USS Texas disconnected as of 06:30 am CDT. Expected in Galveston ~4 pm CDT.
Last remaining dreadnought battleship in the world. When British historians want to research the battle of Jutland they have to go to Texas.
Move is complete - I think, can’t find solid confirmation.
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.
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!
As a kid I loved visiting San Jacinto and touring the Texas.
I will miss the tradition of it being at San Jacinto and how it tied the continuation of Texas history together but I assume they are moving it to a better place, perhaps Galveston.
God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong.... 🎵
USS Texas disconnected as of 06:30 am CDT. Expected in Galveston ~4 pm CDT.
The Ayes of Texas...
History Guy just did a neat presentation on the Texas and how the crew ballasted the ship down on one side to increase the elevation of the main battery to hit targets further inland on D-day. Now that is determination.
I would not have been surprised if they hadn’t driven her shoreward and ballasted her down to the bottom to get the battery more accurate.
Baytown or Beaumont would be terrible locations to move her. San Jacinto has been one of those slightly out of the way places down in the refinery country. I have not been there in quite some time but it did always seem out of the way. To say it has nothing to do with the San Jacinto Monument does not seem right to me. Both are symbols of Texas’ defiance. Going to Galveston may be OK but I don’t see any connection there either for that matter.
Is this going to be another patch job that does not last as they did the last time they went to so much effort to save her? Raising her out of the water seems the only real way to save her for very long.
The City of Baytown is trying to get the battleship docked there close to the north end of the Hartmann bridge.
If you want to visit a great US Navy ship turned museum, go to San Diego and tour the USS Midway Museum aircraft carrier. You will need at least a full day. It is awesome. It’s the #1 tourist attraction in California.
I’ve been to visit the the USS Texas. Not nearly as impressive.
My late uncle was a D-Day vet, first wave at Omaha beach. In the 1970’s I was reading a book on the history of the US Navy in WWII. He was visiting and sitting next to me on the couch and a picture of the Texas at D-Day was in the book and he glanced over and said what are you reading and then said I know that ship. He said that is the Texas, she was at D-Day, I went by her in a landing craft and she was close at one point dueling with German shore batteries. Pretty cool looking back on that discussion.
If I got the Lotto at 300 million, could I fix up the Texas enough to fire it up and go where I want?
And maybe some fellow ‘sailors’ would want to fix up the armament.
The Texas should be way more impressive than Bezos Yacht.
That she’s being moved at all is pretty darn impressive. The people doing it obviously know what they’re doing. A ping for later.
“all thought it could never be moved again.”
They put her in place near the San Jac monument then pumped tons of sand under her to secure her and semi-flooded tanks onboard. To move her then all they have to do is to pump out the sand and empty the tanks so that she would float again.