The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift

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Post by spchampion2 » Fri, May 03, 2024, 12:47 AM UTC

Re: The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift

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Post by gnabgib » Fri, May 03, 2024, 12:50 AM UTC

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Post by PaulHoule » Fri, May 03, 2024, 1:02 AM UTC

The New Jersey is my favorite museum ship by far.

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Post by TheCleric » Fri, May 03, 2024, 1:11 AM UTC

The Battleship New Jersey Museum puts out some great videos on their channel answering questions and showing what they’re doing in the dry dock:

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Post by radishingr » Fri, May 03, 2024, 3:53 AM UTC

I think they may still have a few tickets to go visit the ship while she is in drydock (as in walk under the ship).

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Post by bell-cot » Fri, May 03, 2024, 9:28 AM UTC

"Face-Lift" is a very poor descriptive of the work being done.

Taking a 45,000-ton ship out of the water is expensive, and is done only when the bottom of it needs serious work.

A better description of the work might be "bottom inspection, rust and leak repairs, and replacing the undercoating".