Bow to Stern: Walking the Battleship's Main Deck

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  @cleverusername9369 · 4 years ago

  I love how much Ryan knows about not only his own Iowa class battleship, but the other Iowas as well. Very impressive depth of knowledge.

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• BD

  @bdrzentest · 1 year ago

  Lol I love Ryan's straight-forward attitude, like "I dunno why the hell you guys want this but whatever..." So honest and refreshing. 😂😂

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• RI

  @RickLowrance · 4 years ago

  I really liked the walking tour.  Hopefully you will do more of that.  For those of us that have never been on the ship it really ties it all together.

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• DO

  @doughudgens9275 · 4 years ago

  To answer your question, the walking tour helps visualize where things are in relation to other parts of the ship. &nbsp;As you were going, I kept remembering the videos you did about that part of the ship and the tour helped place the locations in my mind.<br>In the summer of ‘80 I toured the Missouri in Bremerton, but that was a long time ago and she was still in the mothballed fleet, so this video helped me a lot!

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  @josephpelletier9494 · 4 years ago

  Ryan seems a little perplexed as to why people want a walking tour of the deck, but I promise it&apos;s highly appreciated and helps a lot of people get some context of scale and layout

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• LT

  @lt_davis · 4 years ago

  Some of my favorite videos are the ones that start with Ryan saying “because you requested it for some reason” <br>They always turn out way more interesting than expected

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• JU

  @julieenslow5915 · 4 years ago

  Ryan - &nbsp;some of us are disabled, and getting up on to the ship or walking around things is just not possible. This walk is as &nbsp;close as I could get - even if I were on the shore at this time. Thank you for this.

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  @lilorbielilorbie2496 · 4 years ago

  I was working in the Navy Base in Long Beach, CA. in 1986 and I was lucky enough to see both the New Jersey and the Missouri in there at the same time. The Missouri was in the dry dock and to see something that big with no water holding it up was something else.

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• SC

  @SCIPIO-AMERICANVS · 6 months ago

  I get that it was probably just traditional but the New Jersey flying the Navy Jack to identify itself as a military vessel is funny. Like someone would look at this ship and go “I think thats a tug boat”.

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  @SoySauce4Lube · 4 years ago

  i absolutely love history. especially www history and war history in general. I like to think us history nerds can spot out own. I know this channel is about the Iowa but man Ryan really is the star. I just love seeing this dude living his best life. you can just tell he loves this ship and his job with all his heart. he bring such life to the minute details of the ship. my favorite time was when all the time stamps was this dude just a picture of this dude cheesin like a kid on Christmas. I wish I could just hangout on this ship with you and try to soak all your info in. you&apos;re a gem

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• TR

  @troporobo · 4 years ago

  Hey Ryan, I just discovered your channel and am really enjoying it. &nbsp;At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKimuGp2LSs&amp;t=834">13:54</a> you show the refueling-at-sea system, which thrilled me, because I was the designer! &nbsp;Yep, in the 80s I was a new engineer at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard when BB62 came in for recommissioning. &nbsp;I was in the structural section, and got the OK to employ the then-new computer capacity we had acquired for finite element analysis that the old timers didn’t yet trust. &nbsp;I was there on deck when we put it in. &nbsp;Good times . . .

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  @mokdumoknonsharrall1868 · 4 years ago

  @Battleship New jersey: &nbsp; Thanks for doing this walk-through! &nbsp; &nbsp;It may seem weird to Ryan, but those of us watching from home only see pieces of the ship in the videos, so this walk along the starboard side gives us better context for where parts of the ship are, relative to each other, and a context for the whole length of the and size of ship.

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