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 ...
Last remaining dreadnought battleship in the world. When British historians want to research the battle of Jutland they have to go to Texas.
Not sure about that...the USS Alabama is still right here in Mobile Bay...or is it not considered a ‘dreadnaught’?
Move is complete - I think, can’t find solid confirmation.
Move is not complete will take most of the day.
The Alabama was commissioned in 1942. The term "Dreadnaught" had longsince been dropped, being superseded by the term "Battleship".
Great. Is the HSC open again?
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.
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”
We visited the Texas and I was surprised.
Texas is a battleship but seemed surprisingly small.
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.
Very cool. Thanks!
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.
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.
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Blessings, and stay cool!
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.
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.
The Houston Ship Channel is closing?!
That doesn't happen very often.
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.
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