88 The second USS Mississippi was an undersized battleship commissioned in 1908. It served briefly as a base for sea planes before being sold to Greece in 1914 and renamed the Kilkis.
It was sunk by a German dive bomber in 1941 while being used as a floating gun battery. The ship's figurehead is displayed in Jackson at the grounds of the state Capitol.
** The third USS Mississippi was a battleship commissioned in 1917 and saw action in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.. It served for ten more years after the war as an auxiliary ship.
It was decommissioned in 1956 and scrapped. It's bell is at the Rosalie Mansion in Natchez.
** The 4th USS Mississippi was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1978. It fired missiles at Iraq in the First Gulf War and was decommissioned in 1997.
Its main mast is displayed at the Mississippi Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Ocean Springs.
--Cooter
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