by Gus Guy
 |
On Jan. 20 the U.S. Navy announced that the
battleship New Jersey will remain in Camden
permanently. The famous battleship will be given
to the Home Port Alliance and will open as a
museum within a year. The museum will highlight
the battleship’s combat history and the
area’s long ship building tradition (the New Jersey
was built and launched from the Philadelphia
shipyard in 1942). The Navy’s decision to
keep the battleship in Camden rather than sending
it to Bayonne ends a political fight between
North and South Jersey. “The key is that the
state of New Jersey finally has the ship and it’s
now time to pull everyone together to work as a
unified force for the betterment of the Battleship
New Jersey,” said Joseph Azzolina, a Monmouth
Assemblyman and chairman of the USS Battleship
Commission.
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