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Welcome to the Unofficial
Homeport of the Battleship New Jersey |
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This website debuted in the Summer of 1999, shortly before the Battleship’s final voyage from Bremerton, WA to Camden, NJ. I started volunteering onboard in the Spring of 2001, and over the next 13 years I posted hundreds of photos chronicling efforts to restore and maintain the ship. For the last 10 years I’ve continued to volunteer but have posted very few photos because the software program I used to update this site was discontinued. This left me without a way to make regular updates, and as a result this site has suffered. In retirement I’m going to attempt a major upgrade to this site, so starting in August of 2024 it will be moving into drydock for a serious overhaul. During the overhaul I wanted visitors to still have access to key sections of the site, so direct links to those sections are provided below. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to send me an e-mail at rich@ussnewjersey.com. |
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This section features information on the history
of the Battleship during her four periods in commission. It includes awards
and decorations she earned, and a table of Iowa Class Battleship facts and
figures. |
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This section features photos, journal
entries, and news articles from the ship’s final voyage home. It also
includes some great photos of her final transit of the Panama Canal in
October 1999. |
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This section features photos of the ship’s
arrival in Camden, NJ on Veteran’s Day 1999, photos of her Grand Opening as a
museum on October 14, 2001, and hundreds of restoration photos from my
volunteer days up until 2014. |
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This section features archived issues of
the The Jerseyman from January 2002 through the Fall of 2014. These issues
were written by ships volunteers Tom Helvig and Rich Thrash and contain
Battleship related content. |
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This section features the site’s Ships Log
where visitors posted their comments, the first comment is from August 1999,
the last one is from January 2015. There are some really great stories posted
in this log by former crewmembers. |
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On July 5, 2006, I had the chance to visit
USS Des Moines in search of items we could use on the Battleship. Shortly
after this visit she departed Philadelphia to be scrapped, this section
features some great photos from my day onboard. |
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Shortly after the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Center (Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum annex) opened in 2003 I
visited and took a bunch of photos of the treasures to be found there. I
highly recommend visiting if you are in the area. |
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If you visited this site looking for the
official website for the Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) Museum and Memorial, this
link will take you there. |
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If you visited this site looking for the
official website for the new USS New Jersey (SSN-796), a Virginia class fast-attack
submarine, this link will take you there. |
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Battleship
New Jersey at her pier on the Delaware River in Camden, NJ |
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