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June 27, 1940 – The keel of the U.S.S. battleship Iowa is laid in New York City.
With the threat of war all around us, the U.S. Navy ordered six new state-of-the-art battleships in 1939. The BB-61 would be the most powerful warship ever to sail the seas. On June 27, 1940, the keel of the first ship was laid into place in the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn. That warship is christened the U.S.S. Iowa.
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