A Drydocked Battleship - What's below the waterline?

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• DR

  @Drachinifel · 1 year ago · pinned

  Pinned post for Q&A :)

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• MI

  @michaelimbesi2314 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Believe it or not, Battleship New Jersey’s propellors are probably even closer to where they were made than the ship itself is! That long building across the street that’s shaped like the letter M is actually the Naval Foundry and Propeller Center, where the US Navy has made its propellers since the 1920s. (The building to the north and east of the drydock)

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• AL

  @alphaxalex1634 · 1 year ago

  Hey Drach I don’t know if you will ever see this but I hope one day for you to do a trip to my hometown of Hartlepool for a couple videos. We have the world’s second oldest ship still afloat (HMS Trincomalee) and we have the Heugh Gun Battery, the only shots to be fired at the December 1914 German raiders on Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool. <br><br>They are a couple pieces of history that aren’t well known and I hope someone like yourself can help out by showing off these rare pieces of British history.

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• DA

  @darrellsmith4204 · 1 year ago

  Can we take a moment and appreciate Drach&apos;s drone flying skills?

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• BR

  @brettpasquinelli7033 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Hi Drach. You mention you&apos;re not sure why the space between the skegs is called the Holland tunnel but I&apos;ll give a shot for the reason due to its American lingo nature...and well I&apos;m an American. &nbsp;The battleship is of course named for the state New Jersey, now berthed in Camden NJ. One of the main throughfares into New York City and out of New Jersey is the Holland Tunnel across the Hudson River to Manhattan Island. &nbsp;So it may just be the nick name the crew or yard workers years ago gave this void given it&apos;s resemblance to a long tunnel and its remained that since.

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• BU

  @bullnukeoldman3794 · 1 year ago

  To my dying day I shall remember walking under my 17,000 ton cruiser in drydock. &nbsp;We had just landed it on the blocks earlier that day (completed around 1500 that afternoon) and were in the Engineering Logroom for a meeting around 1930 that evening when we felt something similar movement from a wake of a ship passing by closely. &nbsp;Then we realized that, &quot;Hey! &nbsp;We&apos;re in drydock! &nbsp;WTH?&quot;. &nbsp;We beat it out of there up to the Main Deck and saw the hoses/cables/etc. connecting the ship to the drydock whipping up and down, the ramps from deck to drydock rattling and jumping. &nbsp;An earthquake was occurring. &nbsp;After this event was over, the Duty Engineer Officer decided that we needed to go down in dock and inspect things for damage or derangement. &nbsp;Four of us went down with US Navy cheap flashlights to look at things, hoping that the blocks were still in proper position hold that mass above our heads. &nbsp;Looked good, didn&apos;t waste time down there. &nbsp;Upon checking the list/trim bubble indicators in Main Control we saw that the 17,000 ton ship had rotated 3/4 of a degree on the blocks during the quake.

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• HI

  @hisdadjames4876 · 1 year ago

  Once again, Drach makes a fascinating video out of, quite literally, watching paint dry! Thanks👍

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• JD

  @jdrobertson42 · 1 year ago

  I’m just imagining a cartoon seagull chomping on a chunk of lard and calmly watching an out of control battleship rocket past.

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• JA

  @Jay-Gonz-907 · 1 year ago

  On the Battleship New Jersey&apos;s channel I&apos;d seen a picture that Ryan put in one of the videos of Him and Drach on the front of the New Jersey holding each other with the arms out just like Jack and Rose did in Titanic! 😂 haha it was too funny!

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• AM

  @amandarhodes4072 · 1 year ago

  What&apos;s bellow the waterline of a battleship?<br><br>Short answer= More battleship.<br><br>Long answer= hull plating, keel, drainage holes, sonar equipment, sacrificial zinc pads, rudder, propeller, propeller shaft, shaft alignment strut, torpedo tubes (sometimes), auxiliary rudder, paravane towing rod (usually mounted under the bow nose) Bilge keel stabilisers... ... ... more battleship.

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• CO

  @Cookechristophercharlesjohn · 1 year ago

  Thank you Sir Drach for helping me through troubles and as I paint my 1/1200 fleets!

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• YT

  @ytlas3 · 1 year ago

  During New Jersey&apos;s first sea trial in Sept &apos;82, the second day she started her full power run. &nbsp;Soon the New Jersey ran down the tail end of a storm. We were working back in the laundry, and I was in the section with the washing machines (port side). It was bad enough with the deck vibrating heavily during the full power run, but once New Jersey caught the storm and started to get pushed around, it became kind of treacherous back there. I was getting tossed between the washing machines and the hot &nbsp;water accumulation tank. Finally my leader who had been working in the dry cleaning/clothes folding compartment came out and said &quot;screw this.&quot; 🙂

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