Take A Walking Tour: Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62, Museum & Memorial in Camden, NJ Pt 01

The battleship USS New Jersey is the longest US battleship ever built, she earned 19 campaign battle stars during her nearly 50 year history and fought in World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Desert Storm.   She is the most decorated battleship in US Navy history.   During sea trials following her modernization in the 1960's, New Jersey set the battleship world speed record by achieving a speed of 35.2 knots (62.5 km/h; 40.5 mph), maintaining this speed for six hours.

I made a road trip to visit the USS New Jersey BB-62, Museum & Memorial in Camden, NJ.  On this trip I delivered a large museum quality model of the battleship USS California BB-44.  There are 7 parts to this video & I will upload them in order.

This long with other items was a gift/donation that I wanted to make to support the USS New Jersey BB-62, Museum & Memorial.   On my 2nd day of the trip I made it to Camden, NJ just before 10am.   I made contact with the curator of exhibits, Aliana Noland.   Thankfully they had a elevator which made it easier to bring the model and other items onboard.

Later as I was taking myself on a self guided tour I met Ryan Szimanski Curator, Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62, Museum & Memorial.  This is the 2nd Iowa Class battleship that I have taken a tour on and so far one of the best US warships to tour.   The first one was the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, VA back in 2015.   She is still in much of her World War II configuration like the North Carolina & Alabama battleships.    The New Jersey went through a great deal of Modernization in the 1980's to include the Phalanx, Close-In, Weapon System, Tomahawk & Harpoon, Missiles.   There is much more open to see on the New Jersey than was open on the USS Wisconsin when I visited her in 2015.

Sleep over on Battleship New Jersey.   They offer a program where you may spend the night onboard the ship.  I believe this was suspended due to the Covid-19 virus, but will start back up soon.   Use the link below to contact the ship if your are interested in sleeping onboard a real US battleship~!

There are 4 tours available to do on the New Jersey.   You have color coded lines on the deck to follow the tour on your own or you can take a guided tour.   I spent 3-4 hours doing one tour and did not finish it.   I ran into a problem with my camera in running out of memory and battery life.   I had do spend a 1/2 hour in my SUV, transferring video/photos to my laptop & recharging my camera battery.  If you really want to see everything on this ship I would advise that you give yourself a couple days to do so.

On my 2nd day I visited Philly to see the Protected Cruiser USS Olympia & the World War II submarine USS Becuna.  I will upload videos of that visit along with those of the Independence Seaport Museum in Philly and other places that I visited soon.   I was going to Myrtle Beach & Patriots Point on this trip, but I had to change my plans with a surprise family visit coming up.  You should take a whole day/evening to enjoy the Spruce Street Harbor Park.  They have so much in the way of all kinds of foods, music, picnic areas, games for the family, boat rentals & more.  I did not know about this & was limited to less than 3 hours before I had to be on the road.

I have included some links here to help you if you decide to visit any of these attractions. 

https://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia
https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/attractions/spruce-street-harbor-park/
https://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/
http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/62a.htm

I would like to thank curators Aliana Noland & Ryan Szimanski, plus all the volunteer crew members for providing a secure home for our donation of the model of the USS California BB-44 and other related items to their museum.  It was important to me that these items be shared with the public rather than end up in someone's home or worst.  I highly recommend if anyone is going to this area to make time to tour the Battleship USS New Jersey Museum & Memorial.

Be prepared for a good bit of walking when you tour the battleship.   There are 4 color arrow tours painted on the decks.   I did just one tour, but did not finish the entire tour because of camera issues.

I hope that you enjoy this recipe and check out my other recipes/videos that I will be doing.   Have a great day & life my friends.   Please subscribe to my channel, share, leave a comment and leave a up vote.   Let me know what you think and/or what video that you would like for me to make.  While in Camden I found a great local place to eat.   The Cherry Hill Diner.   Absolutely fantastic food, prices and people.

Enjoy and I do hope you have lots of fun~!