A battleship leaves
March 25. 2024: Tugboats settle the Battleship New Jersey into its relatively quiet temporary stop at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal — after leaving crowds on the Camden waterfront and both sides of the Delaware River on Thursday.Journalists, unlike those who work in filmmaking, animation or video game design, don’t pre-visualize as much.
I decided I did not need the entire 887-foot long ship in my frame. But I did want to include other elements in what I anticipated would be the newspaper’s main news image for the story. I needed the spectators, the BB-62 number on the bow, the Philadelphia skyline, a tugboat, and, if I could, the waterfront’s other battleship, the Cruiser Olympia from the 1898 Spanish-American War docked across the river at Penn’s Landing. That last one didn’t work out.
By the time I got through traffic leaving the dock in Camden and my escort at the Gloucester City Port got me under the bridge, the ship, moving faster than anticipated, was nearly at its destination. Abandoning the initial plan to capture it directly underneath due to the cluttered background of huge cranes on the Philadelphia Ports side, I ran further downstream, past dock workers pausing to admire the “Big J” as it passed.
The atmosphere at the Paulsboro Terminal was markedly tranquil compared to the bustling Camden and Philadelphia Waterfronts, as tugboats maneuvered the battleship against the dock, where it will be balanced over the coming week.Expect more photos then, and again when the battleship is in dry dock for routine maintenance, repairs, and repainting, the first such work in 32 years.
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