Museum
Battleship USS IOWA
250 S Harbor Blvd, San Pedro, CA 90731, USA
Battleship that once ferried a wartime president across the Atlantic, now a floating museum.
This guide to Battleship USS Iowa, docked in Los Angeles, relives November 14, 1943, when a torpedo fired by mistake by the escorting destroyer William D. Porter raced toward the ship carrying a secretly traveling President Franklin Roosevelt. It follows the scramble to dodge the wake and the aftermath: the Porter's entire crew placed under arrest, a first in Navy history, and the joking warning that spread through the fleet for months afterward.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.