The USS Missouri (BB-63), one of the four legendary Iowa-class battleships, is an icon of American naval might. -Many experts ...

During a routine test aboard the USS Iowa, Turret Two was preparing to fire its massive 16-inch guns. While the right and left guns were loaded, an issue arose with the center gun, prompting a ...

It's been 30 years since an explosion inside the number two gun turret on the USS Iowa killed 47 American sailors.

Twenty-five years ago Saturday, an explosion in the No. 2 gun turret aboard the USS Iowa – which is now a floating museum in San Pedro – killed 47 sailors and resulted in an investigation that ...

On the morning of April 19, 1989 — 35 years ago today — a horrific explosion and fire ripped through the No. 2 gun turret of the Norfolk-based battleship USS Iowa. The turret erupted in flames ...

NORFOLK, Va. — USS Iowa veterans gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday morning for their annual tribute to their fallen fellow sailors on the battleship. One by one, the names of the 47 ...

The battleship ferried Franklin Roosevelt to a historic meeting during World War II and parried Russians in the Cold War. Now the USS Iowa is setting course for a second life as a museum.

Because of the premature and intemperate remarks of commentators and “guests” that followed the USS Iowa accident, one would believe that turret two had been firing and was the victim of a ...

The actionable finding from that disgraceful episode is this: never dissemble, even to defend a venerable institution.

Military News USS Iowa memorial ceremony remembers fallen sailors of 1989 explosion The USS Iowa commemoration at Naval Station Norfolk will honor 47 sailors lost in a 1989 explosion.

On April 19, 1989, an explosion aboard the battleship claimed the lives of 47 crewmen. The ship's Number Two turret blew up during a gunnery exercise off the coast of Puerto Rico.

NORFOLK, Va. — When they carried their fallen comrades out of the smoldering gun turret, sailors aboard the USS Iowa might have removed some of the most important evidence of the cause of the ...