“With the swollen Mississippi, could the Iowa make it upstream to her namesake state?”
Not a chance. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know the depth of the Mississippi, but I know the draft of the Iowa is 32 feet. When I served on the Iowa, very few ports we visited could handle that. We had to drop anchor and take ferrys to the shore.
I sure wish it were possible....
Thanks..it was whimsical thinking on my part...BTW, as I was reading your post I realized that even if she could float upriver, her superstructure probably wouldn’t clear most of the bridges over the Mississippi..