'Mighty Mo' goes through maintenance, preservation work

The Mighty Mo is on the move. The Battleship Missouri left its home early Wednesday morning at Pearl Harbor for the first time in more than a decade.

The Missouri, an 887-foot-long vessel, is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship. It was the last battleship built by the United States, and it's going through extensive maintenance and preservation work. This is an $18 million project to preserve a historic vessel.

The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard will be the "Mighty Mo's" home for the next three months. This is a major financial investment, but its supporters say the Missouri deserves it because it played a key role in a war that changed Hawaii and the rest of the country.

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[skeligandrew]

Nice to see they don't just scrap them at the end of the war, if only that was the same deal for warbirds.