The USS New Jersey is scheduled to leave port for the first time in 24 years, to undergo maintenance in Philadelphia. Now a floating museum, the battleship will fire its heavy guns on the journey.

Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these ...

USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship, was reactivated to provide naval gunfire support for American and allied forces fighting in South Vietnam.

You can see video of the New Jersey firing its guns here. The New Jersey, known as the “Big J,” is now a museum ship that you can tour in Camden, New Jersey.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Over the course of her relatively short Vietnam patrol New Jersey fired 5,688 16-inch gun rounds and 14,891 five-inch gun rounds, far more than she fired during ...

The U.S. military commissioned the USS New Jersey in 1944 as a battleship that would see much action during WWII.

For a donation of $500, guests can pull the trigger on the Battleship New Jersey's port-side 5-inch gun, while a $100 donation allows firing of the 40mm saluting gun.

Fifty years ago when all 20 of these World War II anti-aircraft guns were removed from the battleship USS New Jersey during its 1967 overhaul at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for Vietnam ...

A 68-foot-long battleship gun barrel from World War II, one that originally had been on the USS New Jersey before spending decades in storage in Norfolk, Va., is now part of the county park's ...

Q: My Boy Scout troop is planning an overnight outing to the battleship New Jersey in June. Do you possibly know if the main guns were forged in the local Bethlehem Steel plant? If so would they be… ...

CAMDEN – The Battleship New Jersey has launched an auction for the right to fire the ship's 5-inch gun at the end of the fireworks display over the Delaware River on July 3rd.

Naval firing, bugling farewell for battleship New Jersey museum CEO Phil Rowan, whose replacement is his second in command Jack Willard ...