VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A nearly 70-foot-long barrel from the retired USS Iowa battleship will be transported to JEB Fort Story in Virginia Beach from an annex in Chesapeake Tuesday night.

The barrel's transportation comes after organizations put in years of work to honor veterans. The move itself will impact major roads in Hampton Roads. VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The revitalization ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A gun barrel used on the World War II-era battleship the U.S.S. Iowa that seemed destined for the scrapyard will get a second life in Virginia Beach, Virginia. A ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The USS Iowa’s gun barrel is being fully revitalized by Marine Specialty Painting, whose CEO has a special connection to the historic battleship. The project, which is a ...

Coast Defense Study Group, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving U.S. defense equipment, has worked with the Veteran’s Association of the USS Iowa to find the barrels new homes at memorials and ...

The USS Iowa Battleship's barrel began moving from the marine specialty painting facility in Portsmouth to Cape Henry in Virginia Beach Monday night. The 120-ton barrel moved on a special ...

The 120-ton gun barrel, which was used on the USS Iowa battleship, is the last of nine that remained at a storage facility in Chesapeake. It fired projectiles weighing 1,900 to 2,700 pounds with a ...

Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with ...

Exhibit A: the Navy’s colossal fumbling of the USS Iowa turret explosion thirty ... in battleship gunnery spaces—including other Iowa gun barrels, and in turrets on board fellow battlewagons.

There are more than two dozen watch parties in Iowa for Saturday's ceremony, as well as a live-stream set up on the USS Iowa Commissioning Committee. There are more than two dozen watch parties in ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Iowa 36th Commemoration Ceremony will be held at Naval Station Norfolk on Saturday. The 9:30 a.m. ceremony will remember and honor the 47 sailors who lost their lives ...