Battleship USS New Jersey Memorial Pier - Camden, NJ

Owner/Client
Home Port Alliance for
the USS New Jersey, Inc.
Project Description

Fast track construction of a 200' by 400' "T" shaped concrete pier, breasting dolphins, and mooring system designed to hold the 887' long by 54,000 ton displacement Battleship USS New Jersey. Weeks Marine redesigned the pier structure and breasting dolphins from cast-in-place to precast concrete elements in order to improve project delivery. Precast was fabricated in Virginia and towed to the site with Weeks' fleet of barges and tugs. The pier is supported on 18" steel pipe piles driven vertical and at compound batters in lengths up to 94'. The four concrete breasting dolphins are independent structures supported by twenty-seven 18" steel pipe piles by 110' long, driven in a tight pattern at batters up to 23º. The Weeks 524, a 155 ton barge mounted gantry crane, installed the mooring system of four steel Plate Anchors driven into the riverbed, and four 7' diameter by 120' long steel monopiles to bedrock. The critical components of the pier and mooring system were installed and ready to receive the Battleship within 140 days of the first pile driven.

Year Completed
2001
Scope of Work
Construction Monopiles Engineering Redesign
Project Cost
$6.5 Million