Freshly scrubbed and decked out in patriotic bunting, the USS Iowa battleship opens to the public on Saturday. After years of planning and work, the World War II icon begins its new life as an ...

The USS Iowa battleship reached an important milestone on Monday.The United States Navy officially transferred the Iowa to the private group in charge of restoring her during a ceremony in ...

Summary and Key Points: The Battleship USS New Jersey, the most decorated warship in U.S. Navy history, is back and better than ever following a $10 million restoration. -This summer, the Iowa ...

The USS Iowa is a legendary battleship built to defend America during WWII. ... a model which is still on display. Now, with the state helping the ship escape the mothball fleet, ...

Soon, the USS Iowa won't just be a piece of history. Any Iowan who has toured the state Capitol is familiar with the World War II-vintage battleship that bore that name: The 18 1/2 foot, 1,350 ...

There is also a scale model of the latest USS Iowa battleship in the statehouse rotunda and the state leases it every year. If the Navy makes a scale model of this new submarine, Branstad hopes to ...

Video above: Guide to which central Iowa cities allow consumer fireworks. Photos from the event show fireworks bursting in the air as the 45,000-ton ship sits in its permanent spot as a museum in ...

The ship was one of four Iowa-class battleships, the last battleships commissioned by the U.S. Navy. All became museums. The USS New Jersey, which opened to the public in Camden in October 2001 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The revitalization of USS Iowa Battleship Barrel #270 is complete, and it’s now ready to be moved to its final resting spot at Fort Story. The Veteran’s Association of ...

Also attending will be about 65 to 70 Navy veterans who served on the battleship USS Iowa, hull number BB-61, which served from World War II through the 1980s and is now a museum ship at the Port ...

The Philadelphia Ship Model Society, which was founded in 1931 and is devoted to the art of ship model building, will host its event on the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleship USS New ...