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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

‘Mighty Mo’ To Give Last Northwest Show

Associated Press

The public will get one last chance to tour the USS Missouri in Bremerton before the retired battleship heads to Hawaii.

The ship deck will be open for tours 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the last three weekends in January.

The “Mighty Mo,” which spent nearly 40 of its years at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard here, is to be towed in April to Pearl Harbor, where it will become a nonprofit museum.

After seeing action in the Korean War, the Missouri was decommissioned in 1955 and placed on display at the Bremerton shipyard, drawing an estimated 180,000 visitors a year.