Jenny Sova: Battleship IOWA Chief of Staff
Jenny Sova joined our team in 2017 as director of planning for LA Fleet Week. Currently, she's Battleship IOWA's chief of staff. We dragged this wonderful, fun lady away from her crazy-busy schedule to chat about what it's like to stage an event as large as LA Fleet...
CEO Update 8 May 2022
Hull Preservation | Only 3 Weeks Left We are extremely grateful for everyone who has donated to the hull preservation campaign. Your generosity has supported the efforts of our crew taking on the immense job at hand, but we remain quite a distance from hitting our...
George Musulin: Battleship IOWA’s Electrician
Battleship IOWA's crew is full of unique individuals who've come together to create a rather extraordinary team. That team is full of interesting characters... like our electrician, George Musulin.He's been around for years, and we'd like to put in a pithy description...
Homecoming: 1980s Crew Members Return To Battleship IOWA
If you've been following this podcast, you know that April 19 is an important date for our organization. It is our time to celebrate the lives of 47 sailors lost on that day in 1989.For the last two years, Covid forced us to hold the ceremony as a mainly virtual...
Museum Update 27 April 2022
Hull Preservation | What Makes It So Critical You likely caught the sad recent news about USS The Sullivans. Our hearts go out to our friends in Buffalo and we wish them all speed in righting and restoring this important naval vessel. We've been talking in our updates...
USS THE SULLIVANS And Hull Maintenance
The museum ship industry was saddened recently to see heartbreaking images of the Fletcher-class destroyer USS THE SULLIVANS (DD-537) with a starboard list so significant, her decks were awash almost to the ship's centerline. No armchair quarterbacking here. For this...
CEO Update 19 April 2022
Hull Preservation | Spreading The Word We're getting closer to our achieving our goal (we matched the $5K gift!) but we still have a long way to go to hit our campaign goal. You can help by donating and spreading the word. Speaking of spreading the word... some easy...
CIO David Canfield: Your Story Is Bigger Than Your Trauma
On April 19, 1989 at 9:55 AM local time, the center gun on USS Iowa's Turret II suffered an open breech explosion (technically a deflagration). 47 sailors working within the turret perished.Vice President and Chief Information Officer David Canfield was a...
Museum Update 13 April 2022
Hull Preservation | Spreading The Word We're getting closer to our achieving our goal (we matched the $5K gift!) but we still have a long way to go to hit our campaign goal. You can help by donating and spreading the word. Speaking of spreading the word... some easy...
Ready? Here We Go
Welcome to the official podcast for the National Museum of the Surface Navy! Our first episode will introduce you to our regular panelists and set the stage for conversations to come. President & CEO Jonathan WilliamsVice President & COO Mike GetscherVice...
CEO Update 5 April 2022
Hull Preservation | Gift Match Opportunity The crew aboard Battleship IOWA is actively working to abate the deterioration of the ship's hull at the wind and water line. We just received a $5,000 commitment toward our goal, but we need your help to match this amount to...
Museum Update 29 March 2022
Hull Preservation We're getting closer to our achieving our goal, but we still need your help to support the work on our hull. You can see the need below. Every dollar counts! This week, we'll get a little more - forgive the metaphor - in depth on cofferdams and how...
CEO Update 22 March 2022
We Need Your Help To Keep IOWA Afloat Battleship IOWA serves as an iconic community platform for hundreds of thousands of students, service members, and community stakeholders each year. The expansion of our mission to become the National Museum of the Surface...
Museum Update 16 March 2022
We Need Your Help To Keep IOWA Afloat Battleship IOWA serves as an iconic community platform for hundreds of thousands of students, service members, and community stakeholders each year. The expansion of our mission to become the National Museum of the Surface Navy...
CEO Update 8 March 2022
Help Us Meet Our Goal And Beat Last Year's Total Thanks to all the fantastic supporters who donated last year, we raised a remarkable sum: nearly $100,000 for hull preservation in about two months! These dollars are hard at work, and over the next month we'll show...
