Overnight Encampment

Just like real Sailors, youth groups can sample "life at sea" with an overnight encampment experience aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial. Campers sleep in the crew berthing areas, store their gear in the lockers, and eat Navy-style meals on the ship’s mess deck. In addition, students participate in onboard activities that require communication and teamwork in a historical, hands-on environment.

Advanced reservations are required for our education rates and programs.

By becoming a member your group will save money, and enjoy member benefits that include unlimited free admission, Victory Store and online store discounts, invitations to member events and exhibit openings.

Financial assistance is available.

To learn more about the Battleship Missouri education programs or educator resources, please contact our Education Director at (808) 455-1600 ext. 240, or email the Education Department.

Level	Group Size	Days	Length	Cost
Grade 5-12	Min 25 to Max 112 (1 Chaperone per 10 Students)	7 Days a week	4pm-9am (16 Hours)	$65 per person Member $75 per person Non-Member

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Digital Media Program

Imparting historical information about the USS Missouri (BB-63) to the students is the primary objective of the USS Missouri Digital Media Program. By training on digital media technology, students are encouraged to acquire knowledge, communicate opinions, and develop technology skills to ultimately create a video keepsake. Students will use both historical facts as well as the their personalized footage captured while aboard the ship. Outcomes aim to show knowledge retention, encourage post experience sharing, and inspire remembrance of the Battleship Missouri Memorial and purpose.

Advanced reservations are required for our education rates and programs.

Financial assistance is available.

To learn more about the Battleship Missouri education programs or educator resources, please contact our Education Director at (808) 455-1600 ext. 240, Education Assistant at ext. 253, or email the Education Department.

	Level	Group Size	Days	Length	Cost
1 Night	Grade 7-12	Max 30 (1 Chaperone per 10 Students)	Wednesday	9am-9am (24 hours)	$65 per Member $75 per Non-Member
2 Night	Grade 7-12	Max 30 (1 Chaperone per 10 Students)	Friday and Saturday	9am-9am (48 hours)	$130 per Adult Member $150 per Adult Non-Member

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The USS Missouri is 108 feet 2 inches wide and built to traverse the Panama Canal which is 110 feet wide.
Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of the then junior Senator Harry S. Truman, christened the USS Missouri on January 29, 1944.
From its keel to the top of her mast, the USS Missouri is as tall as a 20-story building (209 feet 3 inches tall).
Theoretical top speed for the USS Missouri is 33 knots or almost 40 miles per hour.
The USS Missouri has never had a combat death aboard her decks.
When the family of President Harry S. Truman was on board, they made it a practice to eat at least one meal a day with the crew in the Crew’s Mess.
The USS Missouri has three gun turrets with three guns each. The 16-inch guns were the largest ever installed on a Navy ship.
The USS Missouri’s big guns are aimed based upon the commands of an analog computer first designed in the 1920s.
Each gun weighs 230,000 pounds, or about as much as a space shuttle.
Two guns together weigh about as much as a fully loaded Boeing 747.
Each Navy battleship carried a detachment of Marines on board who were the ran the brig or jail.
During World War II, the USS Missouri launched spotter seaplanes from two catapults on the stern of the ship.
The USS Arizona and the USS Missouri are known as the “bookends” of America’s involvement in World War II.
The USS Missouri now hosts several military ceremonies, including re-enlistments, retirements and change of command.
The USS Missouri was truly the end of an era. She was the very last battleship of any nation to be decommissioned.
Each turret of the USS Missouri was manned by 77 to 110 men working in the turret and on five decks below the turret.
The USS Missouri crew earned three battle stars in World War II and five battle stars in the Korean War.
Although it looks like one, the USS Missouri is no longer a Navy ship. It is owned by the USS Missouri Memorial Association.
The USS Missouri's four engine rooms can generate 212,000 horsepower moving forward and 44,000 going astern.
Three former American Presidents have boarded the Battleship Missouri: Harry S. Truman, George H. W. Bush Sr. and George W. Bush, Jr.
The total number of meals served during both active commissioning periods is approximately 40,615,000 meals.