USS New Jersey starts its journey down Delaware river

Watch as this historic battleship, the USS New Jersey, moves out of dock from Camden for the first time in decades. The ship will undergo maintenance, repairs, and repainting.

Courtesy: USS New Jersey

[earlmcclure]

Beautiful lady whose sailors and Marines kept her in fighting shape to preserve, protect and defend our freedoms...

[simongleaden]

An awesome ship, and 80 years old too! As an Englishman I'm sad that no British battleship was preserved as a museum ship - the best we've got is HMS Belfast, preserved in the River Thames in London. Britain's last battleship, HMS Vanguard, was scrapped just 14 years after first being commissioned. My late father was in the ship's company during Vanguard's first commission. I think that some time in the 1950's "Big J" and Vanguard were both involved in the same NATO naval exercise in the North Atlantic and comparisons could be made between the two.