![]() ![]() Tectona grandis (teak) is a tropical hardwood in the Lamiaceae family of trees. So what do these gorgeous battleships have for decking material? The days of masted sailing ships has returned? Not exactly but nice try. USS Missouri Teak Deckīattleships sporting teak decks. Close enough to have a mouse scrape the paint off the sides when this dreadnought punched its way through this waterway. ![]() ![]() The Mighty Mo has a width of 108.2 feet and as facts would have it could narrowly slip through the Panama Canal with a width of 100 feet. With the needs of the US Navy changing US Navy submarines and aircraft carriers became the priority while battleships were no longer needed. The Mighty Mo, the Big Stick USS Iowa, the Big Wisky USS Wisconsin and the Black Dragon or also called Big J with the nickname going to the USS New Jersey were completed in time for the Cold War. A total of 6 Iowa-class battleships had been ordered to the tune of 100 million dollars warship per by the United States Navy in 1939 with all but 2 completed during the escalation of World War Two. ![]() The last of the Iowa-class battleships she set to sea on January 29, 1944. Mighty By Design: Four facts about the USS Missouri Last But Not Least So after that heavyweight of a gun fires that 16 inch shell it arrives on target in about 47.10 seconds. Take a Volkswagon bug, jam it down the barrel of a gun and fire it a distance of 126,720 feet downrange. The USS Missouri had nine of them and could hurl a projectile weighing in at 2700lbs at a speed of 2690 feet per second a distance of 24 miles. That means the size of these behemoths were 406mm in size. The Iowa class battleship USS Missouri sported 9 16 inch guns. USS Missouri Gun Load Biggest Guns I Have Ever Seen! Her 16 inch guns fired into the islands of the Empire of Japan and later during Operation Desert Storm. Her motto “Strength for Freedom” was a resounding call heard across the Pacific where she earned in total 11 battle stars beginning in WW2 at battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, advancing later into the Korean War where she fought valiantly from 1950 to 1953. She is the USS Missouri BB-63 and she is called Mighty Mo. She was born in a war and survived number of major US Military naval engagements where she arrived in Tokyo Harbor ending World War Two. ![]()
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