9 rounds, 2.7k lbs each of HE inbound! Takes a few seconds even at 2500 ft/sec...you'll certainly know when it arrives.....
Why would they have the NJ out in the Pacific in the late 1700s? Most of the Revolutionary War action was on or near the Atlantic Coast, and much of that between Boston and Virginia. Have the NJ do low-speed, economical patrols in that small of an area, making short shrift of the Royal Navy, and the land-based Redcoats within a dozen miles of the coast…
Toured the USS Alabama and the USS Drum this winter at the Battleship memorial park.
Amazing display of aircraft and armored vehicles as well.
Veterans get free admission.
Because the New Jersey was primarily stationed in the Pacific, usually the far east. The basis of the question was that it was a situation like in The Final Countdown, where she's in service and gets sent back in time, so she'd most likely end up in the Pacific. He addressed other scenarios, like having her appear in the Atlantic, but it doesn't really make a difference--she can only operate for something like 60 days on her stores of fuel, and then she's dead weight. Without the bunker fuel to power her gennies, she can't even train the big guns, let alone fire them, so she wouldn't even be useful as a shore battery. (Fun fact: her 16" gun turrets are pinned to prevent them from rotating, but it doesn't matter--the shore power feed can't provide enough juice to turn them. She has to have her gennies up and running to provide the electricity required to do that, and the museum's contract with the Navy prohibits that.)
The story onboard was the turrets were designed to fall out if out if capsized which would, conceivably, right the ship.
Probably to keep those of us below the armor deck, some 12 inches of class A armor, somewhat hopeful in case of disaster....Cause in reality if that gets hot and warps, you're not opening it up....
If I remember correctly, the motors driving the turrets were 200hp...
Probably to keep those of us below the armor deck, some 12 inches of class A armor, somewhat hopeful in case of disaster....Cause in reality if that gets hot and warps, you're not opening it up....
If I remember correctly, the motors driving the turrets were 200hp...
In today's video (about the drydock's dewatering pumps), Ryan said the motors to turn the turrets are 300hp. Them some big ol' motors, but they're dwarfed by the drydock's three 1200hp motors that run the dewatering pumps. Those motors are also original to the drydock, which has been in operation for 103 years...
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