Sponsor Mrs. Wallace breaks a bottle of champagne on battleship Iowa's bow, signaling the ship to be launched. F1111C163

Photograph

Entry/Object ID

2B.8

Sponsor Mrs. Wallace breaks a bottle of champagne on battleship Iowa's bow, signaling the ship to be launched. F1111C163 picture number 1

Pacific Battleship Center dba
National Museum of the Surface Navy
at the Battleship IOWA
250 S. Harbor Blvd.
Los Angeles (San Pedro), CA 90731

877.446.9261
310.971.4462

© 2026 Pacific Battleship Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with programs including Battleship IOWA, National Museum of the Surface Navy, LA Fleet Week, LA Disaster Recovery and Resilience Collective, Life of a Sailor, and Freedom of the Seas.

Manage Cookie Consent

We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.

Functional Functional Always active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Manage options
Manage services
Manage {vendor_count} vendors
Read more about these purposes

Preferences

{title}
{title}
{title}