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get me Smith, 87, said, describing the emotions she felt as a mammoth American flag was hoisted aloft during the shifting of colors be- fore the Battleship New Jersey left the dock March 21. Smith, a writer who lives in New Jersey, was on hand in 1999, too, when the ship made its way through the Panama Canal, headed toward its new career as a museum The most decorated battleship in the history of the United States is done with war. The engines of the ves- sel, the Battleship New Jersey, are no longer per- mitted to operate, by or- der of the U.S. Navy. But on a windy after- noon in March, tugboats pushed and pulled the ship away from land for the first time in more than 20 years.
It left its berth in Camden, New Jersey, en route to Philadelphia, where it was guided into dry dock to undergo two months of repairs that can and memorial. At each event, she said, she thought about her children, two of whom served in the U.S. Marines and one, Tracie Smith- Yeoman, who retired from the Navy as a commander. feel like my own kids are being Smith said about the financial commitment that enabled the monthslong mainte- nance project. the lives that served on added Smith- Yeoman, who now teaches naval science at a magnet school on the Jersey Shore.
that she did to secure the freedoms of so many people. important that we never, ever forget No other U.S. battleship served in more military campaigns. Christened on the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1942, it went on to earn 19 battle stars during 21 years of active service.
Roughly 45,000 sailors and Marines served on its decks in World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iran-Iraq Tanker War. The ship arrived at its permanent dock in Cam- den in October 2001, just after the Sept. 11 attacks. For security reasons, it was a hush-hush affair. moved her in the middle of the night with- out anybody on Ryan Szimanski, the mu- curator, said.
As a museum, the bat- tleship has become known for its hands-on military history tours and for the Scout sleepovers, retire- ment parties and high school proms that help to pay its bills. It was years overdue for the routine maintenance required to keep it safely afloat for the next couple of decades in the Dela- ware River. And prep- arations for pulling the 887.7-foot ship about 6 miles, from Camden to Paulsboro, New Jersey, and then to Philadelphia, were complete even be- fore the $10 million it will cost to finish the job was secured. To get to Philadelphia, the battleship had to pass under the Walt Whitman Bridge, which has a low- tide clearance 26 feet shorter than the tallest point, Szimanski said. A mast and antennas had to be removed to make it fit.
And as the battleship neared Phila- delphia, its onboard tanks were flooded with water to weigh it down enough to shimmy it into Dock No. 3 of the Philly Shipyard. It took three days to drain the slip, leaving the hull fully visible for the first time in 34 years. For weeks, workers have been hunched underneath the battleship welding waterproof caps and re- placing anodes as others perch on equipment high overhead, pressure-wash- ing and painting the hull. Before returning to Camden in late May, the ship will have been sprayed with six coats of epoxy in three distinct colors layering that will help museum officials track the underwater ero- sion process.
Weekend tours have allowed ticket holders from as far away as China and South America to walk beneath its under- belly. One man flew back and forth from California within 24 hours for the opportunity to climb down five flights of stairs into the cavernous boat basin where the work is being done. do this, anywhere, very said Libby Jones, the mu- director of educa- tion. into this kind of stuff, this is it this is the Super Along the way, Sziman- ski has stumbled into internet fame. A YouTube channel he and Jones created at the start of the pandemic to offer programming while the museum was closed now has nearly 240,000 subscribers.
Tickets for the dry-dock tours that Szimanski leads are selling for $1,000. (Tours led by other guides are $225.) think said Szimanski, 34, who grew up in Baltimore and has been working on museum battleships since he was a teenager. CHRIS LACHALL USA TODAY NETWORK The Battleship New Jersey was pulled into the Philadelphia Naval Dry Dock for a historic dry dock maintenance project on March 27. The battleship will be towed home to Camden, N.J., after the work is finished in late May. Most decorated US battleship gets overdue makeover BY TRACEY TULLY, RACHEL WISNIEWSKI AND ERIN SCHAFF NYT News Service.
