Preserved WWII warships ?

I know about the U.S.S. New Jersey and the H.M.S. Belfast, of which I´ve seen both with my own eyes, but how many others are preserved ? Aren´t a couple more of the Iowa class BBs still existing as well ?

 

One of the Iowas is still in some dock, but I'm not sure whether the dispute over scrapping or preserving her has been solved yet and which way it's going... I believe they use it as a museum.

 

USS Missouri is in Hawaii
http://www.ussmissouri.com/

USS Wisconsin is in Norfolk, Virginia
http://www.usswisconsin.org/

USS Alabama is in Mobile, Alabama
http://www.ussalabama.com/

USS Massachusetts: http://www.battleshipcove.org/

USS North Carolina is in Wilmington, NC
http://www.battleshipnc.com/

HMS Belfast
http://www.iwm.org.uk/belfast/index.htm

USS Texas is in San Jacinto Battlefield near Houston Texas
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/battlesh/

There are some for starters...

 

Thanks Notmi. Plenty of BBs left I see. But wasn´t the U.S.S. Iowa preserved as well ?

Great video gallery at the U.S.S. Missouri site btw : http://www.ussmissouri.com/Video.aspx

 

USS Iowa is still around, in inactive ship facility in Suisun Bay, California.
From http://www.bobhenneman.info/iowapics.htm you can find some pictures of USS Iowa.

USS New Jersey is open for public.
http://www.bb62museum.org/whereto.html

Edit: Too much endingtags

 

And speaking of preserving warships, has there ever been a greater loss than the U.S.'s failure to preserve the original Enterprise? I always assumed it was scrapped in the rush to downsize the military immediately after WW II, but they kept it in mothballs until 1956 and then scrapped it! What a travesty.

 

With these big warships, as much as I want to see them preserved I can understand it if they get scrapped. They just cost a mighty lot of money mothballing in some harbour, not serving any purpose at all; if they had some kind of use for them it would be easier to preserve them but you could easily get close to history rape.

 

The worst part is, the ship was sold for scrapping to a *Japanese* company! Talk about adding insult to injury! :angry:

 

HOO HA! Yeah baby. That baby is parked right in downtown. You drive down the street and look over down another street and you see that thing looming above you and those 16 inchers pointing at you...Wow, it's great. It's next to Nauticus, a maritime museum (really good). You can visit and it and walk the deck. They also have a little museum about it. Never realized how big those babies were until I went on it (and this is from a guy who had been on many large naval vessels included a few aircraft carriers). It just looks so top heavy, it's crazy.
Ok, well if you're ever in Norfolk give me a call and we'll go see it together.

 

One day, when I got enough money and enough time, I'm going to visit some battleship museums at east coast. I'll make that call them

 

Sounds like a deal.
Yeah, when I have enough money and time, I'm visiting all the battlefields in Europe.

 

I visited the Alabama and Texas, very different worlds!!!!

 

Hey KKLover, you realise that basically means ALL of Europe...

 

yeah, yeah.
probably start with france, then move on to to belgium and netherlands, move on.....

 

I have visited USS NORTH CAROLINA, and I can tell you that she is one humongous ship! I have seen a modern aircraft carrier close up, and they are bigger, but a battleship has this feeling of...well, of mass, of power. Of "I am the best there is; messing with me is an incredibly bad idea." When they were moving her into her berth in the Cape Fear River, they had an accident. The ship's stern went faster than they had figured while they maneuvered her towards her berth, and it crushed a floating restaurant. I find that more than a little impressive.

 

I really want to see one of those before my short time here is over. I've only seen picturs and movies and such but already I understand where you get this feeling of "I won't mess with you, please believe me, why won't you believe me!"

I wonder what the people in that resaurant are going to tell when they get from the scene all soaky and shivering. "I had soup, steak and a battleship"? :lol:

 

Me and my dad want to go see the USS Mass at battleship cove. There is also a WWII destroyer at dock on diplay next to Old Iron Sides in Boston Harbour. I also know of a Submarine in at the Portsmouth Nave Base. The USS Albacore. You can go down in and explore. I think the the U-505 is on diplsy somewhere in the US.

 

A link showing preserved warships around world:
http://www.hnsa.org/index.htm

 

The ALABAMA is a great park/museum but took a bit of damage from Hurrican Ivan. Not really sure when they'll everything back to normal.

 

Been to the USS Hornet in San Fransisco. Definitly recomend it to everyone. It's massive and unles you have been on a carrier you just can't comprehend how BIG they really are.

Theres also a US WW2 sub in San Fran as well but couldn't get on that due to my female company at the time

FNG