USS Iowa

Interesting day, found out that the USS Iowa was pulled out of the mothball fleet and is being restored at the Port of Richmond.  I guess they have been working on it for the past couple of months with unofficial tours of the ship happening on the weekends.  Well this weekend is the last weekend that it will be at the Port of Richmond since they will be moving it to San Pedro, CA.  Read more at: USS Iowa.

This was also the first time the public was able to go inside the ship.  There was very little open and there was still a lot of scaffolding up, but the one thing that I noticed is the head room was lower then even the carriers or submarines that I have visited.  Really strange.

So here it is.  This is a shot of 3 pictures combined together.  (See the panoramic post earlier.)

I also wanted to see how well the panoramic software worked.  Here I zoomed in a bit and took more pictures.  This is a composite of 46 photos.  I still have to work on how the software works to see how to fill in the sky since I did not actually take pictures of it.  (If I did take pictures of it, there where no features for the software to line up.  But there may have been tricks to deal with that too.)

This is from the other side.  Single shot.

Now for the on deck shots.  Only a portion of the deck was open and temporary boards where in place to help walking.
Now for the sizes.  Those turret are big.

The rooms are small.  This looked like a triage room or infirmary.  The room cluster here was a small head, office desk and a small room with this room off it.  My daughter can hardly stand in the room.

Overall it was fun.  It will really be neat when more of the ship gets refurbished.  Heck the turrets above still had 'wet paint' on them.  They where just finished earlier this week.