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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96787

USS Missouri (BB-63)


With tugs pushing from alongside and pulling from astern, during one of four unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded battleship after she ran onto Thimble Shoals, Virginia, on 17 January 1950. Missouri was finally freed on 1 February after dredging alongside and astern opened a path for her to return to the shipping channel.

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12 January 1999