pedro CA. I hope to see the Red Oak sail again in the future.
Thank you, John. Always good to hear from a member of the Victory ship family!
George you did a great job of explaining the gun and how it is managed.
You're sending a "radio gram" of "test?" "VVV"? Be interesting, tho, to see a tour of the equipment in the radio spaces.
Yes, we send radiograms. They're sent from our ship to a shore station and from there they are transcribed into an email that has the header, footer, and format of an original Radiogram form. That is emailed to the recipient. We'd love to have you tour the ship. We're open every Sunday 10-4. The radio room is not always in operation but it will be on October 9 for our Fleet Week Pancake Breakfast. www.bit.ly/ROVFltWk22 for tickets.
She came out of moth balls in Oct 1966 and was reactivated by Albina Engine and Machine. I worked in the yard during reactivation, when it came time to raise steam I worked as fire man water tender and oiler for dock and river trials, along with doing 13 other Victory ships. Don Benson
Thanks for the story, Don, and for your time on Red Oak Victory.
Should they sound clankity and squeaky? I’d imagine not. Repair and refurbishment are probably needed, and grease. I’d love to help accomplish that. It would be awesome to work on them and be a member of the operating gun crew for demonstrations. Problem is location. I rode the Lane Victory from Los Angeles Harbor to Catalina Island some years back. That was fantastic! Riding on steam power is so quiet and smooth, at least up on the main deck. And in the coastal waters of Southern California in July, it doesn’t get much better than that. Forget cruise ships, this is the way to cruise! Even though it was dense fog in the harbor that morning, it “burned” off quickly. A slight swell in the harbor in the fog (less than a quarter mile viz, I think) got me just a bit queezy. Out some 15 miles, you get to a point of nearly nothing but ocean visible in all directions. A few sailboats at distance. And then we were attacked by German T-6 Texans. 😀. Too bad there couldn’t be a Fletcher or Sumner class destroyer (museum ship) to sail along. Anyway, sailing on the Red Oak Victory will be something you’ll definitely enjoy. 👍
The traverse and elevation mechanisms are gear-driven mechanical devices and hence they make a fair amount of noise. However, much of the noise you hear in this video is simply play in the handwheel grips and is not coming from the gun mechanism itself.
A few of our casings ended up in various places, as 'butt cans,' for cigarettes.
Very cool! I’m looking forward to visit in the future
You should reach out to the Battleship New Jersey channel. Could help get views on here and maybe some some donations flowing. Also dont turn the comments off on every video. You have lot of history buffs that like to ask questions or give suggestions for video ideas. Anyways can't wait to see more videos.
We never turn off comments on videos for just that reason. We do retain good relationships with our fellow historic ships on a personal level in many cases and through the Historic Naval Ships Association (hnsa.org). Thanks for your interest and support!
@@redoakvictoryak235 thanks for your reply. The comments are off on your last 3 newest videos.
@@warvamp2 For some unknown (to me!) reason, if you mark your video as "made for kids" they turn off commenting automatically. The latest video is indeed made for kids as part of an educational grant we received so I am not going to change the setting on that one. But I did change the settings on the other two.
@@redoakvictoryak235 ok no problem just bringing it to your attention
Very cool. Great upload.
This naval artillery is still inuse by some countries.And it's a gun that is used for training by the Navy in many countries.
Do those deck guns still fire live rounds?
No, they do not. We're working on a protocol for doing a loading/blank fire demostration of the 3".
Aim that thing at Pelosi home crack off a few
Outstanding! Please, more from the radio room if possible! Thanks again and good luck with the ship!
My dad said he shot some of those in WWII on his ship the USS Comet AP 166.
"a special wrench by hand" a spanner wrench lol
Please keep this beauty alive!! One day ive got to see her!
Why aren't the crank handles opposed like on a bicycle?
Because someone a long time ago assembled them incorrectly. Fixing that is on our TODO list!
@@redoakvictoryak235 Lol, I though it was designed like that for a reason!
One is a steel wheel the other is solid brass, folks would steal the brass all that is normally left are the steel wheels that are oriented in the same manner
@@willcouldkill Why are the wheels different materials?
Bugger was hoping for live fire.
Retired GMCS , second ship , Yarnell CG 17 , we had two twin auto loaders , hated those things , make you deaf real quick
In Spain we still use them (We call them 3"/50 Mk22), in the Serviola-class patrol boats, albeit with some modifications. I had the honor of being its gunner for two years (2016-2018), it's a really nice and sturdy gun, sadly its sights are quite obsolete for today's standards. The one I used was made, if I recall correctly, in 1942's Brooklyn.
Interesting to hear that the old cannons are still in use! Thanks for watching our video.
aca en mexico tenemos lo mas viejo en cuanto armamento... lo cual no importa por que para necesitariamos eso?
Wow! Thanks for sharing
Cool gun. Lubed it up and cleaned the bird shit off it
Thanks. It was a little more work than just cleaning and lubricating. Since this video was made we have restored the breech to operation so we can load and eject dummry rounds.
Is this more historically accurate to her service and the closed mount was a retrofit postwar?
Both open and closed mounts were used in WW II. Closed mounts were used on warships, particularly destroyers. Cargo vessels used an open mount and that's why we're converting the gun to the open configuration.
Oh foot triggers so that’s how the 5 inch/38 cal gun mounts fires
Foot trigger,lanyard and solenoid as well
I hope this is in the SS united state's future
that ship will never sail again
@@gearheaddave9639 year old comment party pooper
@@gearheaddave9639 sadly I also agree on that..
This ship came out of moth balls in Oct 1966 for use in Nam. I worked for Albina Engine and Machine, Port Land Oregon, in the yard as a machinist reactivating it. Upon reactivation I worked as Fireman, Water Tender and Oiler dock side, along with doing dock and river trials along with 13 other Victory ships. I have company documentation in my name to that effect on the Red Oak Victory as well as 13 other Victory ships I was on. I do not know when it went back into moth balls. Don Benson Central Machine _ _ _ Fabrication centralmachinefab dot co&
Don, thanks for that bit of history. The ship went into the mothball fleet in Suisun Bay in 1968. Last year's light off ended 50 years of inactivity.
Years ago I was part of the group that went out to the Mothball Fleet to get parts and equipment for the radio room. I drove a truckload of parts from the Mothball docks back to Richmond to the ship. Times changed and I drifted from ham radio and visiting the ship. Great to see the progress that I truly though would likely never happen. Hope to come with my buddy that got me involved and visit the ship someday.
You are certainly welcome any time!
Great to see she's still got a pulse. Perhaps one day her blades will spin again. I'd love to see her underway in years to come.
That is our goal and the reason we are doing this work on the engines. Thank you for your interest in the ship!
the propeller turned just a little in one shot.
Great to see. Thanks to all who contributed to this effort. I served on a Victory ship 1970-1971 USN. Originally SS Escanaba Victory, converted into a refrigerated stores ship in 1953 and commissioned as the USS Regulus (AF-57). Homeported San Francisco/Alameda it served with distinction in the Pacific fleet until being run aground and destroyed by typhoon Rose in Hong Kong, August 1971. Though a radioman, we were were short staffed in engine room during our WestPac deployment and I served a few weeks doing engine room watches (MMOW) reading gauges and crawling down "shaft alley" to make sure all the bearings were being lubricated. Hot as hell, but an impressive piece of machinery. I look forward to visiting the Red Oak Victory. Where will it be docked?
Thanks for your service! I hope you can come visit us some day and share some sea stories.
Great work everyone! I'm really proud of all that you have done! I look forward to returning to the engineering crew after I retire.
Thank you so much for the great restoration work on the Red Oak Victory. They built those great WWII ships to run well and last over time. Looking forward to visiting the ship and enjoying your pancake breakfasts. Long live the ROV and the gentlemen and women who will keep it alive and well into the centuries!
Our first pancake breakfast fundraiser after we return will be September 9. Hope to see you there. For tickets and information: www.bit.ly/rovpancake18
Its taken 20 years of hard work by the volunteer crew of the SS Red Oak Victory (ex-USS Red Oak Victory AK 235) to reach this milestone in the ship's restoration. Congratulations