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USS Iowa Battleship(BB61) 16 inch guns huge accident (Explosion)1989 4/19

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USS Iowa Battleship 16 inch guns accident in 1989
Turret #2 Exploded & killed 47 Sailors. April 19th, 1989.
On 19 April 1989, an explosion of undetermined cause ripped through her Number Two sixteen-inch gun turret killing 47 crewmen. Iowa was still able to deploy to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in mid-year. Turret Two remained unrepaired when she decommissioned in Norfolk, Va., for the last time 26 October 1990.

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  • Wow. It's amazing how most of the comments are, one way or another, focused on who did what wrong. Yes, the Navy shouldn't have drawn the conclusions that they did. Yes, mistakes were made. But does bickering about it bring any of them back? We learned from this mistake and the new standards ensure this won't happen again. The last thing the memory of these 47 men needs is a bunch of (mostly non-Navy) youtube users to bicker about how the hell everything was handled. It's over and done.

  • aw fuck, it's in chinese

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  • May they rest in peace

  • @dregh94cr Actually, you probably make the same mistake i make:

    Today we use a lot of those bulky, aweful looking grey colored ships.

    but they are all Frigate classes, while this is a Battleship class.

    The armor on this ship is like 1-2 meters, and the one on the frigates is not even 50cm if im correct

  • @lucylulu7889 hi you dont know my but i was one of the survivors of the accident that day. im sorry for u lose. would you please email me ur fathers name. this is my daughters account my email is ussiowa_89@yahoo.com  my name is mike drowns.

  • @card797 you realize that shit happens is not a good reply considering half my div. and my two best friends were killed in shit happens have a little more respect

  • this is to lucylulu. Sorry to hear about your father I was one of the surviviors on the ussiowa also please e-mail me his name if you would my email address is ussiowa_89@yahoo.com my name is mike drowns

  • y u no aim ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

  • This is a ship not the shits of our modern days.

  • This is one peace of metal warfare....it sits in my backyard in Sansui bay along the ghost fleet.,She is magnificent,

  • This happened the day i was born

  • my dad was on this ship and he is 1 of the survivors but he dided in jan.

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