Ship recommissioned
NZPA-Reuter Pascagoula The United States Navy has recommissioned the lowa, the second of four World War II battleships being brought back into the fleet, fitted with new missiles and sophisticated electronics. Vice-President George Bush presided at the ceremony at Ingalls shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where the 58,000-ton vessel, built in New York in 1940, was refitted at a
SUS4OO million (about $612 million.) The lowa, armed with 4« cm guns, is now fitted with long-range missile launchers and the latest electronic warfare equipment. Another battleship, the New Jersey, was brought out of mothballs and recommissioned in 1982. She has served off the coast of Central America and Lebanon, where she fired her big guns at hostile positions around Beirut.
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Press, 9 May 1984, Page 4
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