Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
USS Iowa (BB-4) USS. Iowa. (BB-4) USS Iowa was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1890s. The ship was a marked improvement over the previous Indiana -class battleships, correcting many of the defects in the design of those vessels. Among the most important improvements were significantly better ...
The primary armament of an Iowa -class battleship consisted of nine breech-loading 16 inch (406 mm)/50-caliber Mark 7 naval guns, [1] which were housed in three 3- gun turrets: two forward and one aft in a configuration known as "2-A-1". The guns were 66 feet (20 m) long - 50 times their 16-inch (406mm) bore, or 50 calibers, from breechface to ...
Two American-built pre-dreadnought battleships, USS Mississippi (BB-23) and her sister USS Idaho (BB-24), were sunk in 1941 by German bombers during their World War II invasion of Greece. The ships had been sold to Greece in 1914, becoming Kilkis and Lemnos respectively.
USS. Iowa. (BB-61) USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana -class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in ...
The Kearsarge-class was a group of two pre-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1890s. The two ships— USS Kearsarge and USS Kentucky —represented a compromise between two preceding battleship designs, the low- freeboard Indiana class and the high-freeboard USS Iowa, though their design also incorporated several ...
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from April 20, 1989: Explosion aboard USS Iowa kills 47 sailors Historic front page from the Des Moines Register ...
The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital ships such as the Japanese KongÅ class and serve as the "fast wing" of the U.S. battle line. [3][4] The Iowa class was designed to meet the Second London Naval Treaty 's "escalator clause ...
The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns of the forward turret of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fire at enemy targets ashore on the Korean Peninsula on 30 January 1952 during the Korean War. Employees working with the automatic 16-inch powder stacking machine at Naval Ammunition Depot Hingham, Mass. during World War II.