Calendar
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Jan
2
Thu
Jan 2 @ 9:30 am – Jan 31 @ 10:00 am
How did sailors manage in the cold weather?
During World War II, the ship’s heating was not nearly as good as it is today, try on some of their coats and hats, and see for yourself if you can keep warm. Throughout her history, the ship spent most of her time in warm climates, avoiding the chill by staying near the equator; however, she couldn’t avoid it all together, including a particularly cold commissioning ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia in November of 1950.
Check our actual Navy foul weather gear in the Captain’s In-port Cabin throughout the month of January as part of the Fire Power tour.
Jan
18
Sat
In honor of our new exhibit, USS New Jersey: Past, Present and Future, this month’s Building History project is focused on the first USS New Jersey, BB-16, which was in commission from 1906 to 1920, and the new submarine, SSN-796.
While many things were the same across all three ships, the biggest differences were in the technology. In this program you can learn how to navigate using a sextant and look at charts of the places that both battleships visited. You can also make your own periscope, something that not just the newest New Jersey, an attack submarine, has.
Every Saturday and Sunday in January, in the Crew’s Mess. Free with Admission.
Join other home schoolers on January 18 for a fun and interactive field trip aboard the Battleship New Jersey!
Take a guided tour with a museum educator and learn about some of the 55,000 people who served on board over the years. After your tour, take a special class on Building a Battleship and face the same problems that the ship builders did. Receive a certification of completion for your efforts. Appropriate for ages 10+, children must be accompanied by a guardian.
Pre-registration is required. E-mail L.Jones@BattleshipNewJersey or call 866-877-6262 x 245 to register or for more information.
Jan
19
Sun
In honor of our new exhibit, USS New Jersey: Past, Present and Future, this month’s Building History project is focused on the first USS New Jersey, BB-16, which was in commission from 1906 to 1920, and the new submarine, SSN-796.
While many things were the same across all three ships, the biggest differences were in the technology. In this program you can learn how to navigate using a sextant and look at charts of the places that both battleships visited. You can also make your own periscope, something that not just the newest New Jersey, an attack submarine, has.
Every Saturday and Sunday in January, in the Crew’s Mess. Free with Admission.
Jan
25
Sat
Jan 25 @ 9:30 am – Feb 29 @ 3:00 pm
Save money on a Fire Power self-guided tour of the Battleship New Jersey and help the hungry in our community!
Now through the end of February, bring in an unopened can of soup and we’ll give you a 20% discount on the Fire Power self-guided tour, available every day from 9:30am with the last tour departing at 3pm.
All cans of soup will be donated to the Food Bank of South Jersey.
In honor of our new exhibit, USS New Jersey: Past, Present and Future, this month’s Building History project is focused on the first USS New Jersey, BB-16, which was in commission from 1906 to 1920, and the new submarine, SSN-796.
While many things were the same across all three ships, the biggest differences were in the technology. In this program you can learn how to navigate using a sextant and look at charts of the places that both battleships visited. You can also make your own periscope, something that not just the newest New Jersey, an attack submarine, has.
Every Saturday and Sunday in January, in the Crew’s Mess. Free with Admission.
Jan
26
Sun
In honor of our new exhibit, USS New Jersey: Past, Present and Future, this month’s Building History project is focused on the first USS New Jersey, BB-16, which was in commission from 1906 to 1920, and the new submarine, SSN-796.
While many things were the same across all three ships, the biggest differences were in the technology. In this program you can learn how to navigate using a sextant and look at charts of the places that both battleships visited. You can also make your own periscope, something that not just the newest New Jersey, an attack submarine, has.
Every Saturday and Sunday in January, in the Crew’s Mess. Free with Admission.
Feb
1
Sat
Feb 1 @ 9:30 am – Feb 29 @ 3:00 pm
The Battleship will honor Ensign Louis Ivey and Admiral Paul Reason for Hands On History in February.
Ensign Ivey was initially assigned to the boiler division. Visitors can hold a fuel nozzle from one of the ship’s boiler rooms. One of those boiler rooms is on the Engineering Steam to Speed Tour that launches every Saturday and Sunday at 11:00. Ivey was later the division officer for the New Jersey’s radiomen, so we have a Gibson Girl Radio like the one that would have been on the ship with Ivey during the 1950s.
Admiral Reason, who led Battle Group Romeo from the Battleship in the 1980s, later wrote a book called Sailing New Seas about naval tactics that visitors can look through. The cruisebook from 1989 that includes Reason, is also on display.
Feb
8
Sat
Feb 8 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
In February’s program, especially designed for our preschool audience, learn about electricity!
Guests can put together a basic circuit then take a guided tour of the third deck of the ship and learn about how the ship made electricity.
The program will take place on Feb. 8 at 11:00, free with Fire Power self-guided tours. Activities will take place in the Crew’s Mess.
Feb
15
Sat
This Presidents Day Weekend, walk the decks that Presidents walked! Even check out President Ronald Reagan’s flag, on display in the Officers’ Wardroom.
The Battleship has also added the guided Engineering Steam to Speed Tour at 11am and the guided Turret II Tour at 1pm on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 17.
Further, on Monday, Feb. 17, the Battleship will recognize the 76th Anniversary of Operation Hailstorm. On Feb. 17 and 18, 1944, there was a massive air and surface strike on Truk Lagoon. This would be the first time that the Battleship New Jersey would fire her 16-inch guns in anger. To commemorate this event, we will be posting in real time on Twitter the events of the battleship and of others involved. Additionally, Curator Ryan Szimanski will be leading the 1 pm Turret II tour, which will be longer than usual and discuss Operation Hailstone in addition to talking about the 16-inch guns. The lecture is free for members and all guests with Fire Power self-guided tour tickets. The lecture will be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Members get 30% off the Turret II tour.
Finally, each day during Presidents Day Weekend, guests can register to win the DVD “The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents,” donated by The History Channel. Guests can enter in the Ship’s Store.
Feb
16
Sun
This Presidents Day Weekend, walk the decks that Presidents walked! Even check out President Ronald Reagan’s flag, on display in the Officers’ Wardroom.
The Battleship has also added the guided Engineering Steam to Speed Tour at 11am and the guided Turret II Tour at 1pm on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 17.
Further, on Monday, Feb. 17, the Battleship will recognize the 76th Anniversary of Operation Hailstorm. On Feb. 17 and 18, 1944, there was a massive air and surface strike on Truk Lagoon. This would be the first time that the Battleship New Jersey would fire her 16-inch guns in anger. To commemorate this event, we will be posting in real time on Twitter the events of the battleship and of others involved. Additionally, Curator Ryan Szimanski will be leading the 1 pm Turret II tour, which will be longer than usual and discuss Operation Hailstone in addition to talking about the 16-inch guns. The lecture is free for members and all guests with Fire Power self-guided tour tickets. The lecture will be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Members get 30% off the Turret II tour.
Finally, each day during Presidents Day Weekend, guests can register to win the DVD “The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents,” donated by The History Channel. Guests can enter in the Ship’s Store.
Feb
17
Mon
Feb 17 @ 9:30 am – 3:00 pm
On Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 17, the Battleship will recognize the 76th Anniversary of Operation Hailstorm.
On Feb. 17 and 18, 1944, there was a massive air and surface strike on Truk Lagoon. This would be the first time that the Battleship New Jersey would fire her 16-inch guns in anger.
To commemorate this event, we will be posting in real time on Twitter the events of the battleship and of others involved. Additionally, Curator Ryan Szimanski will be leading the 1 pm Turret II tour, which will be longer than usual and discuss Operation Hailstone in addition to talking about the 16-inch guns. The lecture is free for members and all guests with Fire Power self-guided tour tickets. The lecture will be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Members get 30% off the Turret II tour.
This Presidents Day Weekend, walk the decks that Presidents walked! Even check out President Ronald Reagan’s flag, on display in the Officers’ Wardroom.
The Battleship has also added the guided Engineering Steam to Speed Tour at 11am and the guided Turret II Tour at 1pm on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 17.
Further, on Monday, Feb. 17, the Battleship will recognize the 76th Anniversary of Operation Hailstorm. On Feb. 17 and 18, 1944, there was a massive air and surface strike on Truk Lagoon. This would be the first time that the Battleship New Jersey would fire her 16-inch guns in anger. To commemorate this event, we will be posting in real time on Twitter the events of the battleship and of others involved. Additionally, Curator Ryan Szimanski will be leading the 1 pm Turret II tour, which will be longer than usual and discuss Operation Hailstone in addition to talking about the 16-inch guns. The lecture is free for members and all guests with Fire Power self-guided tour tickets. The lecture will be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Members get 30% off the Turret II tour.
Finally, each day during Presidents Day Weekend, guests can register to win the DVD “The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents,” donated by The History Channel. Guests can enter in the Ship’s Store.
Feb
22
Sat
Feb 22 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am
In continuation of the Battleship New Jersey’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the ship will host a ceremony at 9:30am on Saturday, Feb. 22. The keynote speaker will be WWII veteran and a participant in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Frank Beach. The Battleship will remember our military heroes who gave the ultimate sacrifice with the casting a wreath into the Delaware River, a 21-gun salute by the PFC Daniel Giordano Marine Detachment Rifle Team, and the performance of TAPs on bugle.
The ceremony will take place in the Officers’ Wardroom and is free for guests to attend.
Further, the Battleship will be real-time posting on Twitter some of the events of the Battle of Iwo Jima on Feb. 17.
The American goal of the battle was to gain control of the island and its airfields to allow the Americans to have a staging location in order to attack the Japanese main islands. Over five weeks, this battle had some of the bloodiest fighting of the war in the Pacific. During the battle, New Jersey participated in the shore bombardment of the island
Mar
1
Sun
Mar 1 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The American Red Cross New Jersey Region will be holding a ceremony and flag raising aboard the Battleship New
Jersey on Sunday, March 1 at 12pm to kick off March is Red Cross Month in New Jersey. The Battleship New Jersey will fly the Red Cross flag
and be illuminated at night in red lights throughout March to honor all those who have made the humanitarian mission
of the Red Cross possible.
March has been recognized as Red Cross Month for more than 75 years. Beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt
in 1943, every U.S. President has designated March as Red Cross Month to recognize how the American Red Cross helps
people across the country and around the world.
The Honorable Donald Norcross, U.S. Representative, NJ 1st Congressional District, will be the keynote speaker. Also scheduled to speak are
Brigadier General Patrick M. Kennedy, Assistant Adjutant General Air; NJ National Guard, and Captain William R. Sherrod, Commanding Officer,
Naval Support Activity, Lakehurst; Deputy Commander, JB MDL. The Battleship New Jersey Sea Cadets will present colors, while the
National Anthem will be performed on trumpet by 13-year-old Aidan Peterson. The Philadelphia Fire Department Marine Unit Fire Boat will be off
the port of the ship.
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