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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Missouri (BB-63), In Reserve, 1955-1985

This page features views of and on USS Missouri during her thirty years in reserve, from February 1955 until she reentered active service in early 1986.
For all but the last two years of this time, Missouri was moored at Bremerton, Washington, where she became a major attraction for visitors and a shrine to the end of the Second World War. In May 1984, she was towed to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, to be modernized in preparation for recommissioning. Sea trials were held in January 1986 and USS Missouri was recommissioned on 10 May of that year.

For links to further picture coverage on USS Missouri, see the ship's cover page: USS Missouri, Selected Views.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

Photo #: USN 1143677

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Laid up at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Bremerton, Washington, 19 March 1970.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 85KB; 500 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143677.

 

Photo #: NH 96793

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Memorial service honoring the late General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, held on the decommissioned battleship's after deck, at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.

Photograph by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, released for publication by Thirteenth Naval District Public Affairs Office on 10 April 1964.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 

Photo #: USN 1143674

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Shrouded in fog, at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, 19 March 1970.
At that time, approximately 180,000 visitors boarded the ship each year.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 505 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143674.

 

Photo #: USN 1143632

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Exhibit featuring copies of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender and an article, entitled The Sailor and the General, concerning preparations for the surrender ceremonies held on board Missouri on 2 September 1945.
Photographed on board the ship, at the Bremerton, Washington, Reserve Fleet facility, 19 March 1970.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 525 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143632.

 

Photo #: USN 1143671

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Pigeons roosting on one of the ship's anchor chains, at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, where she is laid up in the Reserve Fleet, 19 March 1970.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 495 x 765 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143671.

 

Photo #: USN 1143675

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Spider web on a lifeline, 19 March 1970.
Missouri was then laid up at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 520 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143675.

 

For links to further picture coverage on USS Missouri, see the ship's cover page: USS Missouri, Selected Views.

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23 January 1999