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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 during later wars.

About 600 people from Iowa are expected to attend the commission event, including dozens of Navy veterans who served on the battleship USS Iowa.