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2. USS Missouri (BB-63) - Wikipedia

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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. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled ...

3. List of battleships of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   Missouri (BB-63), famous for being the ship on which the Japanese instrument of surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommissioned on 31 March 1992. Seven of these ten ships are still in existence. South Dakota,Washington and Indiana were scrapped, but the remainder are now museum ships.

4. 1950 USS Missouri grounding - Wikipedia

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   Outcome. Battleship hull damaged. 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 ...

5. Armament of the Iowa-class battleship - Wikipedia

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   The primary armament of an Iowa -class battleship consisted of nine breech-loading 16 inch (406 mm)/50-caliber Mark 7 naval guns, [1] which were housed in three 3- gun turrets: two forward and one aft in a configuration known as "2-A-1". The guns were 66 feet (20 m) long - 50 times their 16-inch (406mm) bore, or 50 calibers, from breechface to ...

6. Iowa-class battleship - Wikipedia

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   The Iowa class was a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940. They were initially intended to intercept fast capital ships such as the Japanese Kongō class and serve as the "fast wing" of the U.S. battle line. [3][4] The Iowa class was designed to meet the Second London Naval Treaty 's "escalator clause ...

7. South Dakota-class battleship (1939) - Wikipedia

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   The South Dakota class was a group of four fast battleships built by the United States Navy. They were the second class of battleships to be named after the 40th state; the first were designed in the 1920s and canceled under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty. Four ships comprised the class: South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Alabama.