You spoke, and we listened. For years, Nautical Nights campers have asked for a comprehensive publication that explains the overnight camping experience, and now you have it.

Available free to every camper, the OVERNIGHT SURVIVAL GUIDE provides all the information you need to ensure your visit to the museum is fun, safe and educational.

Furthermore, we now offer a free supplement to this document, the Battleship Cove Visitor's Guide, which contains detailed diagrams of the Massachusetts, Kennedy, and Lionfish, and the exhibits contained therein.

What does it take to build a battleship?

RIVETING DETAILS: It took 6,250 shipbuilders from the Fore River Shipyard nearly three and half years to build USS Massachusetts at a cost of more than $120M, well in excess of her projected $80M budget. Her construction required:

• 4.3M feet of welding
• 1.1M rivets
• 422,000 feet of piping
• 9.5 acres of decking
• 900 electric motors
• 5,300 electric lighting fixtures
• 89,480 feet of air duct vents
• 1,091 telephones
• 1.2M feet of electrical cable

Many of these components were stripped while BB59 was in mothballs. To learn about our efforts to restore her to her original configuration, click here.