Start at the bottom...
Until we meet again. Now I have a goal to see the other 3 Iowas. :)
We didn't get to go out to the bow, the JROTC Navy & Marines from Rutgers University were having a graduation celebration onboard.
Armored air intake for the boilers.
Real wood decking.
All handmade.
Incredible!
8 foot long model.
Top down view.
16" turret cutaway.
5" turret cutaway.
Montana class model. These were never built but would succeed the Iowa class.
Tamiya 1/350 model. Guess what's on my model bench next?
Proposed phase 2 version of the ship. She would have carried helicopters and AV-8B Harriers.
Museum tool storage.
5" shell elevator in one of the rooms.
Scale for packages.
Onboard Post Office.
More timbers for emergency hull repairs. Think how old this wood is!
It was like everyone stepped off and never returned.
Tooling drawers.
Same. How would you like to work under a high pressure steam pipe?
I reached into an access hatch in the hallway to snap a pic of the toolroom lathe.
Even the signage was extra cool.
Tool room lathe. This is the part of the shop the museum still uses for repairs.
So cool.
Vertical turret lathe.
Lathe.
Electric motor winder. There are something like 2,000 motors onboard.
Looked like it did as delivered in 1942.
Machine shop!
Note the different floor colors. Blue was enlisted if I recall correctly.
YUM!
CWIS gun aimed into Camden in the back, Tomahawk missile tubes in the foreground.
(We had to pop back up on deck to find Skyler. He wandered off below deck and tried texting us in the metal hull. He learned that cell signals don't go through steel.)
Wood timbers for stuffing into battle damage to the hull.
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