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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96788

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Tugs pushing from alongside, during one of four unsuccessful attempts to free the battleship after she ran aground on 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