The Battleship (spoilers)

I'm still wondering where that Iowa class battleship came from (they are few and far between) and making one operational would be a tremendous feat by any navy.

And didn't she disappear without a trace in a cove once? Did they ever explain that?

From Wikipedia on the fate of the 4 commissioned Iowa class battleships: Iowa preserved as memorial in San Pedro, California; Missouri preserved as memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Wisconsin preserved as memorial in Norfolk, Virginia; New Jersey preserved as memorial in Camden, NJ; Illinois cancelled and scrapped on slip (bell currently at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's Memorial Stadium (Champaign), home of the Illinois Fighting Illini football team, traditionally rung when the Illini score a touchdown); Kentucky launched 1950, not completed, scrapped 1958.

They never mentioned any of the Iowa class battleships being stolen or sold to another nation. Just kind of bothered me.