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Once thought to be unmovable, the Battleship Texas heads to Galveston for repairs
KUT, Austin, Texas ^ | 8/30/2022 | Michael Marks

Posted on 08/31/2022 6:07:17 AM PDT by CodeToad

While in service, the USS Texas sailed through some of the globe’s most treacherous waters.

The Texas is one of only eight ships to serve in both world wars. Its crew supported American troops on D-Day and on Iwo Jima. After being decommissioned, the Texas became a floating museum, docked beside the old San Jacinto Battleground near Houston.

On Wednesday, the Texas will once again set out into open waters when a group of tugboats tows it to a dry dock in Galveston, where the ship will undergo extensive repairs on its hull as part of a long-term plan to preserve the vessel. The journey will be live-streamed starting about 3 a.m.

Bruce Bramlett, chief operating officer for the Battleship Texas Foundation, spoke to Texas Standard about moving the Texas and the ship’s future.


(Excerpt) Read more at kut.org ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: battleship; navy; texas; ww2
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Pretty cool that the battleship Texas is being repaired and re-homed when all thought it could never be moved again.
1 posted on 08/31/2022 6:07:17 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

Last remaining dreadnought battleship in the world. When British historians want to research the battle of Jutland they have to go to Texas.


2 posted on 08/31/2022 6:13:06 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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Not sure about that...the USS Alabama is still right here in Mobile Bay...or is it not considered a ‘dreadnaught’?


3 posted on 08/31/2022 6:18:41 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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Move is complete - I think, can’t find solid confirmation.


4 posted on 08/31/2022 6:21:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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Not a dreadnaught:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alabama_(BB-60)


5 posted on 08/31/2022 6:24:49 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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Move is not complete will take most of the day.


6 posted on 08/31/2022 6:24:55 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: notdownwidems
Not sure about that...the USS Alabama is still right here in Mobile Bay...or is it not considered a ‘dreadnaught’?

The Alabama was commissioned in 1942. The term "Dreadnaught" had longsince been dropped, being superseded by the term "Battleship".

7 posted on 08/31/2022 6:25:49 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottomhttps://youtu.be/ycrqXJYf1SU-line")
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Great. Is the HSC open again?


8 posted on 08/31/2022 6:25:51 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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Found a good stream:

https://youtu.be/Xe74Ib49f0Q

Temporary brain fart, sorry.


9 posted on 08/31/2022 6:29:16 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: CodeToad

Rather odd to see from the San Jacinto monument - the upper sections appearing to float above the Texas scrub - more so when a large ship passes by in the channel.


10 posted on 08/31/2022 6:31:28 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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From Wikipedia (for what it’s worth): “USS Texas, the only dreadnought still in existence, was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship”


11 posted on 08/31/2022 6:31:37 AM PDT by Stosh
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We visited the Texas and I was surprised.

Texas is a battleship but seemed surprisingly small.


12 posted on 08/31/2022 6:32:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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It’s not the first time it’s been moved.
I think 10 or so years ago they unmoored it and took it to corpus to have the hull worked on.


13 posted on 08/31/2022 6:32:15 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: mad_as_he$$

Very cool. Thanks!


14 posted on 08/31/2022 6:36:30 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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...all thought it could never be moved again.

When I reported for duty aboard the USS Vulcan (AR-5) at NOB NORVA in the fall of 1961 I was told that she was welded to the pier and mired in her own coffee grounds. Six weeks later we were underway.

15 posted on 08/31/2022 6:39:46 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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A ping out to the Texas Ping list, founded by Windflier.

Pretty cool that the battleship Texas is being repaired and re-homed when all thought it could never be moved again.

Moving the good battleship Texas for repairs. Lots of info on this thread, and a link to a camera.

Another special Texas August edition for your perusal.

As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the Texas Ping list.

Blessings, and stay cool!

16 posted on 08/31/2022 6:48:50 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Ship tracking shows it to now be down by La Porte.

Good info here
https://battleshiptexas.org/departure/

They may live stream again later today.

View of her moving with the sun just coming up behind her earlier this morning was awesome, once in a lifetime scene.


17 posted on 08/31/2022 6:54:26 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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Here is a link to the departure schedule for the Battleship Texas.

Battleship Texas is underway!

The camera referenced in the previous post is a cam on the battleship as it travels. (Sorry to disappoint some weirdos out there)

And you can follow the tugs on MarineTraffic.com.

18 posted on 08/31/2022 6:54:52 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Bruce Bramlett: Yeah, we are. You know, part of the reason is that the Houston Ship Channel is closing down for us tomorrow. And so we’re going to have a clear shot all the way to Galveston. But they would like for us to be out of the channel while it’s still daylight. So consequently, we will begin to move the ship between 5:30 and 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. Once underway, we expect she will arrive in Galveston along about 3 or 4 tomorrow afternoon.

The Houston Ship Channel is closing?!

That doesn't happen very often.

19 posted on 08/31/2022 6:58:51 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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More from the Texas Standard interview:

Well, you know, it’s funny. I’ve been here 11 years, and for the first nine, everybody said, “you can’t move her, you can’t move her, you can’t move her.” And I would agree she’s not movable unless you planned it and did the proper preparations. And then if you look, you know, I think most people would slow down and go, wait a minute, this whole thing’s insured. So the insurers wouldn’t want any part of it if they weren’t convinced we could safely move it.

The towing companies, the marine surveyors, the engineers, the Coast Guard, the Houston pilots, the Galveston pilots, everybody’s all in on this. And they’re not in on it because it’s going to sink. They’re in on it because we’ve simulated it twice, and we all know and everybody’s impressed. They say “we never see anybody go to this extent.” This is going to work. It’s going to work fine.

And then obviously, the other one that always tickles me, the people go, “Hey, you’re going to sink her.” I’m like, you know they ripped the side off the Titanic and it still took it 2 hours and 45 minutes to sink. The ship is not going to be there and then be gone. If anything catastrophic happened, we’ve predetermined spots down the channel where we simply would ground her, put the divers in the water, figure out what’s going on. We’ll pump the water out and we’ll get up and get going.

Good info from the head of the org.

20 posted on 08/31/2022 7:01:10 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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