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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 ...
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 ...
The Coast Guard Cutter Manowar passes the Battleship Texas and San Jacinto Monument as it patrols the Houston Ship Channel, August 3, 2016. The Manowar is an 87-foot patrol boat homeported in Galveston, Texas. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin R. Williams; Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D800 ...
The most notorious incident of aircraft pitch-up known as the "Sabre dance" was the loss of brand new North American F-100C-20-NA Super Sabre, 54-1907, flown by Lt. Barty R. Brooks, a native of Martha, Oklahoma, and a Texas A&M graduate, of the 1708th Ferrying Wing, Detachment 12, Kelly AFB, Texas, during an attempted emergency landing at ...
List of shipwrecks: 16 January 2010 Ship State Description Atlantic Mist United States The 185-foot (56.4 m) fishing vessel – a former PCE-842-class patrol craft – was scuttled as an artificial reef in 100 feet (30 m) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean at , approximately 26 nautical miles (48 km; 30 mi) southeast of Indian River Inlet, Delaware, and equidistant from Cape May, New Jersey ...
New photos of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas reveal severe overcrowding in the makeshift shelter as the Biden administration struggles to handle a ...
Texas police said the case was not a homicide, but her case was far from the first for the lake. Over the last 20 months, over 10 bodies have been pulled from the same lake, according to Austin ...
While much of the Houston Ship Channel is associated with heavy industry, an icon of Texas history is also located along its length. The San Jacinto Monument commemorates the Battle of San Jacinto (1836) in which Texas won its independence from Mexico. From 1948 to 2022, also along the channel's path was the museum ship USS Texas (BB-35).