NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The USS Iowa lives to fight another day.
The Navy has christened the fourth warship to bear the name of the Hawkeye state. The ceremony took place last Saturday in Groton, Connecticut.
This time, it's a Virginia-class, nuclear-powered fast attack submarine.
The new Iowa is the 24th of 37 planned Virginia class subs.
The class construction is a joint effort between Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding and General Dynamics Electric Boat.
The previous USS Iowa was a Norfolk-based World War II-era battleship which met tragedy. 47 sailors were killed when that ship's Number Two turret exploded in 1989, during peacetime operations off Puerto Rico.