On Dec 24, 11:35*pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in ...

They, the battleships, have been taken out of mothballs several times.
Each time they were retrofitted with new Radar and arms. *Cruse missiles
are common as are unique then - but not now - the massive high rate guns
used on planes, missiles and boats.
Remember, they are not getting Gray Ghosts out of mothballs they are
getting
the most feared ship on the water. *And they are not 50 or 60 years old.
Re-built for Viet Nam and used since. *I'm glad the New Jersey is in Pearl
Harbor. - It is a most important ship to history.

Martin

Uh, she's in Camden, New Jersey, where she's been since 1999 as a floating
museum.

http://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/

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Ed Huntress

It's the Battleship Missouri at Pearl.
Karl