USS MISSOURI BB-63 1944 BATTLE SHIP 1:1250 SCALE MOTOR CITY CLASSICS

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USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the U.S. state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship commissioned by the United States Navy in 1944 and is best remembered as the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, which ended World War II. Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June 1944. In the Pacific Theater of World War II, she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands, and she later fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. She was decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy reserve fleets (the “Mothball Fleet”), but reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the 600-ship Navy plan, and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Missouri received a total of 11 battle stars for service in World War II, Korea, and the Persian Gulf, and was finally decommissioned in 1992 after serving a total of 17 years of active service, but remained on the Naval Vessel Register until her name was struck in 1995. In 1998, she has donated to the USS Missouri Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Namesake: State of Missouri Ordered: 12 June 1940 Builder: Brooklyn Navy Yard Laid down: 6 January 1941 Launched: 29 January 1944 Sponsored by: Margaret Truman Commissioned: 11 June 1944 Decommissioned: 26 February 1955 Recommissioned: 10 May 1986 Decommissioned: 31 March 1992 Stricken: 12 January 1995 Status: Museum ship in Pearl Harbor Hawaii Class and type: Iowa-class battleship Displacement: Standard: 48,110 long tons (48,880 t) Full load: 57,540 long tons (58,460 t) Length: 887 feet 3 inches (270.4 m) loa Beam: 108 ft 2 in (33 m) Draft: 36 ft 2.25 in (11 m) Installed power: 8 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers 212,000 shaft horsepower (158,000 kW) Propulsion: 4 x steam turbines 4 x screw propellers Speed: 32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h) Range: 15,000 nmi (28,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) Complement: 117 officers 1,804 enlisted men Armament: 9 x 16 in (406 mm)/50 cal Mark 7 guns 20 x 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal Mark 12 guns 80 x 40 mm (1.6 in) anti-aircraft guns 49 x 20 mm (0.79 in) anti-aircraft guns Armor: Belt: 12.1 in (310 mm) Barbettes: 11.6 in (290 mm) Turrets: 19.7 in (500 mm) Decks: 6 in (152 mm)