U.S.S Missouri question

The Iowas, specifically the Missouri and the Wisconsin are supposed to be kept in a state that allows them to reactivated quickly just in case, so they should already be seaworthy. But to get her moving under her own power...would be about four hours to build up the needed steam pressure for the engines. The rest can be handwaved as running on a skeleton crew, just barely enough to run the ship since the plan was to just sail it into weapons range of the comm-station.

I don't think time is the main issue. Not sure, but Missouri is a museum, why does it have fuel and ammo aboard at all ?

Another scene that doesn't look very realistic was their anchor maneuver. The ship was moving at full speed, shouldn't the chain be torn apart or more likely chain holder just ripped off ? Then again, will the ship's hull survive such trick - moving it sideways like that ?

I was stationed on the USS Shenandoah AD-44 and worked on the Missouri for 6 months in 1984 getting it ready for recommission prior to the first gulf war. We worked mainly on upgrades to the boiler room and ventilation system. When I left the ship was still at least a year away from fleet service.

The upgrades performed then would not be enough to earn a Battle "E" under today's standards so you would basically be on an a ship with obsolete weapons systems and guidance. I am sure it is sea worthy but I wouldn't want to be the captain because I doubt if it is battle ready.

10 minutes if you've got AC/Dc accompanying you

dOn'T tELL hiM pIKe !..............

Well considering that they are only preserved as Museums no longer apart of the mothball fleet. It would take some time to get them going. Also since the odds that there are still munitions in storage that can shoot out of the canons is unlikely since they where stricken, it is unlikely that they would ever be reactivated.

..... Wow! How about going at flank speed while still in Pearl Harbor?! Building up steam from "cold iron" is no quick task. Take the example of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The onlky battleship that was able to get underway during the attack was already "fired up". The battleships at battleship row never moved apart from sinking. Honestly this film is so full of errors and plot holes they'd need a whole web site to cover them all. Put this entire silly movie under the category of requiring a total suspension of belief. Of coarse if you know absolutely nothing of the military and specifically the Navy, then you will not notice. There is also no chance of any live munitions aboard or fuel.
..... Rate this movie as complete fantasy.
Dave, HM1(SW/FMF), USN/ret (that was 21 years boys & girls)

I don't know about a "battleship" but I do know it takes 2 weeks to fire up the "Flying Scotsman" from cold and that is from a fully working train not having been run for a month.

Well, let's just say that these battleships were sold/given to the cities that wanted them, as museums. They had all ammunition removed, all fuel oil, lube oil, feed water, flammables, etc removed as well...

They are museums, not exactly candidates for re-commissioning. That is the first thing. But to make it even more implausible, even if they had the necessary consumables still on board, and the ammunition, it would physically take a minimum of 1 hour to build a sufficient head of steam to even open the main steam stop valves to get the shafts turning, not the 30 seconds it appears to take in the movie, heh heh...

So, the bottom line is that it was just a cutsie movie fantasy to have the Missouri in the movie at all...that's from a retired USN Chief Machinist Mate, who has alot of personal experience as an Engine Room Snipe...