THe Iowa (BB61) saw action during the Korean war, along with all of her sister ships. During Vietnam, only the New Jersey (BB62) was still in service. It was put into mothballs after the Vietnam war.

The Iowa's were brought back into service in the 1980's, heavily modified with upgraded weaponry. They were more of a floating artillery platform. Most of their 5" guns were removed in order to make room for Tomahawk Cruise missles.

The last Iowas to see action were the Missouri (BB63) and the Wisconsin (BB64). Both shelled Iraqi targets in Kuwait and Iraq during the first Gulf War.

Well If you do some lookin up the L class is a real ship.

The DDX is a ship in the making by the USN. It is soppose to have missles.

Actually LordMichael, an Iowa class ship stayed in service in the USS Navy until after the vietnam war. It was the last true Battleship class in the navy, and was used for offshore fire mission, blasting NVA defences during the Tet Offensive.

Just a lil history there.

I wouldn't call it ugly, I'd just call it... Different :D

it's so wide

A bloody ugly ship if I ever saw one. You just can't go into battle looking like an oil tanker.

Malcheus look in some of the nation specific forums people where doing google map searches looking for large ships (i think so far they have found the iowa and a couple of CA's)

You are correct bperl1 I got my treaties mixed up. :)

Would be bad luck if they got hit between the 2 turrets and into the ammo room.

Actually it wasn't due to restrictions set by the Treaty of Versailles (that only restricted future German shipbuilding), but rather the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. It restricted tonnage of future battleships to 35,000 tons, and placed building holiday on new ships. But it allowed the British to build two additional battleships with 16" guns to balance the two American Colorado class ships.

Her odd design was so she could carry those 3 trip 16s and armor while still coming in under the 35,000 ton limit. Nelson was ~ 710' long, whereas Hood was some 150' longer, weighed about 10,000 tons more, and had less extensive armor protection.

Though as odd as the Nelsons are, even odder are the post treaty French Dunkerques and Richlieus, which carried their main guns in two quad turrets forward.