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Texas was the first U.S. battleship to become a permanent museum ship; she was turned over to the state of Texas on 21 April 1948 as a permanent museum in Houston. [ A 3 ] [ 8 ] In 1976 she became the first battleship to be declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark , [ 10 ] and is the only remaining World War I era dreadnought battleship.
USS Texas (SSN-775) is a Virginia-class submarine, and the fourth warship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of Texas. Texas was commissioned as a US Navy warship in Galveston, Texas, on 9 September 2006. [2] [7]
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Pages in category "Naval ships of the Republic of Texas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Plan view of Texas from the 1900 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. 'A' are the main guns and 'D' shows the locations of the six-inch guns. The delivery of the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo in 1883 and the acquisition of other armored warships by Brazil, Argentina, and Chile shortly afterward alarmed the United States government, as the Brazilian Navy was now the most powerful in the Western ...
The Texas Navy, officially the Navy of the Republic of Texas, also known as the Second Texas Navy, was the naval warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces during the Republic of Texas. [1] It descended from the Texian Navy , which was established in November 1835 to fight for independence from Centralist Republic of Mexico in the Texas ...
The body of a missing employee for Elon Musk’s SpaceX washed up on a Texas beach this week, ending a 24-hour search for the man. Kevin Edward Escobar was last seen on Sunday morning, when he ...
The first of the ships acquired was the former revenue service ship USRC Ingham, a small six-gun ship of 112 tons which was renamed Independence. The Independence became the flagship of the First Texas Navy and was placed under the command of Captain Charles E. Hawkins; she fought a battle with Mexican naval forces on June 14, 1835, off Brazos ...