The ship had been docked in the Suisun Bay mothball fleet since 2001, and some naval enthusiasts hoped to transform it into a museum on San Francisco's waterfront. The city's Board of Supervisors voted against the idea in 2005, however, with opponents saying such a museum amounted to an endorsement of sorts for the Iraq war and for the ban that existed at the time on gays and lesbians in the military.



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The Iowa, last U.S. battleship, leaving Bay Area (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/18/BAQN1OK8EI.DTL)

The ship had been docked in the Suisun Bay mothball fleet since 2001, and some naval enthusiasts hoped to transform it into a museum on San Francisco's waterfront. The city's Board of Supervisors voted against the idea in 2005, however, with opponents saying such a museum amounted to an endorsement of sorts for the Iraq war and for the ban that existed at the time on gays and lesbians in the military.



Read more: The Iowa, last U.S. battleship, leaving Bay Area (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/18/BAQN1OK8EI.DTL#ixzz1vVc9YT2v)

The Iowa, last U.S. battleship, leaving Bay Area (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/18/BAQN1OK8EI.DTL)

Yeah, let's concentrate on that and not the history it has.