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Date Posted:10/14/09 18:01:08
Plastic sheeting covers the superstructure of the USS Missouri while the battleship is being painted.
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Tugboats maneuver Missouri into dry dock
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 15:25:12 EDT
HONOLULU — Four tugboats have gently maneuvered the iconic battleship USS Missouri into a dry dock, where it will undergo a major refurbishment. Later Wednesday, the dock’s gates will close and water will be pumped out, eventually leaving the 54,889-ton vessel sitting on 310 wooden blocks that weigh four tons each.
The two-mile move from its Ford Island pier began earlier Wednesday when a heavy rope was cast off from the ship’s bow and its mooring. With a short horn blast, a tug began pushing the 887-foot-long Missouri backward and away from its pier for the first time in more than 11 years. The Missouri is the last battleship built by the United States. It also was the site of Japan’s surrender in World War II, on Sept. 2, 1945.
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