Built in 1940, the USS Iowa served our country for over 50 years beginning with World War II, through the Korean Conflict, and into the 1980s to protect shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf.
Now, she makes her final journey from San Francisco to become a museum at the Port of Los Angeles.
The USS Iowa and her sister ships the Missouri, New Jersey, and Wisconsin were the last “ships of the line” like old, sea faring battle ships. (The sister ships are also now museums.)