Really disappointed in the people that originally laid that ship up. Those interior frame collapses did not have to happen. Brackish water ballast? There was cheap technology in those days to prevent that.
I was chief mate on a ship larger than that which was the first of a show case to the coast guard where we reduced annual dry docking to every other year with a “wet dock” in between. My team inspected every weld in the ballast tanks and the cleaned bunker tanks. Did it in a couple days. I still have my Atta Boy certificate.
The basis for the every other year was based on high tech coatings and inspections, inboard and outboard with divers. That was a working ship where corrosion would have been more problematic than a static ship using older but effective technology.
Those torpedo blisters have been a constant source of problems. They are not original to the ship but were added later, around 1925. That work was most likely done by the lowest bidder, & she’s been through a lot since then. The ship was destined to be used for target practice until the State of Texas rescued her from the mothball fleet.
That would be the Battleship Texas Commission (not to be confused with the modern Battleship Texas Foundation) which was responsible for the ship from 1947-1983. The Commission is responsible for most of the problems that the Texas is currently experiencing, due to many, many acts of incompetence and stupidity. Including the idiot replacement of the original decking with cheap concrete. The Commission was completely (and horrifyingly) incompetent and insufficient to the task laid before it.
It probably would not be surprising to anyone here that the Commission was a sinecure post for friends of the Democrat governors of Texas at the time...
The Texas may look good on the outside, but she’s rotten on the inside from the brackish ballasting she was subjected to. I don’t know how they can expect to fix the frame damage...a condition they inflicted on her thru stupidity.