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.

Summary and Key Points: The USS New Jersey (BB-62), an Iowa-class battleship, played a significant but relatively short role in the Vietnam War, serving from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1969.

USS New Jersey departed Philadelphia on May 16, 1968, traveling down the East Coast and passing through the Panama Canal before arriving at her new home port of Long Beach.

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 ...

USS New Jersey Lodge No. 62, F&AM, donated $2,500, USS New Jersey Veterans, Inc., $5,000 and former service members or their families also donated. Among defense contractors donors, Lockheed ...

TONY KURDZUK/THE STAR-LEDGERThe Battleship New Jersey, shown in a file photo, has launched an auction for the right to fire the ship’s 5-inch gun at the end of the fireworks display over the ...

CAMDEN — Naval fanfare surrounded the farewell this week of the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial's chief executive, whose association with the ship began 23 years ago when the idea to ...

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… ...

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 ...