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WATCH: Battleship NJ Leaves Camden For 1st Time In Decades
The historic warship — all 45K tons and 887 feet of her — is off for dry-docking. See pics and video of the ship beginning her journey.
CAMDEN, NJ — Battleship New Jersey has left her berth, as veterans, officials and members of the public witnessed a watercraft the size of a 90-story building leave the Camden waterfront for the first time in decades.
USS New Jersey (BB-62), the most decorated warship in U.S. Navy history, made way Thursday for significant maintenance in Philadelphia. Viewers had the surreal experience of seeing the ship — all 45,000 tons and 887 feet of her — in motion for the first time in more than 30 years.
Several tugboats are pulling the battleship, which can no longer move on her own, to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where she'll undergo dry-docking — a process of removing a ship from the water to enable work below the waterline.
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The work will take about two months before she returns to Camden.
Check out the photos above, and watch the battleship in motion:
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