I love how much Ryan knows about not only his own Iowa class battleship, but the other Iowas as well. Very impressive depth of knowledge.

I really liked the walking tour.  Hopefully you will do more of that.  For those of us that have never been on the ship it really ties it all together.

Ryan seems a little perplexed as to why people want a walking tour of the deck, but I promise it's highly appreciated and helps a lot of people get some context of scale and layout

Lol I love Ryan's straight-forward attitude, like "I dunno why the hell you guys want this but whatever..." So honest and refreshing. 😂😂

Hey Ryan, I just discovered your channel and am really enjoying it.  At 13:54 you show the refueling-at-sea system, which thrilled me, because I was the designer!  Yep, in the 80s I was a new engineer at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard when BB62 came in for recommissioning.  I was in the structural section, and got the OK to employ the then-new computer capacity we had acquired for finite element analysis that the old timers didn’t yet trust.  I was there on deck when we put it in.  Good times . . .

To answer your question, the walking tour helps visualize where things are in relation to other parts of the ship.  As you were going, I kept remembering the videos you did about that part of the ship and the tour helped place the locations in my mind.
In the summer of ‘80 I toured the Missouri in Bremerton, but that was a long time ago and she was still in the mothballed fleet, so this video helped me a lot!

Ryan -  some of us are disabled, and getting up on to the ship or walking around things is just not possible. This walk is as  close as I could get - even if I were on the shore at this time. Thank you for this.

Odd request?  Perhaps -- but for those of us who may never get a chance to visit, very worthwhile!

Some of my favorite videos are the ones that start with Ryan saying “because you requested it for some reason”
They always turn out way more interesting than expected

I was working in the Navy Base in Long Beach, CA. in 1986 and I was lucky enough to see both the New Jersey and the Missouri in there at the same time. The Missouri was in the dry dock and to see something that big with no water holding it up was something else.

I get that it was probably just traditional but the New Jersey flying the Navy Jack to identify itself as a military vessel is funny. Like someone would look at this ship and go “I think thats a tug boat”.

I like how from the fantail you can actually see the SS United States in her dock, Shows just how close the New Jersey and the SS United States really are

It's greatly appreciated.  It might seem odd, but for those of us who don't visit ships (such as those of us fans who are so far inland that the nearest ship is hours away) 887 feet is a number that's hard to picture.  A walkdown gives a far greater sense of scale.

So if one of the final officers still listed on the quarterdeck board comes to visit, do you remember to move him to the on-board list?

Whoever requested this, thankyou. And thankyou Ryan for doing it .

8:52 “right now we have everybody moved to ashore”

Strangely moving remark there Ryan

@Battleship New jersey:   Thanks for doing this walk-through!    It may seem weird to Ryan, but those of us watching from home only see pieces of the ship in the videos, so this walk along the starboard side gives us better context for where parts of the ship are, relative to each other, and a context for the whole length of the and size of ship.

Ryan makes a great tour guide. Most impressed with his knowledge of the minor differences between New Jersey and her sisters, particularly  Wisconsin.

"do you think that massive ship with 9 16" and 12 5" guns is military?" "I don't know I can't see if it has the naval ensign"

Love this content. Please keep in mind Ryan, even spaces accessible on the tour route are interesting to people like me, who have never been aboard an Iowa-class, and even if I do get a chance to see one near me, I likely won't get a chance to come see the New Jersey herself. That's a shame, but I'm still really glad to be able to interact with this piece of history that you all are so carefully preserving. As far as I'm aware, you're setting the bar for this type of content, and it really widens up your potential audience.