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2. USS Iowa (BB-61) - Wikipedia

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   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 Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

3. Iowa-class battleship - Wikipedia

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   USS Iowa in World War II configuration and wearing Measure 32 Design 1B camouflage pattern, c. 1944. The Iowa-class battleships are 860 ft 0 in (262.13 m) long at the waterline and 887 ft 3 in (270.43 m) long overall with a beam of 108 ft 2 in (32.97 m).

4. Armament of the Iowa-class battleship - Wikipedia

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   The first Iowa-class ship was laid down in June 1940; in their World War II configuration, each of the Iowa-class battleships had a main battery of 16-inch (406 mm) guns that could hit targets nearly 20 statute miles (32 km) away with a variety of artillery shells designed for anti-ship or bombardment work. The secondary battery of 5-inch (127 ...

5. United States Navy reserve fleets - Wikipedia

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   Mothballed ships in Suisun Bay, California (2010). The battleship USS Iowa at the right-side end of the group has since become a restored museum ship in San Pedro, Los Angeles. The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the maintenance activity have ...

6. USS Iowa turret explosion - Wikipedia

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   Position of USS Iowa's Turret Two. On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. [1] The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret ...

7. Former Iowa Senate leader honored with inaugural award for ...

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   The ships saw action in World War II and were retired after the first Gulf War in 1991, according to Battleship Iowa’s website. The USS Iowa, which is now a museum in Los Angeles, is the city ...