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2. USS Texas (BB-35) - Wikipedia

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   Designated NHL. 8 December 1976 [3] USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York -class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. [4][5] Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North ...

3. SS Selma (1919) - Wikipedia

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   SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel. She lies approximately one mile north of Galveston Island.

4. Point-class cutter - Wikipedia

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   The Point-class cutter was a class of 82-foot patrol vessels designed to replace the United States Coast Guard 's aging 83-foot wooden hull patrol boat being used at the time. The design utilized a mild steel hull and an aluminum superstructure. The Coast Guard Yard discontinued building the 95-foot Cape -class cutter to have the capacity to ...

5. Elissa (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Elissa (ship) Elissa. (ship) 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) . The tall ship Elissa is a three- masted barque. She is based in Galveston, Texas, and is one of the oldest ships sailing today. Launched in 1877, she is now a museum ship at the Galveston Historic Seaport. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.

6. La Belle (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Beam. 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) Draft. 8 ft (2.4 m) La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle's four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to failure.

7. List of U.S. National Historic Landmark ships, shipwrecks ...

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   USS Texas: Texas 8 December 1976: 113: Ticonderoga (side-paddle-wheel lakeboat) Vermont 29 January 1964: at the Shelburne Museum: 114: USS Torsk: Maryland 14 January 1986: at the Baltimore Maritime Museum: 115: German submarine U-505: Illinois 29 June 1989: Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago: 116: Victory Chimes: Maine 25 September 1997: 117