Photo # 80-G-47015 USS Missouri firing a six-gun salvo, August 1944

Here is a pic I thought kinda neat: the 16" guns firing. The camera caught the rounds in flight. Notice how the muzzle flash boils the surface water for an instant. I guess it is boiling the water, it shows in all the photos of the 16-inchers, day or night.
And the total weight of the turrets that mount the guns? All this machinery that supports all this weight, fuel, munitions and stores for 750 men, she still makes 30 knots... And it was all drawn on paper by hand!!
Amazing.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the freshwater crapper thing...
The brig crapper used to be seawater like the others, but the jailbirds would drink the seawater to make themselves sick, thus spending their time up in sickbay rather than the brig. (sickbay was far better than the brig). So the navy wised up to this and installed the ONLY freshwater crapper on the whole boat; now the guys in the brig can drink as much water as they want!!

Here is a link to a site with a lot of pics.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/63f.htm

Everybody, at some time, has run into skinny water. Check this out:

Photo# NH96789 USS Missouri's stern, while aground, Jan. 1950

So, just how DO you get a battleship off the shoals?
What happened to the skipper?
Here is a pic of 1 of 4 unsuccessful attemps to get Missouri off the shoals.

Photo# NH96788 USS Missouri aground, Jan. 1950