A very good look at the Texas in dry dock. In amazing shape to start the rebuilding journey.
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A recent video update on the Battleship Texas, showing the plating below the waterline. This YT video is not too long.
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Blessings, and stay cool!
That looks way better than I thought it would. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Really good stuff. I appreciate your post.
Nice.
Oy, vat a big boat dat is!
Later. Thanks.
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.
If anyone who lives near Houston wants to go see it, the ship is right across the Galveston channel from Pier 21. I went down there yesterday and you can see it clearly. It is in drydock on Pelican Island.