I've commented about this before both here and on YouTube, I am 100% biased about the Battleship Massachusetts, because I am a bay stater, a Masshole if you will, but I genuinely think that while there may be bigger, more impressive battleships (though not many), out there, they aren't "better" ships. Big Mammie did all the things battleships are meant to do, completely crushed it in those roles, saw combat in the Atlantic and Pacific, took hits as she dished them out, dodged torpedoes, and yet never lost a soul to enemy action. She rained hell on her foes again and again, first and last 16" shots of the war for America, and still she brought her boys home safe, that makes Massachusetts better in my opinion. The Iowa class ships are beautiful, Texas is old and storied, the North Carolina was a carrier's best friend with the AA she would throw up (making her allies think she caught fire because she was guns blazing) but Big Mammie got her hands dirty in scraps all over the world, from flagship in operation torch duking it out with shore battery's and the disadvantaged but still very dangerous Jean Bart, to the last big guns firing on Kamashi hitting industry on the Japanese Home islands before the end of the war. She earned her rest as a museum, she has stories to tell, I'm glad we've given her a second role in retirement to tell them.