#USS Wisconsin BB-64

[lonestarbattleship]

"Sailor Will Schroeder, of Prodivdence, R.I., salutes the three battleships in the mothball fleet at the Philadelphia Naval Base that are being considered for Vietnam war duty. Ships are (from left) USS Wisconsin (BB-64), USS New Jersey (BB-62) and USS Iowa (BB-61)."

Date: April 1967

Temple University Library: P554176B

#USS Wisconsin (BB-64) #USS Wisconsin #USS New Jersey (BB-62) #USS New Jersey #USS Iowa (BB-61) #USS Iowa #Iowa Class #Battleship #Warship #Ship #United States Navy #U.S. Navy #US Navy #USN #Navy #Delaware River #Philadelphia Navy Yard #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #East Coast #Mothballs Fleet #Mothballs #Reserve Fleet #Reserve #Decommissioned #April #1967 #my post

[rooster-does-art]

You don't mess with Wisconsin. You fire at her and she fires back with triple the force!

@temper-temper Tagging you because you know why.

#Art #Random Art #MLP #Battleship Ponies #USS Wisconsin #BB-64 #Battleship #temper-temper #Battleships are totally propelled dby gigantic ponies

[carbone14]

Le cuirassé USS Wisconsin (BB-64) de la classe Iowa pendant une démonstration de tir de ses canons de 406 mm – Golfe du Mexique

On peut apercevoir un obus sortir d’un des canons.

#Après-guerre #Marine américaine #US Navy #USN #Marine militaire #Military navy #Navire de guerre #Warship #Cuirassé #Battleship #Classe Iowa #Iowa class #USS Wisconsin (BB-64) #USS Wisconsin #BB-64 #Golfe du Mexique #Mexico Gulf

[judgemark45]

A bow view of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) with its Mark 7 16-inch/50-caliber guns trained to port prior to a firepower demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico.

[heavenlybackside]

USS Wisconsin (BB 64)

[captain-price-unofficially]

Soviet tanker Komsomol crossing the bow of USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1950s.

#naval #cold war

[floridaboiler]

So much firepower in one place USS Wisconsin (BB-64), USS New Jersey (BB-62), USS Iowa (BB-61) in 1977.

#USA #Navy #US Navy #Battleship #Wisconsin #BB-64 #New jersey #BB-62 #Iowa #BB-61

[deliciouswombatwombat]

A port bow view of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) firing its Mark 7 16-inch/50-caliber guns to port during a firepower demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico, 1988.

#warship #navy #united states navy #us navy #battleship

[grantgfan]

Hey, Ellie.

Have you ever heard of the “Temper Temper” Incident?

It involved this ship: USS Wisconsin (BB-64), an Iowa-class battleship of the United States Navy.

It happened on March 15th, 1952, during the Korean War. USS Wisconsin (BB-64), nicknamed “Big Wisky”, was bombarding targets near Songjin, North Korea when she hit for the first and only time in her WHOLE career. She was hit by a 155-mm North Korean artillery shell that was fired from a North Korean shore battery. The shell tore through a splinter shied of a starboard 40-mm gin mount that luckily killed no one but injured three sailors. Fuming with rage, Wisconsin immediately aimed ALL 9 16-inch main battery guns at the direction the shot came from and rained hell on it by firing a full salvo of her three main turrets, completely destroying not only the North Korean shore battery, but also everything around it. A few seconds later, Wisconsin's lead escort, a destroyer called USS Buck, sent a Morse lamp signal that translated “temper temper”. Wisconsin replied with “but they started it”.

So what’s the moral of this story? NEVER enrage a battleship, especially one from the US Navy.

Ellie: whoa

[lonestarbattleship]

On May 6, 1956, USS Wisconsin (BB-64) collided with USS Eaton (DDE-510) in heavy fog. Wisconsin headed to Norfolk Navy Yard and entered a drydock on May 13.

To sped up the repairs, the Navy experimented with cutting off the 120-ton, 68 foot (21 m) bow section of the incomplete Kentucky (BB-66) to graft on USS Wisconsin.

Tugboats placing Kentucky into Number 10 drydock at the Newport News Shipbuilding with her stern inboard. Considerable ballasting was required before the docking operations.

On the left, workers wait to make the final cut until the crane was ready for the lift. On the right, bow section is being transferred to the deck of the Navy crane.

The crane barge carrying the bow section across the river to the Norfolk Navy Yard where Wisconsin is being repaired.

On the left, the damaged bow being cleared for the new bow. On the right, a Navy derrick is transferring undamaged bottom portion of Wisconsin's bow onto deck of Kentucky.

The Kentucky's bow section being lowed into position on the Wisconsin. This experiment to sped up repairs was done to enabled the ship to carry out her scheduled midshipman training cruise that summer. 

Working around the clock, it took shipyard personnel 16 days to completed the grafted on the new bow. On June 28, 1956, USS Wisconsin was ready for sea.

source, source

Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-670850

#USS Wisconsin (BB-64) #USS Wisconsin #USS Kentucky (BB-66) #USS Kentucky #Iowa Class #Battleship #USS Eaton (DDE-510) #USS Eaton #Fletcher Class #Destroyer #collision #damage #repair #norfolk navy yard #norfolk #virginia #May #1956 #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #u.s. navy #my post #long post

[jeusussavearmyveteran1205]

So much firepower in one place USS Wisconsin (BB-64), USS New Jersey (BB-62), USS Iowa (BB-61) in 1977.

[freetheshit-outofyou]

USS Buck (DD-761), USS Wisconsin (BB-64) and USS Saint Paul (CA-73) steaming together during operations off Korea, 1952.

[nebris]

Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) coming along side oiler Taluga (AO-62) for fueling. Jan. 1945.

Ya can keep yer Bismarck and Yamato. No battleships more gorgeous than USN WW2 fast battleships.

[judgemark45]

USS Wisconsin BB-64 Battleship 1990 Photograph Operation Desert Shield

[erindrifter]

Y'all may have noticed a bit of a slowdown in my making large scale 3D renders recently.

I'll make one for ya soon, I promise! However, I am working on a slightly more personal project right now, and it's being a lot more complicated than I initially thought it would be, so it might be a hot second. It's for someone, so I don't want to cut corners if I can help it. It's not a secret, it's the battleship USS Wisconsin BB-64. Feel free to ask questions, and I might show it off at some point. I might show some things on my discord server, too. But the final render won't be shown on here.

However, I do have two ideas for what the next one will be! Either the Serenity, or a complete redo of the SR-71 I made a while ago. I would also like to try my hand at Ecto-1 in the near future.

#i also have a pipe dream of making a museum of all my renders #it would have to be a video #but it would start in a room with the smaller stuff on display #then move out to an airfield where I have my current and future airplane models #go down a short road where you can see the car(s) #to the water for the ships #then we LAUNCH into space to see the large spaceships #thats an idea Ive had but by GOD it would take so long to do

[captain-price-unofficially]

Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is tied up outboard of the hulk of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii. 11 November 1944

#naval #home front #wwii