Battleship USS Iowa
The USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship berthed in San Pedro. Its tours and exhibits focus on telling the story of the Iowa, the LA Waterfront and the Surface Navy. The 887-foot long ship was launched from the New York Naval Yard on August 27, 1942. It was the lead ship of its class and the last lead ship of any United States battleship class. It was the only ship of its class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. It also served in the Pacific during WWII and the Korean Conflict. Until it was decommissioned in 1990, Iowa’s service also took it across the Arctic Circle and into the Mediterranean, Baltic and North Seas. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt and others on the first leg of the journey to the Tehran Conference, a strategy meeting with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in late 1943.
San Pedro, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Lori Norman