[tanknetter]

... Balls out Iowa at speed well above stated in the manual ... during high power maneuvers in shallow waters of Chesapeake Bay, VA, 19 Nov 1985

W ... T ... F????

By 1985 had the USN completely forgotten Thimble Shoals???

[Bull Snipe]

The officer in charge of getting Missouri off of Thimble Shoals was Rear Adm. Homer Wallin. In 1942, Captain Wallin was assigned the duty to salvage the sunken battleships in Pearl Harbor. He raised the California, West Virginia, and uprighted the capsized Oklahoma, among other accomplishments at Pearl.

[sternup]

fishing grounds near Thimble Shoals Light... to this day, known by locals as “Missouri Flats”