by [email protected] | Dec 5, 2009 | Military
The Navy christens the latest USS Missouri this morning, the fourth or fifth navy ship to carry the name of our state (the number depends whether you want to consider a leaky Confederate ironclad named for our state as a U.S Navy ship. The Navy did have it briefly...
by [email protected] | Dec 3, 2009 | Military
The crash of a bottle of a 2001 vintage Missouri champagne against the steel hull of a new submarine tomorrow morning will officially attach the name of our state to a new Navy warship. The newest USS Missouri will be a Virginia class submarine now under construction...
by admin | Sep 3, 2009 | News
The observance of the 64th anniversary of the end of World War Two has taken place on the deck of the USS Missouri. Now it’s time for the ship to disappear from public view for about three months. It will be the first major maintenance on our state battleship in...
by admin | Jul 5, 2009 | News
Our battleship is headed for drydock. She fought in World War Two….in Korea…and in the first Gulf War. Now the USS Missouri battles rust and corrosion, moored in Pearl Harbor as part of the Arizona Memorial. The last time the Missouri was in dry dock was...
by admin | Jun 22, 2009 | Military
Questions about the construction of the new class of submarines have arisen even as the USS Missouri is being built. The USS Missouri is among the elite, state-of-the-art Virginia class attack submarines, with enhanced stealth capabilities and highly accurate, lethal...
