Would You Pay $5K To Ride Battleship NJ? Tickets On Sale For Journey Back To Camden

CAMDEN, NJ — There are certainly cheaper ways to reach Camden. But it's not every day that you can ride a historic warship.

After a once-in-a-generation journey to dry-dock, Battleship New Jersey will return to the Camden Waterfront later this month. A few people will have the rare opportunity to ride aboard the ship as she makes her way home.

Tickets are selling for $5,000 each.

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Before leaving the waterfront for maintenance in March, USS New Jersey (BB-62) hadn't left her Camden berth for several decades. And once the ship returns to Camden, there's no telling when she might set sail again.

Museum ships typically need to dry-dock every 20 years for maintenance below the waterline, according to the Battleship New Jersey Museum & Memorial. But before this year, the ship hadn't dry-docked since the early 1990s.

About a decade later, USS New Jersey reached Camden for her permanent berth, serving as a museum ship since 2001.

USS New Jersey will begin her journey home on June 14, when she travels from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to the Paulsboro Marine Terminal. After six days of ballast work, she'll sail to Camden on June 20.

Battleship New Jersey is selling 15 tickets for each leg of the journey — 30 tickets total. Each trip will last a few hours. Click here for tickets.

While $5,000 may be a hefty price, attending the battleship's return celebration in Camden will be considerably cheaper: only $10, and free for children under 12.

Throughout a half-century of deployments, USS New Jersey earned 19 Battle and Campaign stars — the most of any surviving U.S. 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.