One by one, the names of the 47 sailors killed on the then-Norfolk-based USS Iowa on April 19, 1989 were read. Watch: Ceremony commemorates 35th anniversary of explosion on USS Iowa Ceremony ...

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.

It has been 35 years since the explosion on the then-Norfolk-based USS Iowa that killed 47 sailors. The Iowa had been preparing for exercises off the coast of Puerto Rico when a gun turret on the ...

A ceremony marking 36 years since a gun turret explosion killed 47 sailors onboard USS Iowa took place Saturday. <a href="https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/norfolk ...

The USS Iowa 36th Commemoration Ceremony will be held at Naval Station Norfolk on Saturday. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives after a gun turret ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion thirty-six years ago. So glaring were the problems with the post-explosion inquiry that Congress commissioned agencies ...

The USS Iowa was the lead ship of the last fleet of battleships built by the U.S. Navy, which battled at sea during World War II and the Korean War and was the site of a turret explosion that kill ...

Iowa now has a new Navy vessel honoring the Hawkeye State. A Virginia-class submarine, the USS Iowa ... retired in 1990 following a tragic turret explosion. It's now a floating museum in at ...

A ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk Friday morning honored the lives lost aboard the USS ... Iowa veterans, including one who was tasked with going into the turret and helping respond to the explo ...