Posted on 10/05/2016 11:19:15 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
The USS Iowa may have been the first of the Iowa-class battleships to be commissioned, but she was the last battleship to retire permanently.
Once called the "Battleship of Presidents" (having hosted FDR, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush), the USS Iowa had the biggest guns on any U.S. Navy ship, used primarily for anti-aircraft missions: nine 16-inch guns mounted on three stacked turrets on the flight deck (capable of carrying 2000 tons of firepower).
She was the lead ship of the last class of battleships in the Navy, having served in three significant commissions: World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. And now, having emerged from the Navy's mothball fleet just four years ago, she has made the Port of LA in San Pedro her permanent home.
Join Field Agent Sandi Hemmerlein for a rare and immersive experience aboard the USS Iowa, now known as the Battleship Iowa Museum. In a "sleepover" excursion arranged exclusively for the Los Angeles Obscura Society—
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Tour from 4PM in the afternoon to 10AM the next day. Dinner and breakfast served.
$125.00
I'm thinking about going. Anyone else?
This entity, Atlas Obscura, is an amazing publication. I have seen one other Freeper using it.
Tour highlights here:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/events/a-night-on-the-battleship?mc_cid=64e6f76dac&mc_eid=c700ea6c3d
So....the Iowa had 9 giant 16 inch antiaircraft guns on it’s flight deck? Got it.
And the turrets were stacked. I though the Brits made some odd looking ships, but I gotta see this one.
If you could hit an aircraft with one no question it would be destroyed.
I think it would definitely make a point to the attacking planes.
The Iowa wasn’t destroyed by Kamikazes, so obviously those 16 inch antiaircraft guns on the flight deck worked.
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Yes, it is an overnight stay. First time for civilians.
And 2 kilotons of firepower in a 16 incher. I’m thinking he meant 2000 pound shells. The only nuke round it had carried and estimated 15-20 Kt.
This article is a tour de force of comedy. Can it also fly in space like in that Japanese cartoon?
But it is located in CA.
I didn’t serve aboard her, but was invited aboard her by her JAG when she made a port visit to Oslo, Norway back in the 80s when I was stationed there. Their JAG had a battle station in the CIC and he invited us down there too. Very impressive old girl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Uss_iowa_bb-61_pr.jpg
Among my most memorable memories was witnessing a broadside of Iowa’s nine 16 inch guns. My viewpoint was from the flight deck of the USS Saratoga, which couldn’t have been more than a quarter mile in trail behind and to starboard of the IOWA. The shock wave from that distance was impressive.
Maybe they loaded them with canister. Think about what a Zero would look like after flying through a cloud of one inch steel balls.
Flight deck???
Hmmmmm... now that you mention it, I have heard of a 16 gauge.
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