USS Iowa (BB-4)

The USS Iowa was commissioned in 1897, just in time for the Spanish American War. She was decommissioned and recommissioned several times, and during World War I was used as a training ship. After the war the Iowa, renamed Coast Battleship #4, became one of the first target ships controlled by radio. She was sunk by the USS Mississippi in 1923.

Image: “U.S. Battleship Iowa” published by A. C. Eosselman & Co. (pre-1907). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.