USS Iowa (BB 61) - San Francisco, California (Planned)

USS New Jersey (BB 62)- Camden, New Jersey

USS Missouri (BB 63 ) - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

USS Wisconsin (BB 64) - Norfolk, Virginia

USS Massachusetts (BB 59) - Fall River, Massachusetts

USS North Carolina (BB 55) - Wilmington, North Carolina

USS Alabama (BB 60) - Mobile, Alabama

USS Texas (BB 35) - La Porte, Texas

The web address of the Uss North Carolina Battleship Commissio is: www.battleshipnc.com

There are eight US battleships that saw action in WWII preserved as museum ships, one dreadnought and seven of the ten "fast battleships" which were the last ones the US ever completed.

USS Texas (BB 35) completed 1914 and also served in WWI. Since 1948 a memorial at San Jacinto State Park near Houston, Texas.

USS North Carolina (BB 55) the first of the fast battleships, preserved since the early 1960s at Wilmington, NC.

USS Massachusetts (BB 59) a South Dakota Class fast battleship, at Fall River Massachusetts.

USS Alabama (BB 60) another South Dakota Class ship at Mobile, Alabama.

USS Iowa (BB 61) the first of the four Iowa Class ships, the largest ever built by the US, preserved since July 2012 at Long Beach, near Los Angeles, California.

USS New Jersey (BB 62) preserved since 2001 at Camden, New Jersey. Also saw action in Vietnam.

USS Missouri (BB 63) since 1998 at Pearl Harbor, moored on "Battleship Row" where the US battleships were tied up when attacked December 7, 1941, next to the USS Arizona Memorial.

USS Wisconsin (BB 64) since 2010 at Norfolk, Virginia as a memorial.

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USS North Carolina.