Photo by Brittany Murray / Staff Photographer San Pedro pulled out all the stops on June 9, 2012, when the World War II battleship USS Iowa was towed into the Port of Los Angeles, a floating ...

The USS Iowa took a significant step forward this week when the House of Representatives voted for the World War II battleship in San Pedro to become the first National Museum of the Surface Navy.

McCrea spewed his coffee out on the bridge of the USS Iowa when one of his ... of Los Angeles along Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro. The naval gray battleship floats gently beside the dock as ...

The mothballed, mighty Iowa, one of the world ... to the sailor’s family. Battleship enthusiast Robert Kent of the Pacific Battleship Center in San Pedro persuaded the Navy to reopen competition ...

Or cheaply. Still, a move for the Battleship USS Iowa has been actively talked about and planned for several years and now is getting a renewed push as San Pedro examines how its waterfront ...

Johnson, along with other USS Iowa veterans and survivors ... David Canfield now runs the Pacific Battleship Center in San Pedro. At the time of the explosion Canfiled served as a 3rd class ...

The USS Iowa took a significant step forward this week when the House of Representatives voted for the World War II battleship in San Pedro to become the first National Museum of the Surface Navy.

The USS Iowa took a significant step forward this week when the House of Representatives voted for the World War II battleship in San Pedro to become the first National Museum of the Surface Navy.