Battleship NJ Eyes Return To Camden
CAMDEN, NJ — The most decorated warship in U.S. Navy history is expected back in Camden before the nation's birthday.Battleship New Jersey, which left the Camden waterfront for the first time in decades for maintenance work, is projected to return in late June, according to the ship's namesake nonprofit.The massive battleship — officially named USS New Jersey (BB-62) — departed from the waterfront in March for dry-docking — a process of removing a ship from the water to enable work below the waterline. She is currently undergoing maintenance at Dock #3 in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard — the same dock the ship was launched from in 1942.No return date has been set. But the museum and memorial hope the ship returns in time to open by June 29 and serve as a viewing point for fireworks shows in Delaware, CEO Marshall Spevak told the Courier-Post.Fireworks viewing from the battleship will also be available July 3 during the Freedom Festival — the county's annual Independence Day celebration in Camden.Throughout a half-century of deployments, USS New Jersey earned 19 Battle and Campaign stars — the most of any surviving Navy ship. The 887-foot, 45,000-ton ship moved to her permanent berth on Sept. 23, 2001, in Camden, becoming one of the state's biggest attractions as a museum.USS New Jersey — the size of a 90-story building — is undergoing dry-docking for the first time since the early 1990s. Tickets for dry-dock tours are available for purchase, giving the public a once-in-a-generation experience to view battleship on land.Several tugboats pulled the battleship, which is no longer operational, to her pit stop at Paulsboro Marine Terminal and then to Philadelphia.The article Battleship NJ Eyes Return To Camden appeared first on Haddonfield-Haddon Township, NJ Patch.
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