lwerthe1mer wrote:
Docked in Norfolk, Virginia, when I took this photo in 2008.
Interesting story about the Wisconsin...
Seems she was in a collision in 1956 and the front of the hull was damaged. The fifth of the Iowa-Class battleships was the Kentucky, under construction when the war ended, but then cancelled. The front section of the Kentucky’s bow was used to repair the Wisconsin. The Wisconsin was then sometimes referred to as the Wisky.