From the March 31, 2010, KITV Honolulu.
The USS Iowa will be leaving by the end of the year, one of the last US battleships to have fought in World War II and the last major warship in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.
After World War II, many ships were scrapped and others put into reserve, so-called Ghost Fleets, on both US coasts. There is also still one in Virginia. However, the federal government as announced they will be doing away with the one in San Francisco Bay.
However, these ships are now decaying and in many instances pose an environmental threat.
On March 31st, tugboats were dragging he SS Mission Santa Ynez, a World War II oil and fuel tanker used into the 1960s. It is the last of its kind.
Hopefully, somewhere there is another example of this sort of ship that has been preserved and used as a museum ship. It was not just our capital warships that won World War II. Without tankers, those big ships would go no where.
Save At Least One Example of Every Ship. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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