| Experimental Gunnery Ship Mississippi |
| AG-128, the former battleship BB-41, made giant contributions in gunnery and ordnance defelopments. She launched the Navy into the age of the guided missile war ships. Her Terrier missile installation was completed in the Norfolk Yard by 9 August 1952, followed by successful firing in the cape Cod area, off Georges Bank, 28-29 January 1953. Her newly developed Terrier missile systems made their first appearance in the active fleet in Boston (CAG-2) when recommissionde as a guided millile cruiser 15 June 1956. |
| Photo -- James L. Mooney, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968, Repring 1977), Vol.3: G-K, p. 821 |
