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1944 Iowa-class battleship
The USS Missouri (BB‑63) is a museum ship at Pearl Harbor and , and multiple recent reports conclude recommissioning in an emergency is highly impractical given technical, personnel, legal, and cost b...
Technically, yes: at least two Iowa‑class hulls are still listed in reserve and could be reactivated, because the class has been recommissioned before and museum ships are maintained in relatively goo...
The USS Missouri (BB-63) is preserved as a museum ship at Pearl Harbor and has undergone major restoration and ongoing preservation work to maintain structural integrity and public access. , supported...
The materials provided do not state a single, explicit for the USS Missouri as a museum ship; instead they offer that together outline the scale of preservation spending. Financial statements show tot...
The USS Missouri’s recent main teak deck restoration cost approximately , completed in April 2024 after a 14-year effort and more than 68,000 man-hours, placing it among the commonly reported for hist...
The dominant, well-documented restoration on the USS Missouri since decommissioning is a multi-stage completed in spring 2024 after a 14-year effort, costing roughly and covering over . Reporting acro...
The available analyses show there is that isolates an annual “current maintenance cost” for the USS Missouri as a museum ship; instead, public documents and reporting list a mix of multi‑million‑dolla...