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USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship.Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States.
USS Missouri (1841), a sidewheel frigate launched in 1841 and destroyed by fire in August 1843; USS Missouri (BB-11), a Maine-class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922. USS Missouri (BB-63), an Iowa-class battleship in service (variably) from 1944 to 1992; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II; now a floating war memorial ...
English: Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, 2 September 1945. Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, watches from the opposite side of the table.
The USS Missouri grounding occurred 17 January 1950 when the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) ran aground while sailing out of Chesapeake Bay. No one was injured, but the battleship remained stuck for over two weeks before being freed from the sand. The ship was so damaged that she had to return to port and enter dry dock for repairs.
Missouri completed her first 6-month deployment to the U.S. 6th Fleet on 20 December 2013. [10] In March 2014 Missouri made an 11-week-long surge deployment in the Northern Atlantic, just three months after her previous deployment [11] possibly linked to the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, which took place in March 2014. [12]
English: The USS Missouri fires 16-inch shell into enemy lines at Hungnam with a 3-gun salvo. December 26, 1950. (Navy) NARA FILE #: 080-G-426954 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1445 Cleared for public release.
English: "The Accidental Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar", lithograph, published by Ackermann & Co.The fire started on this day in 1843. In four hours, the steam frigate was reduced to a blackened and sinking hulk and finally at 03:20 in the morning of 27 August, the forward powder magazine exploded, destroying the burning ship.
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