Naval Vessels
Four US Navy vessels have been named after the state.
- USS Missouri (1841), a sidewheel frigate launched in 1841 and destroyed by fire in 1843
- USS Missouri (BB-11), a Maine-class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922
- USS Missouri (BB-63), an Iowa-class battleship in service from 1944 to 1998; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II; decommissioned in 1998; now a floating war memorial at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii
- USS Missouri (SSN-780), a Virginia-class submarine joined the fleet after a commissioning ceremony July 31, 2010 at the Naval Submarine Base New London.
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Famous quotes containing the words naval and/or vessels:
“It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)