The Missouri

War History Online has an article by Mohammed Moyeez about the Missouri:

The USS Missouri (BB-63), known as Mighty Mo or Big Mo, is a Navy Iowa-class battleship, the third ship of the Navy to be named in honor of the state of Missouri. The Missouri was the last battleship commissioned by the United States, and the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan, ending World War Two:

The Missouri was ordered in 1940 and commissioned in June of 1944. In the Pacific theater of World War Two, she fought in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, shelled the Japanese home islands, and fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.
Decommissioned in 1955 into the United States Navy Reserve fleets (aka the Mothball Fleet), she was reactivated and modernized in 1984 as part of the six-hundred-ship Navy plan, and provided fire support during Operation Desert Storm in January and February of 1991.
The Missouri received a total of eleven battle stars for service in World War Two, Korea, and the Persian Gulf.
The Missouri was central to the plot of the film Under Siege, and the ship was prominently featured in another movie, Battleship. As the Missouri has not moved under her own power since 1992, shots of the ship at sea were obtained with the help of three tugboats.
With the collapse of the then-Soviet Union in the early 1990s and the absence of a perceived threat to the United States came drastic cuts in the defense budget, and the high cost of maintaining and operating battleships as part of the Navy’s active fleet became uneconomical; as a result, the Missouri was decommissioned on 31 March 1992 at Long Beach, California. The Missouri returned to be part of the reserve fleet at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, until 12 January 1995, when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. She remained in Bremerton, but was not open to tourists, as she had been from 1957 to 1984.
In spite of attempts by citizens’ groups to keep her in Bremerton and be re-opened as a tourist site, the Navy wanted to pair a symbol of the end of World War Two with one representing its beginning; she is now anchored in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Rico says his father served aboard her one summer when he was in the Naval Academy...