I know --- the "Mighty Mo" went right into use as a museum when it was stricken, while the Iowa spent a good decade rotting away in Suisun Bay, while the Navy and civilian authorities debated what to do with her.

I couldn't believe my luck when I heard that she found a home in San Pedro, which is probably the closest seaport in California to where I live.

The "Big Stick" gets lots of visitors though, and the museum is steadily profiting from it. Hopefully, they'll get her in ship shape pretty soon!

They actually lifted a Mk.7 turret completely off the Missouri?! 0.O

It would be interesting to find out how, because the complete turret weighs more than 2000 tons --- not an easy object to lift.

Awesome, thanks!

they did refit the turret so it can come back into service if needed, right?

Yeah, those things would be great- right up 'til a broadside of her mains turned them into ballistic objects . . .

"Target, air!"

"Identified, Coke© machine!"

It could be useful --- after the first hit on the Iowa, the contents of the machine will turn into a chaff cloud!

Overpressure would probably detonate all the bottles, too.

All the more chaff.

still nothgi on the level of the Texas in neglect and having to be rebuilt, her lforer decks were flooded and the sea had gotten in.

Not to belittle the crisis that the USS Texas is enduring, but the USS Olympia has WAY bigger problems;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy.....112404519.html

The museum's own proposed solution? Scuttle her!;
http://firstin.wordpress.com/2010/0.....e-the-olympia/

Yep, the very same staff whose members were caught embezzling $1.5 Million from the ship's funds, and who also allowed the Olympia to become so dilapidated in the first place.