Archival Photo
A2011-001.1484 : The Bow and Stern of the USS Iowa in dry dock
Thursday, December 31, 1908
A2011-001
AP/87078
Date is circa. This was a United States Navy battleship. Launched in 1896, it was the first ship commissioned in honor of Iowa and was America's first seagoing battleship. Iowa saw substantial action in the Spanish–American War. While she was an improvement over the Indiana class because of a superior design, the warship became obsolete quickly in the first quarter of the 20th century and was used for target practice and sunk on 23 March 1923 in Panama Bay by a salvo of 14-inch shells.
