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Fred P. Moosally (born 4 October 1944) is a former captain in the United States Navy.During his naval career, Moosally served in many different assignments, including commander of a destroyer and the battleship USS Iowa.
USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
[3] [4] The Iowa class was designed to meet the Second London Naval Treaty's "escalator clause" limit of 45,000-long-ton (45,700 t) standard displacement. Beginning in August 1942, four vessels, Iowa , New Jersey , Missouri , and Wisconsin , were completed; two more, Illinois and Kentucky , were laid down but canceled in 1945 and 1958 ...
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from April 20, 1989: Explosion aboard USS Iowa kills 47 sailors Historic front page from the Des Moines Register ...
On 19 April 1989 the #2 Turret of the battleship USS Iowa exploded, resulting in the deaths of 47 sailors. At first, NCIS officials theorized that an improvised explosive device had been used in the turret, but this theory was later abondoned and the cause of the explosion, though never determined with certainty, is generally believed to have been static electricity igniting loose powder.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in January 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Everett Titterington died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Titterington left his Milford home on Thursday, Dec. 14, 1939, to enlist in the Navy.
Position of USS Iowa's Turret Two. On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. [1] The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret ...