USS Missouri (BB-11) lying at anchor in 1912
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Missouri |
Namesake | Missouri |
Ordered | 4 May 1898 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 7 February 1900 |
Launched | 28 December 1901 |
Commissioned | 1 December 1903 |
Decommissioned | 8 September 1919 |
Stricken | 1 July 1921 |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Maine-class battleship |
Displacement | |
Length | 393 ft 10 in (120.04 m) |
Beam | 72 ft 3 in (22.02 m) |
Draft | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Complement | 561 officers and enlisted |
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USS Missouri (BB-11), a Maine-class battleship, was the second ship of her class and of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 24th state. Missouri was laid down in February 1900 at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, was launched in December 1901, and was commissioned into the fleet in December 1903. She was armed with a main battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) guns and could steam at a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph).
Missouri spent her entire career in the Atlantic with the North Atlantic Fleet, later renamed the Atlantic Fleet. In late 1907, she and the rest of the Atlantic Fleet circumnavigated the globe as the so-called Great White Fleet, which ended in February 1909. The ship was decommissioned in 1910, with periodic reactivations for summer training cruises over the followed six years. After America entered World War I in April 1917, Missouri was brought back into service to train personnel for the expanding wartime Navy. She served briefly as a troopship in 1919, carrying American soldiers back from France, before being decommissioned in September that year. Ultimately, she was sold for scrapping in January 1922.