When I was stationed at Hickam AFB, lived in quarters that were right on the ship channel to Pearl Harbor. Carriers were impressive, but seeing the New Jersey coming down the channel was the best of sightings. Interesting factoid is that when firing all the 16 inch guns at one time in a broadside, the ship was pushed some 15 feet broadside through the water from the recoil.
It doesn’t move an inch in reality……doesn’t even heel.
7.74 inch seconds if the guns were fired horizontally…..which they seldom are….if the ship was on ice….
Considering it is pushing a wall of water 850’ by 38’…….. it is a fraction of a millimeter
This from the navy
