Battleship on the Delaware River: USS New Jersey traveling to Philadelphia for repairs

live look now across the river where the battleship New Jersey is currently docked as it has been for a long time now in Camden but it won't be there much longer that historic Battleship will be on the Move tomorrow part of a project to make sure it'll be on display there for generations to come New Jersey Trish Hartman live now in Camden with more on that Big Move tomorrow Trish that's right Brian tomorrow morning is the ceremony and then at 1210 sharp the battleship is scheduled to depart here from Camden on its way for restoration it is the first time this ship has moved from this very spot in more than 20 years we're ready to go uh it's has been a year in the making uh we're prepped we're ready the most decorated battleship in US Navy history is about to take an overdue trip down the Delaware for some much needed maintenance most of the work will be done to the part that you you don't see here uh you know just visiting us in Camden but that work is really the most crucial work in making sure that we're staying here we're AF flat the battleship New Jersey is about to go into Dry Dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard where the ship's hole will be inspected painted and repaired the battleship cannot move on its own so four tugboats will pull it Harbor docking pilot Joseph Benton will be at the helm making sure the ship makes its Journey safely we use the tug boats in place of the ship's propulsion system so one tug will be made fast to the side of the ship to act as the engines and the other tugs will be in place of the rudder Help U lift the ship off the dock and then turn her around and sear her down river the ship will cross under the Walt Whitman Bridge around 1:30 and the bridge will be closed to traffic during that time the ship will arrive in Paulsboro around 400 p.m. there it will receive final preparations for dry docking at the Navy Yard public viewing areas include the Camden Waterfront Redbank Battlefield in National Park and the River Winds complex in West depford the last time the ship was dry docked was in 1990 officials expect thousands of people to watch the famous ship make her journey tomorrow I've been on it before and uh you got I was in the Navy my dad was in the Navy it' be nice to come see it come down yeah now once the battleship New Jersey ends up at the Navy Yard it will go to dock number three and that is the same exact dock where it was built in the 1930s and 1940s now officials hope to have the ship back here in Camden back open for tours as usual in early June