The State - News from Feb. 5, 1988

Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye said he has it on good authority that the battleship Missouri will be home-ported in Pearl Harbor instead of the Navy’s first choice, San Francisco. Inouye told the Honolulu Advertiser that he had heard from “very reliable sources” of the decision to base the battleship in Hawaii. A spokesman for the Navy in Washington and at Pacific Fleet headquarters in Honolulu said they had heard nothing about the assignment of the renovated battleship to Pearl Harbor. The decision to move the Missouri and possibly a few escort ships to Hawaii could be in reaction to opposition from San Francisco residents and Mayor Art Agnos, who, in remarks made on Maui in December, said, “I don’t know where it will end up, but it won’t be in San Francisco.”