Battleship - USS North Carolina

Battleship – North Carolina!

The last day of our trip to “the states” we went on a field trip to the USS North Carolina Battleship. The battleship is a huge ship opened as a kind of museum. After a short trip around an indoor museum we were led out to the ship itself. USS North Carolina was used under the Second World War and she was an important player in the bombardments in the pacific. The ship was designed to carry 1,800 men, but under the WW2 she was home to over 2,300 soldiers. Going on the tour around the ship we saw the bunk beds stacked five tiers high. The life on the ship must not have been a private place to be. There were no doors, not even in the toilets! Even the showers were open, so you would have had no privacy at all!

 

The ship was interesting and we could have used a lot more time. But the fact that we all got a bit claustrophobic going around in the small narrow hallways of the ship, got us all looking for a way out – which took us a really long time! We could just imagine how it would have been to be a soldier living on the ship. When we finally found our way out of the ship we saw a big sign saying “DO NOT FEED THE ALLIGATORS!” what a great ending of a great trip to the battleship of North Carolina!

Written by Jannie and HenrietteJ