Talk:USS Missouri (BB-11)

Second or Third?
The article states, in the opening paragraph, that this ship "was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the 24th state." On the page for the USS Missouri (BB-63) it says that THAT ship was the third. Looking at this page: USS Missouri, it looks as if this ship should be the second, and that the other page is right. Does anyone have proof either way? 121.72.241.213 07:52, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Whose husband?
"sponsored by Mrs. Edson Fessenden Gallaudet, daughter of United States Senator Francis Marion Cockrell of Missouri, whose husband and commissioned on 1 December 1903, Captain William S. Cowles in command." - it is not making sense. Francis Marion Cockrell is a male, whose daughter christened/launched the USS Missouri (BB-12). Was it her husband Edson or was it her father Sen. Cockrell commissioned the ship? Samuelsenwd (talk) 06:31, 9 June 2013 (UTC)