❖ BATTLESHIP USS MISSOURI "The Mighty MO" ❖

Battleship USS MISSOURI

888' of her in drydock at Puget Sound 

Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 1971.

She was in to have her bottom 

cleaned and painted, at a cost of 

$350,000. In 1970 the ship 

had 185,000 visitors.

AP Photo from the archives of the 

Saltwater People Log©

The USS MISSOURI
Length, 887' 3" x 108'2" x 28'11"
Speed 33 knots.
Displacement; 45,000.
Complement; 1,921.
Photo courtesy of the Battleship MISSOURI Memorial.
For more of her active duty, the website is HERE.

The USS MISSOURI was built at the Nw York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, where her keel was poured 6 Jan 1941.

1944: 29 January, she was christened at launch by Margaret Truman.
          11 June, the ship was commissioned as the USS MISSOURI.

1945: 2 September. Japan formally surrendered to the Allied Powers aboard the    MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay, ending WW II.

1953: 26 March. After completing his final mission, Cap. Edsall dies of a heart attack while entering port at Sasebo, Japan.

1955: 26 February. The MISSOURI was decommissioned and placed in mothballs at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, WA.

1971: The USS MISSOURI was named to the National Register of Historic Places.

1986: The MISSOURI was re-commissioned and underway in September for a historic around the world cruise.

1992: The ship was decommissioned for the second and final time.

1995: The MISSOURI was removed from the Navy's Ship Registry.

1998: The MISSOURI arrives off Waikiki as a donation to the USS MISSOURI Memorial Association (a Non-Profit.) 

1999: 29 January. The battleship opens to the public on Battleship Row, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.