![]() Over at the Navy Department, Gloria Carvalho, the Navy Ship Donation Program manager, is cheerfully noncommittal, noting that Dalton is expected to make up his mind "sometime this summer." "We're standing by," said Earle Smith, of Bremerton's Save the Missouri Committee. "Don't print speculation," said Christine Peterson, of San Francisco Operation Missouri. ![]() "You people are usually the first to know," said Donald Budai, executive director of the Battleship Missouri Foundation, of Long Beach. Dalton has been agonizing about this for some months, and all of the contenders are starting to freak out. ![]() These were listed in alphabetical order to avoid favoritism. The competitors are Bremerton, Honolulu, Long Beach, Calif., and San Francisco. Dalton will decide which of four cities will be allowed to turn the Missouri into a nonprofit museum. ![]() 2, 1945, has fought in three wars, and, perhaps more than any other vessel afloat today, symbolizes the might of American seapower.Īfter its last gig firing Tomahawk missiles at Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the Missouri was decommissioned, fixed up with a "cathodic protective system" to shield it from rust and mildew, and mothballed in Bremerton, Wash. Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender on Sept. The USS Missouri (BB-63), however, is hardly a stray dog. Whoever wins the prize must have plenty of water (at least 38 feet deep), several million dollars for towing, modifications, security and upkeep, and a fawning public willing to visit at $5 to $10 a pop. Like all good guardians, however, it needs to find a caring home, and the requirements are steep. The Navy has an 887-foot, 45,000-ton, steel artifact, and it wants to give it away. ![]()
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