Bremerton and San Francisco file protest over Navy's award of the Mo to Hawaii. U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., joins effort to keep the Mo in Bremerton. U.S. Senate votes 53-46 against keeping the Missouri in Bremerton. Locals denounce Navy's plans for Missouri at public hearing in Bremerton. Mighty Mo is opened to visitors for the last time in Bremerton.
Thousands tour the ship during three winter weekends.
Bremerton's Missouri on the Mainland committee files a federal lawsuit claiming that the Navy doesn't have legal authority to donate a battleship to a non-federal agency. USS Missouri is scheduled to be towed from Bremerton for the last time, headed for a new role as a tourist attraction in Pearl Harbor. 1998 - An online publication of The Sun newspaper of Bremerton, Wash., a Scripps Howard newspaper.