November 12, 1943, President Roosevelt and his senior advisers traveled on the President's yacht Potomac to the Norfolk area to board USS Iowa (BB-61). Destination: Teheran. Purpose: strategic meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
Security measures were elaborate. See the description here.
Iowa was fitted out with a bathtub in the Captain's quarters for the president's comfort. It remains aboard to this day.
This was not a peacetime cruise - German submarines and aircraft still menaced the seas.
USS Iowa - our newest, best armored and most powerful battleship, was the safest platform available for the president.
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