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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Iowa (Battleship # 4), 1897-1923.
Later renamed Coast Battleship # 4.
USS
Iowa, a 11,410-ton battleship built at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, was commissioned in June 1897. She operated along
the Atlantic seaboard for the rest of that year and into 1898.
During the Spanish-American War
Iowa served off Cuba and
on 3 July 1898 played an important role in the Battle of Santiago,
an action that destroyed Spain's naval power in the Western Hemisphere.
In October of that year, a few months after the conflict's end,
the battleship was sent around South America to join the Pacific
Squadron. She served along the West Coast until February 1902,
when she began a year with the South Atlantic Squadron.
Iowa's return to the U.S. Atlantic Coast in early 1903
was followed by an overhaul and, from late 1903 until mid-1907,
active service with the North Atlantic Fleet. She was then placed
in reserve, recommissioning in May 1910 after a modernization
that gave her a new "cage" mainmast. The next four years
were spent on training service, including taking Naval Academy
Midshipmen to European waters . Again out of commission from May
1914 until April 1917,
Iowa was employed during the First
World War as Receiving Ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and
as a training and guard ship in the Chesapeake Bay region.
Decommissioned at the end of March 1919, the now thoroughly-obsolete
Iowa was renamed
Coast Battleship No. 4 a month
later in order to free her name for use on the new
South
Dakota class battleship BB-53. In 1920 the old warrior
was converted to the Navy's pioneer radio-controlled target ship.
While serving in this role, she was sunk by the guns of USS
Mississippi in March 1923.
This page features selected views of USS Iowa (Battleship
# 4) as she was from 1897 to 1909, and provides links to other
views concerning this ship, both as a battleship and as a target
ship.
For other images related to this ship, see:
USS Iowa (Battleship # 4) --
Views taken circa August 1898;
USS Iowa (Battleship # 4) --
Views taken circa 1910-1920;
USS Iowa (Battleship # 4) --
Actions and Activities, 1897-1919;
USS Iowa (Battleship # 4) --
Views On Board Ship; and
Coast Battleship No. 4 (ex-
USS Iowa, Battleship # 4) -- As a Target Ship, 1921-1923.
Please click on the above links for more great pictures!
