The USS Missouri is not being reactivated. Somebody on social media misused the term battleship and sent the rest of internet ...

The recurring fantasy of reactivating the Iowa-class battleships is a “nostalgic delusion.” -The 80-year-old warships are ...

The USS Iowa went through the first stage of re-decking on Thursday morning. The World War II battleship originally had teak decks on top of the steel.

It also bears a likeness of its predecessor ship, the battleship USS Iowa, BB-61, which served from World War II through 1990 and is now a museum in the Port of Los Angeles.

There are eight battleship museums throughout the United States were families and veterans can tour. Two of the battleships ...

The Battleship Iowa, a tourist attraction in the Port of Los Angeles since 2012, is among the more recent additions to the nation’s floating museum fleet and this mont, it embarked on a standard ...

A veteran of World War II, Iowa —and her sister battleships—sported a main battery of three 16-inch, 50-caliber three-gun turrets, along with a secondary battery of lesser guns and a ...

Deep Dive into the Battleship USS Iowa Laid down on June 6, 1940, USS Iowa was completed on February 22, 1943, and just two days later was put to sea for a shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay and ...

Gayle Anderson reports what KTLA has been following since July 2024, the unique project of replacing the distressed deck of the historic Battleship Iowa, also known as the Battleship of Presidents ...

The first USS Iowa was a pre-dreadnaught battleship, BB-4, first laid down in 1893, then decommissioned in 1903. The second, and most famous, was BB-61, the lead ship of the Iowa class of battleships.

The battleship USS Iowa, which during its 50 years of service welcomed on its decks three presidents (Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush), is today a floating museum in San Pedro.