Removing the Battleship's Mast

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1. Ryan , as a metal worker I would suggest you look at having matching plates made and welded to the mast so you could bolt it together. Just thinking of the future when the grand lady goes to the yard next time. I cannot wait to come visit once she come out of the Yard.

2. Would it be possible to weld on a pair of companion flanges where the cuts are made? Make it easy for the next time.

3. Will you maintenance the radar assembly as well? I'm thinking bearing replacements or similar.

4. My guess is there was never a plate on top of the antenna. It was just a scam to get the new guy to climb up there.

5. That big sawzall they used is what we call a German saw. It’s used by Pipefitters, Boilermakers, etc. to cut large diameter pipe. And it is air powered and not battery powered so it is not spark producing

6. Great video! As a nerd I appreciate all the technical details and dimensions on the mast. Thank you battleship NJ crew!

7. In WW II, I believe they had collapsible masts to fit under the Brooklyn Bridge to get to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I know the Essex class did.

8. 5,600 lbs you say thats a massive piece sounds like the kind of weights we get in historical railroading the parts of an engine well most arnt that much indavidually but are massive the major componants are hundreds of lbs or more but the whole weight of our engine is around 400 tons and I belive thats empty, you put 22 tons of coal in the bunker and 23000 gallons in the tender it is even greater plus we have an auxillary tender thats another 20000 gallons I think but yea there is a reason its called heavy industry in the age these things were built pre 1950, our societies engine 765 was built in 1944 so tail end of the war effort but is the same time period, thats a pretty good size mast though

9. Amazing, I used a Transit to set the mast about 60 yrs ago at The Philadelphia Naval yard. Also the running lights. Where are the running lights now?

10. Yea like others have said I am pretty sure the "TACAN plate" is a joke, and the joke is it's not there. Speaking of, would you be interested in suiting up to fetch the mail buoy? We're going to be topside soon and someone has to do it!

11. Someone get our man a comb and some gel 🙁

12. Did the mast have to be removed when the ship was brought to its current location?

13. You found a crane that works! You had been talking about moving to the commercial dock…

14. Think about adding a plow to the front. Not kidding. Would you like to ride a BB when plowing a ship channel? I would. It's sturdy enough, and powerful… Food for thought..??

15. Thanks Ryan, very educational as you usually are.
    You've answer one question I've had in my mind and that is how you reach that high. You have an enourmous great crane!!! Well done.

16. Problems with the airdraft remind me when Oasis of the Seas left Finland and couldn't get under a bridge in Denmark.
    The plan they came up with was to accelerate to 23 knots which, in the shallow channel, would increase draft and get her a tiny bit lower to clear the bridge.

17. I feel your pain regarding mom dusting models in a grossly negligent and destructive manner. RIP my Saturn V model that got knocked over numerous times.

18. For those who do not know, you cannot use cranes to do lifts in high winds either. And we had some high winds this week.

19. The Battleship was given a haircut today

20. Are you going to get bridge traffic stopped just before you pass under it?

21. What crane Company was that?

22. Hey Ryan! Why don't you "flange" the mast so you won't need to cut it off in the future?

23. Mast Plaques pointed to the Mail Buoy…

24. Imagine all the farts that were cut by crew members aboard this ship during her many years of service.

25. Hmm. I would not put it past the Chiefs running the antenna plaque exercise to send the JOs up to find a non-existent plaque. And every JO would perpetuate the story (share the pain). And … speaking of the Walt Whitman flexing, in 1987 they closed the Golden Gate Bridge to traffic and opened it to pedestrians – celebrating 50 years. The bridge staff watched the bridge flex and quickly calculated that a huge crowd spread from railing to railing exceeded the bridges load limit. No more people allowed!

26. I wonder if the joke/gag is that there is nothing to read at the top of the mast.

27. The plate they had to climb up to read sort of sounds like an initiation like snipe hunting – no one will tell you what it said, because there WAS no plate, perhaps.

28. There is no way Ryan fell for that story. He is just doing his duty to propogate the prank on the next generation of newbs.

29. I never served on a IOWA class BATTLESHIP, but I wonder if those folks who told you about the sign on top of the mast were PULLING YOUR LEG(JOKING)? like, "A BUCKET ? of STEAM. or GIG LINE.??

30. I would bet that plate is stored in the Bosons locker next to the reels of "Chow Line" or the cans of "Relative Bearing Grease". ?

31. hey Ryan, there never was a plate that's a noob prank!!! and the jersey girl is far important than traffic it's better to remove the bridge than cut on her!!!

32. I'm almost willing to bet that the "plaque" ontop of the antenna is like sending your wife to the auto parts store for blinker fluid. Or for some people telling the new inmates in jail to make sure they go sign up for the pool on Sundays…

33. The red aircraft warning lights at the top of the pole mast were on only when the ship was moored or at anchor in port, never at sea. At sea, the flight deck lights would be on for flight quarters at night, and aircraft would always make their approach from astern, so the mast was not a concern. But the pole mast has a series of red and white lights mounted on it, in addition to that top pair of red lights, that could be lit in different combinations at sea at night to convey the ship's status (restricted in ability to maneuver, constrained by draft, fishing, towing, aground, etc) to other vessels in compliance with COLREGS. The Missouri showed the fishing lights once, during an exercise, along with some fake nav lights in coffee-can shields, that made us look like a fishing vessel going the opposite direction from our actual course.

    I never climbed to the top of the pole mast when I was assigned to the Missouri, but I did go up on the radar platform on Christmas evening when I was the duty engineering officer, the string of lights from there to the bow weren't working, and the duty electrician was afraid to go up there in the dark. So I went up, replaced the extension cord and saved Christmas.

34. Antenna video. Let us know what all the parts are.

35. Yeah, there isn’t a plate to read on top of the tacan antenna. You were played

36. I'd love to see Ryan's model ship collection. That is, if it survived mom's dusting. ?

37. With New Jersey going into drydock soon, hopefully we get another part of the Battleship movie. ??

38. Awesome

39. I'm wondering if there was actually a plate with something written on it on the antenna, or if that's the Navy version of what we did to new guys in the Army? Sending them to supply for a box of grid squares, looking for the keys for a HMMWV, getting a roll of flight line, or my favorite. Sending them to the comm's NCO looking for a PRC-E7(prick E7). Always fun and games.

40. There never was a plate there. First thing I would do to an NFG is send him looking for something that isnt there. One time I told my new supervisor that the "conniption pin" for our mill was "5 Bards out of squaricity". I got written up because he emailed the whole damn maintenance staff (who thought it was hilarious even to our plant manager) but he also CCd HQ on the email as a heads up for possible downtime. Lucky the guy who responded to the email knew what was going on and told him it was common for us to do this (It wasn't as far as I knew) so he must have laughed at it and took pity on me and didn't demand me getting fired so I just got a write up. NGL I walked around like brad pitt at the end of Inglorious Bastards talking about getting chewed out.

41. I'm pretty sure that TACAN antenna is a dummy; they have 36 antennae arranged in a ring around the outside, and I think 12 more in the centre, and the bit you see is just a radome. Given yours has gone a bit rusty, and has that lifting eye in the centre, that makes me think it's not plastic or fibreglass like you'd expect.

    There's also an even better reason for it being on the top than getting the best range; if there were any metal parts at the same level it would change the radiating pattern of the system in that direction, possibly block it entirely. That would give unreliable or inaccurate readings, and that's not a thing that makes a pilot happy.

42. As a Signalman SM2 on Jersey in the late 1980’s I decided to attach a flag halyard to the very top of this mast while inport Long Beach. My SM1 Leading PO was not very enthusiastic about it as it was an unofficial ship alteration. I thought we needed a place to fly the US flag from the very top of our mast. I went ahead and did it anyway, we flew the flag from this point a few weeks while underway and I thought it looked great. One night we did a full power run which caused a great amount of heat to blow out of the stacks. Next morning we went to put the flag up before sunrise, the halyard was gone all burned away, with a few charred remnants laying all over the Tomahawk Box Launchers. So much for my great idea. I wonder if the block (pulley) I shackled to the mast is still there.

43. Should weld it together with a flange in between that way if it needs to come down in the future it'll be way easier.

44. Are you going to Bremerton? I'd love to see it.

45. Ryan I'm available to reinstall the mast and weld it back to code. Slightly disappointed I couldn't be there to help remove. Besides that awsome work and beautiful battleship. If you need a pro welder let me know.

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