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Texas Navy hosted by The Portal to Texas History. USS Texas Hard Hat Tour Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine: Photos and information from a tour of closed-to-the-public areas of the ship. USS Texas (Battleship Number 35, later BB-35), 1914–1948; NavSource Online: Battleship Photo Archives Photo gallery of USS Texas at NavSource ...
USS Texas (BB-35) is a New York-class dreadnought battleship that was in commission from 1914 to 1948. In 1948, she was decommissioned and immediately became a museum ship near Houston. USS Texas (CGN-39) was in commission from 1977 to 1993. She was the second Virginia-class nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser. USS Texas (SSN-775) was ...
The two sides engaged in an artillery duel when at 13:16 Texas was hit by a 240mm shell that struck the ship's conning tower and support column of the navigation bridge wounding eleven men, one of whom later died. The damage was negligible and Texas continued to fire back at the Germans. At 13:37 she scored a revenge hit with a fourteen-inch ...
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.
But the greatest challenge in recent years for the USS Texas has been a leaky, rusty hull that at times forced workers to pump out about 2,000 gallons (7,570 liters) of water per minute from the ...
In an effort to help families find answers, NBC News is publishing the names of more than 1,800 people whose bodies were given to the Health Science Center by Dallas and Tarrant counties since 2019.
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...
In 2020, the 75th anniversary of the USS Indianapolis sinking filled Briggs with regret over questions he never asked. "He was one of 316 men, out of a crew of 1,195, who lived to tell his story.