Re: Sea Power

Posted by dhermesc on February 01, 2007 at 09:47:23 from (24.248.193.103):

In Reply to: Re: Sea Power posted by E.B. Haymakin' on February 01, 2007 at 08:18:14:

They've all been retired since 1991 or so. The Wisconson (Norfolk, VA), New Jersey (Camden, N.J) and Missouri (Pearl Harbor) are all War Memorials and serve in some manner as a stategic reserve but they have almost no chance of ever being reactivated, key peices of equipment have not been produced since the 1940s and their last tours of duty used up much of the Navy's on hand parts.

The USS Iowa was decommission in 1990 after an explosion in turrent number two. The turrent was never repaired due to the massive cost. The navy officially struck USS Iowa from the Naval Vessel Register (NVR) 17 March 2006. This is likely the first step in preparing Iowa for her ultimate transfer for use as a museum ship. For several years plans had been under way to berth the Iowa in San Francisco, California, opening the battleship there as a museum; however, in 2005 San Francisco’s city council, citing opposition to the Iraq War and the military's policies regarding homosexuals, voted 8-3 against maintaining Iowa in the city. Apparently they are opposed to history books that proclaim the US won World War 2.

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