To: americanophile
USS Iowa is sitting in Suisun Bay, mothballed... Yep. BB 61, Queen of the Sea, headed to the Port of San Pedro to be refurbished as an historic museum ship, but I'll bet the old lady still has some fight in her. Please note my tagline.
31 posted on
02/18/2011 7:46:57 PM PST by
ArmyTeach
(Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... Iowa 61)
To: ArmyTeach
I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: The Iowa class battleship is quite simply the prettiest thing ever put to sea. Great lines.
It’s probably cost prohibitive to rehab them thoroughly enough, and repower them as nuclear. But dang... if only we could build a couple of new ones... nuclear powered... armored to the hilt... some big guns... some missiles... [sigh]
The odd thing is that they’re probably the only ships in the inventory that might actually survive a modern missile strike.
35 posted on
02/18/2011 8:03:18 PM PST by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: ArmyTeach
Nice, and glad to hear she’ll be preserved!
56 posted on
02/18/2011 9:44:14 PM PST by
americanophile
("The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon." - George Washington)
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