Posted on Jan 17, 2024
Navy Battleship USS Texas Is Making the Ultimate Comeback
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This is the world's only surviving Dreadnought style Battleship.
I got to visit the USS Texas While working for Fifth army/Army North in the spring of 2018.
I was working out of Fort Sam Houston. 1 weekend I drove all the way down to see the Battleship.
I went down there in a 2018 white Dodge Challenger that looked very similar to the 1970 challenger from the movie Vanishing Point. ( I paid extra Over what was allowed by the u s army on orders)It didn't have a Hemi V8 engine but it didn't have a V6 that could get over 30 miles per gallon. I own a similar 2015 Dodge Challenger SXT Plus Which also has a V6 and gets 30 miles per gallon on the highway. I only drive it in the summertime in Canada.
The Battleship was in sad shape.
It had some hydraulic support to keep the ship from listing too much.
The bridge is way smaller than the Iowa class bridges. It was strange to see the 14 inch Gun turret in the middle of the ship. It was strange to see the 5 inch Guns below deck.
I will add some photos in the next couple days
I have visited the following Battleship Museums:
USS North Carolina 2006
USS Missouri 2011
USS Texas 2018
USS Iowa 2019.
I got to visit the USS Texas While working for Fifth army/Army North in the spring of 2018.
I was working out of Fort Sam Houston. 1 weekend I drove all the way down to see the Battleship.
I went down there in a 2018 white Dodge Challenger that looked very similar to the 1970 challenger from the movie Vanishing Point. ( I paid extra Over what was allowed by the u s army on orders)It didn't have a Hemi V8 engine but it didn't have a V6 that could get over 30 miles per gallon. I own a similar 2015 Dodge Challenger SXT Plus Which also has a V6 and gets 30 miles per gallon on the highway. I only drive it in the summertime in Canada.
The Battleship was in sad shape.
It had some hydraulic support to keep the ship from listing too much.
The bridge is way smaller than the Iowa class bridges. It was strange to see the 14 inch Gun turret in the middle of the ship. It was strange to see the 5 inch Guns below deck.
I will add some photos in the next couple days
I have visited the following Battleship Museums:
USS North Carolina 2006
USS Missouri 2011
USS Texas 2018
USS Iowa 2019.
Navy Battleship USS Texas Is Making the Ultimate Comeback
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Guess the USS Texas is the only one going back to WWI. The USS Massachusetts newer was from the 1930s and first served in wartime during WWII. It is also a museum at Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. The are also PT boats, The Destroyer UUS Joseph P. Kenned, a submarine the UUS Sealion and even a former Soviet Union guided missile frigate on display there. ALL the ships there can be boarded and visited. I have visited there many time and even spent a night aboard the USS Massachusetts while escorting a group of Boy Scout as a Scout leader. We were fed meals dinner and breakfast and went to bed at 2200 with taps playing and woke by Reveille in the morning. e were shown films from former crewmembers and had lectures about the battleship nd had the run of the ship to explore everywhere. All that was after the public left for the regular visiting hours that run seven days a week.
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Just before I deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, My wife and two year old daughter went to p
Patriot's point South Carolina to see the USS Yorktown. This ship replaced the one that was sunk at Midway. Patriots Point also has 'the destroyer that wouldn't die'. It was hit by 2 or 3 Japanese kamikaze's suicide planes. It was closed when we went by it. But at least I got to see it.
https://www.patriotspoint.org/explore/uss-laffey/#:~:text=The%20Ship%20That%20Would%20Not,Guadalcanal%20(13%20November%201942).
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Eugene Chu
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col Charlie Brown Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CPT Jack Durish LTC Stephen F. CSM Charles Hayden 1SG Russell Scott 1SG Patrick Burke SFC Dr. Jesus Garcia-Arce, Psy.D SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC John Davis LTC Trent Klug CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD Col (Join to see) 1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel CPT (Join to see)
Patriot's point South Carolina to see the USS Yorktown. This ship replaced the one that was sunk at Midway. Patriots Point also has 'the destroyer that wouldn't die'. It was hit by 2 or 3 Japanese kamikaze's suicide planes. It was closed when we went by it. But at least I got to see it.
https://www.patriotspoint.org/explore/uss-laffey/#:~:text=The%20Ship%20That%20Would%20Not,Guadalcanal%20(13%20November%201942).
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel LTC Eugene Chu
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col Charlie Brown Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CPT Jack Durish LTC Stephen F. CSM Charles Hayden 1SG Russell Scott 1SG Patrick Burke SFC Dr. Jesus Garcia-Arce, Psy.D SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC John Davis LTC Trent Klug CDR Andrew McMenamin, PhD Col (Join to see) 1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel CPT (Join to see)
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I hope she continues to make the comeback complete. Lest she ends up like the USS Oregon BB-3. only her mast, wheel, and smoke stacks are left.
Her mast is on display at Watrfront Park in Portland. Her wheel is at the Oregon Historical Society and the stacks are rusting in an industrial park.
Her mast is on display at Watrfront Park in Portland. Her wheel is at the Oregon Historical Society and the stacks are rusting in an industrial park.
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She had an interesting history even serving as a barge for the invasion of Guam. She is a pre dreadnought battleship, but still looks very similar with 13 inch guns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oregon_(BB-3)
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC Trent Klug SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oregon_(BB-3)
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC Trent Klug SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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Glad they were able to keep this ship from the scrap pile. Lots of history preserved in these ship memorials.
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