Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Missouri'' in honor of the state of Missouri:
*, a sidewheel frigate launched in 1841 and destroyed by fire in August 1843
*, a ''Maine''-class battleship in service from 1900 to 1922.
*, an ''Iowa''-class battleship in service (variably) from 1944 to 1992; site of the official Japanese surrender of World War II; now a floating war memorial at
Naval Base Pearl Harbor
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, Hawaii
*, a ''Virginia''-class submarine commissioned in 2010
See also
*, a Confederate States Navy river gunboat based primarily on the
Red River during the American Civil War.
*, several merchant ships with this name
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United States Navy ship names
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