USS IOWA

D E E P

In Los Angeles to visit my brother and my son insisted on visiting the decommissioned battleship IOWA.

team getterdun

I would volunteer to be that dumb SOB that remained on-deck when they lit those big boys off.

D E E P

Turner River Terror

I'd like to be the on Shore Artillery Spotter... Make the Earth move..:grin

mindyabiness

Was mention made of the accident in the gun turret?
The 16" gun turret killed 47 people.

Westwall01

Been on the North Carolina......awesome stuff

mississippi mac

the Iowa was refitted in Pascagoula, ms at ingalls ship building yard....
it was tied up near the mouth of lake yazoo yacht basin...
we used to tie up in lake yazoo when we were doing regattas in 'goula...
we always made a swing by the ship on the way out to the race course...it was an amazing sight to see and has beautiful lines...
I had a bunch of film shots of her (lost in Katrina)...
I have a retired mechanical engineer on my racing crew that worked on the boat...
he said it was pretty awesome and has some teak planking from the deck at home....

Scoutboat

It's too bad that modern naval warfare made the battleship absolete.
Beautiful lines, there was no mistaking that ship for any other.
Jim

bullgator

Scoutboat wrote: »

It's too bad that modern naval warfare made the battleship absolete.
Beautiful lines, there was no mistaking that ship for any other.
Jim

Without a doubt. In 1988 I was stationed aboard the USS Long Beach (CGN-9) which took part in a RIMPAC exercise with the battleships New Jersey (BB-62) and Missouri (BB-63). The New Jersey pulled alongside for UnRep (underway replenishment, where ships pull abreast and are connected by cables and pallets of supplies are moved from one ship to the other). Most beautiful ship I have ever seen. Wide as a bathtub but somehow sleek. She actually sat lower in the water than us so we could see those beautiful teak decks. Worthless as **** on a boar hog in the modern Navy but I'm glad I got to sail along side her.

Mango Tango

She's a beast of a ship. Got to land on her half a dozen times during a med cruise in 1987. Lots of room to land an H3. We had heard that they had earlier tried shooting the big guns with an H3 parked on the back end. Several wind blown out.......bad idea. :huh