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ON THE COVER:
Magnificent view of the Iowa -class battleship USS Wisconsin during 1980. (USN)

FEATURES:

CURIOUS CASE OF THE SS EASTLAND DISASTER
What are all the facts behind the worst maritime disaster is American history? / by Marshall Wainwright

THE US NAVY AND OPERATION DOMINIC
How the US Navy and US Air Force cooperated in a series of 36 above ground blasts — including the first live firing of a Polaris missile with an armed nuclear warhead / by Nicholas A. Veronico

ATTACK THE OTRANTO BARRAGE!
In an unusual naval battle from the Great War, the Austria Navy attempts to destroy a line of Allied drifters and their U-Boat nets / by Lazlo Harady

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE USS TURNER?What caused a near-new WWII destroyer to blow apart off the shore of New York? / by Robert Winslow

FLEET WEEK SFO!
Fighting thick fog banks, the ships and aircraft of the US Navy still managed to show the flag /by Roger Cain

THEIR GUNS WERE ALWAYS READY
The USS Iowa heads to war in Korea / by James Thompson

DEPARTMENTS:

MUSEUM NEWS
Visiting an historic lighthouse

INTEL FILE
Fat Leonard — the scandal that just keeps on growing

LOST AT SEA
Ships whose sailing days are definitely over / by Susan Duprey

YOUR NAVY
Latest images from the military’s top photojournalists / by Howard Carter

SEA MAIL
News and Views of the readers of Sea Classics