USS New Jersey at Camden.
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I'm Marty Luster, a retired attorney and politician. In 2010 my wife, mother-in-law, dog and I relocated from Central NY to Gloucester. I hope my photographs and poetry(?) reflect my love for this place and her people.
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USS New Jersey at Camden.
Good Morning Gloucester 
USS New Jersey, BB-62, launched in 1942. She is the most decorated battleship in US Naval History, and her war cruises were in the Pacific theator in WWII. Now a museum ship in Camden, NJ. You can even book an overnight on the NJ (Sixty Bucks!), which is three football fields long and eleven stories high: http://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/
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I watched her fire her 16″ guns off the coast of Korea, during exercises in 1986. Pretty impressive.
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I’m assuming the shells were 16″ and the guns were huge, as we see in Marty’s photo. Awesome firepower. Battleships are naval warships of the past now, the last one built in 1945. Long range missiles from smaller vessels, from the shore, and from aircraft made them obsolete. I’m glad a few of them have been preserved. I’ve seen photos of battleships that had just fired salvos from the big guns, and it made those large ships move sideways in the opposite direction. One guy I talked to experienced that while in the Navy.
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May find this of interest too
http://www.navalhistory.org/2010/06/26/the-battleship-new-jersey-and-the-korean-war
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