(Reuters)-Richmond, California battleship, Iowa, once through the victory and tragedy at sea in its final voyage set on Saturday, a brigade, in 60 years of the Los Angeles, become a museum.
With a loud shout for joy, a helmet's volunteers from the last Richmond harbor in 175-feet-high grey fearless thick thread play... And then it slowly fell to the San Francisco bay area, in three tug gargantuan it.
Onlookers gathered in groups of the ship sailing on the golden gate bridge.
This is a sentimental send-off to Iowa, see the conflict in the world, the United States navy before retiring in 1990, services and sales non-profit Pacific warships center in May 2010.
On 17 in Los Angeles committee voted ship in the city's port, will decline the July 7 springboard to public set up a permanent home.
Due to the Iowa leadership to San Francisco bay, audience in Iowa legend the story of the past. It carries the late President franklin Roosevelt across the Atlantic, he and Churchill and Stalin the historic meeting in world war ii.
Warships equipped with the special bath crock-part of the Roosevelt paralyzed and polio leg-it still retain after in the boat.
Later in the war, his victory in dao lousy the 16-inch guns allied landing beachhead in the Pacific, and participated in the gulf of Japan's surrender in 1945 part. In the 1950 s during the Korean war, it attacks and bombing gun.
Not all from Iowa memory is so victory. In its turret explosion killed, and 1989 47 sailor. Next year, the navy commissioned in Iowa, together with the other three the rest of the battleship, Missouri, Wisconsin and New Jersey, its reserve fleet.
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, the Pacific warships center President Robert Kent said: "have to do more active in all over the world of the ship naval presence,". "They have been sunk, scrap or turned into the museum, Iowa is the last of the battleship, in order to find a home."
Dozens of volunteers took several months of renovation, the ultimate victory in action, including at least three men on the bear.
"This is a bigger privilege, not what I can express, said:" David Campbell at anfield, 42, who was first assigned to Iowa in 1987 as the rated firefighters in under the age of 17.
Candy to anfield on Iowa is 1989 years of explosion, to join in the relevant in Iowa life memories: Marty Palmiere and Michael McEnteggert. They talked of into the sea to play golf and it's a deck "steel beach" for a picnic.
"So many memories are all here," McEnteggert said, the ship's last ride the first three fry.
Victory in decay as politicians trying to decide by its future. Some turrets had been removed, radar towers demolished.
The paint is peeling, rust is everywhere, "Bob said Rogers Pacific warships center. "A lot of metal rusted through, so it is very important we save her."
Iowa donated $3 million and private sources and provides loan $1.5 million renovation. Mr Rogers estimates, these donations, along with the 25000 hours of volunteer and donated supplies and equipment, add up to $7 million.
Our goal is to restore its first in 1943 when entrusted conditions, but its appearance not equipped with modern weapons, such as tomahawk missiles, the second committee in 1984 years later camphor ball in 26 years in the past to spend 887 feet of the ship.
Mr Rogers said, despite extensive repair, not according to their own strength victory in Los Angeles with navy contract steam for banned it. Navy don't want their control of the full operation outside the power of ships.
In Iowa is about 6 miles per hour speed to continue down the California coast, 38 miles per hour of a small part, it can make in its heyday.




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