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forward and see the USS ARIZONA rounds from its massive guns. Teak holds
Memorial as it stretches 140 feet above up better than any other wood available.
and across the width of the sunken
battleship, still entombing 900 men. This GALLEY The Mighty Mo's galley
ship is extraordinary in its scale and cooked 6,000 meals every day. The crew
impression. You will never forget your could consume over 100,000 soda pops
visit there. The captions I've put on the per month. The word is that the food was
drawing of the “Mighty Mo” are as good - very good.
follows:
OFFICIAL SURRENDER SPOT OF
"THE MIGHTY MO" was launched on WORLD WAR II On the 01 Deck visitors
January 29, 1944, joining the Pacific Fleet can see exactly where the great war ended.
in November, 1944. On the 01 Deck in a The Surrender Plaque here on the 01 Deck
spot where visitors can now go, the reads: "USS Missouri. Over this spot on 2
official surrender of World War II was September 1945 the instrument of formal
signed. The ship also performed surrender of Japan to the allied powers
meritorious and proud naval service in the was signed thus bringing to a close the
Korean War and most lately in the 1991 second world war. The ship at that time
Persian Gulf War. She was was at anchor in Tokyo Bay, Latitude 350
decommissioned in 1955, put in mothballs 21' 17" North, Longitude 1390 45' 36"
at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, only to be East." From this spot visitors can look
recommissioned in 1986. After the forward and see the Arizona Memorial,
Persian Gulf War, in 1992 she was again and thus see the site of both the beginning
decommissioned, and brought to her final and the end of American involvement in
home at Pearl Harbor in 1998. World War II at the same time.
USS MISSOURI (BB 63) STATISTICS:
Class: Battleship (BB)Length: 887 feet, 3 SHIP'S POWER She's powered by eight
inches (308.2 meters)Beam: 108 feet, 8 massive boilers, running four electric
inches (33.1 meters)Draft Limit: 37 feet turbines turning massive propellers. This
(11.3 meters)Full Displacement: 57,271 enables her to cruise most efficiently at 16
tons Accommodations: 189 Officers, knots, but with a top speed of 33 knots. At
2,789 Enlisted 16 knots she uses 2000 gallons of fuel oil
per hour. Attop speed she uses over
TEAK WOOD DECK The USS 10,000 gallons per hour.
MISSOURI has a wooden deck. This is
because wood does not create static KAMIKAZE There is a spot on the
electricity, which could produce a spark, starboard side of the Mighty Mo's hull
which would potentially ignite the black where a Japanese pilot crashed his plane.
powder used to propel the 16" diameter Fortunately it did no significant damage to
