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USS Texas was a pre-dreadnought battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s. The first American battleship commissioned, [ 1 ] she was built in reaction to the acquisition of modern armored warships by several South American countries, and meant to incorporate the latest developments in naval tactics and design.
Four warships of the U.S. Navy have been named the USS Texas for the State of Texas: USS Texas (1892) was a pre-dreadnought battleship that was in commission from 1895 to 1911. 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 ...
The United States Navy began the construction of battleships with USS Texas in 1892, although its first ship to be designated as such was USS Indiana. Texas and USS Maine, [a] commissioned three years later in 1895, were part of the New Navy program of the late 19th century, a proposal by then Secretary of the Navy William H. Hunt to match ...
Maritimequest USS Texas BB-35 photo gallery; 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
USS Canberra (CAG-2) USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) USS Providence (CLG-6) USS Albany (CG-10) Artist conception of Strike cruiser Mark I variant (1976 version) With the exception of the purpose-built nuclear powered guided missile cruiser Long Beach, all of the early guided missile cruisers were converted heavy or light cruisers from the World War ...
USS Essex (CV-9) was an aircraft carrier and the lead ship of the twenty four-ship Essex class. The Essex class was the 20th century's most numerous class of capital ships, was the backbone of the U.S. Navy's combat strength during World War II from mid-1943 on, and (along with the addition of the three Midway -class carriers just after the war ...
USS Cannon (DE-99) 26 September 1943: 116 58 Edsall: FMR USS Edsall (DE-129) 10 April 1943 85 85 Rudderow: TEV USS Rudderow (DE-224) 15 May 1944: 252 21 John C. Butler: WGT USS John C. Butler (DE-339) 31 March 1944: 293 83 Dealey: SCB 72: USS Dealey (DE-1006) 3 June 1954 13 13 Claud Jones: SCB 131 USS Claud Jones (DE-1033) 10 February 1959
"USS Iowa Investigation Focuses on Gunpowder". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017; Polmar, Norman (2011). Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Volume I: 1909–1945. Dulles: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1-59797-344-1. Thompson, Shanna (12 June 2004).