USS Iowa BB61 Resting Nicely

As Rough As It May Seem,It's Still Steady As You Go...


The battleshup USS Iowa was launched in 1942 and deactivated for the final time in 1990. It is currently being kept in storage at Suisun Bay.

Suisun Bay is a U.S. Navy ready-reserve storage facility located 30 or so miles from San Francisco, along the approach to the Sacramento Delta.

I was on this ship in July 1987 when it was docked in Fort Lauderdale. Those guns don't look to big from up here.

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Reserve Fleet locations