USS Missouri (BB-63)
Service
- 11 June 1944 — 31 March 1992448 days of the war
- Name
- USS Missouri
- Pennant / hull number
- BB-63
- Namesake
- State of Missouri
- Builder
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
- Ordered
- 12 June 1940
- Laid down
- 6 January 1941
- Launched
- 29 January 1944
- Commissioned
- 11 June 1944
- Decommissioned
- 26 February 1955
- Recommissioned
- 10 May 1986
- Struck
- 12 January 1995
- Fate
- Museum ship in Pearl Harbor
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, full load
- 57,540 long tons (58,463 t)
- Length
- 270.36 m (887 ft) OA
- Beam
- 32.92 m (108 ft)
- Draught
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Speed
- 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h, 37.4 mph)
- Range
- 15,000 nmi (27,780 km)
- Complement
- 1,921
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) stands moored to a pier at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Missouri is in Hawaii to take part in the observance of the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The 24th State, admitted to the Union 10 August 1821, Missouri was named for the Missouri River, an Indian name meaning "muddy waters."
The third Missouri (BB-63) was laid down on 6 January 1941 at Brooklyn, N.Y., by the New York Navy Yard; launched on 29 January 1944; sponsored by Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of then-Senator from Missouri Harry S Truman; and commissioned on 11 June 1944, Capt. William M. Callaghan in command.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Missouri III (BB-63)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 4 × geared steam turbines
- 4 × screw propellers
- Power
- 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 212000 shp
- Armament
- 3 × triple 16 in guns
- 10 × twin 5 in DP guns
- 20 × quadruple 40 mm AA guns
- 49 × single 20 mm AA guns
- Armour
- Waterline belt: 12.1 in
- Bulkheads: 14.5 in
- Barbettes: 11.6 - 17.3 in
- Turrets: 19.5 in
- Decks: 4.75-6.2 in
1986
- Complement
- 1,515
- Main gun
- 406 mm (16 in)
- Armament
- 3 × triple 16 in guns
- 6 × twin 5 in DP guns
- 8 × quadruple BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles
- 4 × quadruple RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
- 4 × single 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Missouri (BB-63) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Missouri III (BB-63) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons