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The USS Missouri grounding occurred 17 January 1950 when the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) ran aground while sailing out of Chesapeake Bay. No one was injured, but the battleship remained stuck for over two weeks before being freed from the sand. The ship was so damaged that she had to return to port and enter dry dock for repairs.
Missouri was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of Missouri. [16] The ship was authorized by Congress in 1938 [17] and ordered on 12 June 1940 with the hull number BB-63. [18] The keel for Missouri was laid down at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 6 January 1941 in slipway 1.
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The ship made it to a floating drydock at Surabaya but was abandoned by her crew and left behind after the ship fell over off its keel blocks into 12 feet of water. Surabaya would fall to the Japanese, who would raise the Stewart and commission the ship into the IJN. The ship would survive the war to be returned to the US Navy, and later sunk ...
These ships of the Allied navies of World War II were present in Tokyo Bay on Victory over Japan Day (2 September 1945) when the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63).
The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), where the ceremonies took place, is at left. The light cruiser USS Detroit (CL-8) is in the right distance. Aircraft include Grumman TBM Avenger , Grumman F6F Hellcat , Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and Vought F4U Corsair types.
Five days later Missouri received fifteen more rounds of 75-millimeter to 155-millimeter cannon fire while bombarding the city. The American ship escaped damage again, the nearest shot landing 500 yards (460 m) off her location. USS Merganser was also engaged with the nearest shot splashing harmlessly 200 yards (180 m) from her. [1] [2]
VF-113 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). The pilot was James Victor Rowney, the operations and maintenance officer of CVG-11. The battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) is visible below the Corsair. Note: The Naval History and Heritage Command gives the date as 2 October 1950.