[Bloody Sam Roberts]

USS Texas BB35

Nice photo!

My family and I just spent this past weekend aboard BB59 USS Massachusetts. Man those Tin Cans are huge!

Quite an experience.

[ArrogantBustard]

Thanks. The builders, officers and men of USS Texas SSN 775 have a proud tradition to build on. Godspeed USS Texas!

[Gumlegs]

Ak! "Tin cans" are destroyers. A modern U.S. destroyer is about 8,000 tons displacement. The Iowa class battleships, the last we ever built, displaced about 57,540 tons. The turrets on the Iowas weigh more than destroyers.