Introduction: historical perspective of Iowa class battleships
The world's battleships: 20th century icons of the sea
Inspiration, design and building of the American Iowa class battleship
The USS Iowa in combat: World War II: almost sunk by the USS William D Porter DD-579 ("Don't shoot, we're Republicans")
Recalled for the Korean Conflict (1952)
The Iowa class changes (1956 onward)
The Soviet sea menace the Kirov class battlecruiser
Countering the Kirov: the controversial modernized Iowa class of the 1980's
Tragedy strikes the Iowa in 1989 : flareback in turret # two and forty seven of the crew is killed
The end of the line for the USS Iowa - the battle for the ship as a museum (final decommissioning of the great ship & the tow from Rhode Island to California). The future of the worlds last active battleship.