Photographic Moments of
U.S.S. Iowa's Passage Through San Francisco Bay
Photographic Moments of
U.S.S. Iowa's Passage Through San Francisco Bay
Trademark 2002
These photos show IOWA's intra-bay transit on April 21 to the Maritime Administration ("MARAD") Inactive Ship Facility in Suisun Bay. HSMPS film crews documenting this relocation were honored to receive and be accompanied by a personal representative from the Governor of IOWA, who met IOWA at the Golden Gate Bridge and accompanied our staff escorting the battleship into Suisun Bay, some 30 miles north of San Francisco. We are indebted to committee members George Bisharat amd Mike McWilliams and Karen Stollar for these photographs. The contents of this website are the property of HSMPS, there can be no reproduction without permission.
IOWA (above left) at sunrise, 1-mile inshore of Richmond Bridge in the Bay, and Doctor J.V. Martin, (above right), U.S.S. Iowa crew member and plankowner and representative for the Governor of Iowa, the Honorable Thomas J. Vilsack.
SEA VICTORY tows IOWA, escorted by a Coast Guard Cutter, past Vallejo and Mare Island.
For more photographs of IOWA's historic arrival, click here!