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Pennant of the Archer. Archer was built in Baltimore, Maryland at the Schott and Whitney shipyard. Originally called the Galveston, she was rechristened in honor of Branch Tanner Archer, a diplomat of the Republic of Texas. [1] She was the last ship of the Texas Navy to be delivered under a contract with the shipbuilding firm Schott and Whitney.
Pages in category "Ships of the Texas Navy" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Texan brig Archer; Texan sloop-of-war Austin; B. Texan ...
The Texas Group was disestablished on October 1, 1966. The site became a Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (ISMF) with only 197 ships stored on site and most of the work done by civilian contractors. [1] Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility closed on December 28, 1975. It took five years to remove all ships at the yard.
The Texan brig Wharton was a two-masted brig of the Second Texas Navy from 1839 to 1846. She was the sister ship of the Archer.Accompanying the Texas flagship, Austin, she defeated a larger force of Mexican Navy steamships in the Naval Battle of Campeche in May 1843.
Nearly 40 such ships remain sunk in East Texas rivers, one of largest abandonment sites in the U.S. As always, it is best for the public to leave them alone. If you find anything like these sunken ...
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Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...
Pages in category "Naval ships of the Republic of Texas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Texan brig Archer; Texan sloop-of-war ...