Summary: The USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1991, is undergoing its first refurbishment in over thirty years at a cost of $10 million. -Known ...

The USS New Jersey is scheduled to leave port for the first time in 24 years, to undergo maintenance in Philadelphia. Now a floating museum, the battleship will fire its heavy guns on the journey.

As the battleship was leaving Camden, a crowd had already gathered on Gloucester City's waterfront, which offered a view of the New Jersey passing beneath the Walt Whitman Bridge from 1 to 1:30 p.m.

“One of the many missions of the Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial is to pay tribute to the over 45,000 sailors who served aboard and the thousands from our region who built her in the ...

The USS New Jersey is the only Iowa-class battleship to be maintained as a museum in her namesake state. Three locations were originally determined to be suitable for the warship, including ...

CAMDEN — The Battleship New Jersey, a focal point of the local waterfront since 2001, made its highly anticipated departure today with a celebratory send-off. The floating museum also "made ...

To welcome the USS New Jersey home, museum officials have scheduled an 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. celebration along the Camden Waterfront. Tickets will cost $10 and provide free food and drinks from on ...

Ryan Szimanski, curator of the museum that maintains the ship, poses on top of turret 3 on Battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) as it approaches the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, on Wednesday, March ...

The historic USS New Jersey battleship left the Philadelphia Navy Yard. around 8 a.m. on Friday, where it has been dry-docked while undergoing maintenance.

A person walks in Philadelphia across the Delaware River from the USS New Jersey in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The battleship is scheduled to move from its dock in Camden on March 21 ...

The 52,000-ton Battleship USS New Jersey passes under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Jan. 31, 1948, enroute to Gravesend Bay to unload her ammunition and then back to the Brooklyn Navy yard for ...