@@cheddar2648 If the water pressure does blow a hole in the steel, it needed replacing. I would guess 50-75% of the steel at the waterline will be replaced and 20-30% of the rest of it. At a minimum.
@@aurktman1106 Just guessing but I think probably nearly everything at or around the wind/water line and at least half of the rest below the waterline, especially the lighter steel of the torpedo blisters and all the steel around the rudder post and where the propeller shafts exited the hull. Most of that is due to electrolytic corrosion caused by dissimilar metals immersed in salt water with little in the way of continuing protection from "sacrificial" zinc or other metals in those areas. Ryan on the Battleship New Jersey channel gave the best explanations I've come across yet.
Excellent Time Lapse! Looks like they're not wasting any time getting to work. Amazing the buoyancy required to float not only the dock structure itself but also lift a ~27,000 ton battleship out of the water along with it. This dry dock used to actually do the same for cruise ships in the Bahamas before Gulf Copper purchased it. It had been damaged during a hurricane and they cut part of it off so it was no longer long enough for cruise ship duties but looks to be perfectly suited for a WWI dreadnought.
They didnt waste any time. They had her up out of the water by Midnight on the same day she arrived. Yesterday was her first full day out of the water and they were already cleaning her hull up stripping it down to bare metal to start their work.
False the dock sank trying to lift the Oasis of the Seas out of the water to do hull scrubbing. The mid structure gave away and it snapped in half and sank. They sold the rear piece to Gulf Copper which was the part that had the crane collapse on it.
@@hanc37 I think that Todd Shipyard's work was supposed to have lasted longer than it did which is why they just dredged out the spot in La Porte rather than trying to build a permanent dry berth. As far as now the corrosion and leaks, etc. have been a problem for at least the last decade that I have been following the progress and the work on the ship. And they've been trying to raise the money to get her back into dry dock for a while. Thankfully the state legislature finally passed a spending package to get her back in for repair. About the most practical option now is that wherever the ship ends up they have provisions for a coffer dam similar to that used at the USS North Carolina. That way they can basically just dry-dock the ship in place for repairs when needed.
I'm glad to see the Ole girl getting some well-deserved yard time. It's long overdue! A special THANK YOU to everyone involved in this work. USS TEXAS is a National Treasure.
@@redmist5890 should have been this from Little Texas . . . The original video is awesome yet for the hearing impaired here is the song with lyrics. th-cam.com/video/hw_f7eIjjFk/w-d-xo.html
The "Big Baby" the magnificent Texas Battleship has her underbelly exposed. Bless her heart....repairs soon underway! Thank you for providing this time-lapsed video.
Amazing video! Super glad to see she's getting some good loving after quite a long time without being touched, amazing ship and an great video, keep us up to date!
This Dry Dock, is the one used to lift the largest cruise ships in the world. It was formerly the #1 Dry Dock at the Port of "Freeport" in The Bahamas. The Bahamians were angry when this unit left for Galveston ! It took with it, many thousands of jobs. As usual, The Bahamians did not have the foresight to find a replacement even though they had more than a years notice that it was on it's way to Galveston. Now the're crying. If you notice it's width, it was used to lift "The Symphony Of The Sea's" , 361 meters and a gross tonnage of 228.021 tons across 18 decks !
This dock broke and sank trying to lift too heavy of a ship. Gulf Copper bought half as it was going to scrap. The bow of the Texas is unsupported, as the dock is now shorter than the 573 ft. (175m) battleship.
I know that it's in saltwater yet if when they put the USS Texas back on display maybe they can place it in a fresh water birth to prevent corrosion? I also think that it should remain in Galveston Texas as it would add to more tourism. It did serve in both world wars. Definitely a piece of American naval history. Great job for everyone who is involved in it's preservation. God bless Texas. 👍🇺🇸
@@327JohnnySS Horrible idea. Watch Ryan's videos on Battleship New Jersey for more info, but basically all of these Freshwater and Dry Berth ideas are the worst ways to preserve the ship. According to the people actually operating museum Battleships, the best environment for them to be preserved is in the environment they were designed for. Saltwater. With sacrificial Anodes, Saltwater is even less corrosive than freshwater. Ships are designed to have pressure from all directions on the hull. Keeping them dry puts all the pressure on the keel and vertical structure which causes the ships to pancake. HMS Victory is having issues with this. If a Wooden sailing shop is having pancaking issues, what about a 27000 ton Battleship!
We had to dry dock in Bahrain after our ship got tagged pretty good by one of OUR OWN DANG subs going through the Starights of Hormuz and I'll tell you h'what, being under 24,000 TONs worth of ship while its sitting on old ass wood blocks and crumbling concrete will put some hair on your chest hahaha I don't know if it was psychosomatic or what, but you could feel the weight over you. Definitely a unique experience lol
I assumed you were referring to the _Hartford_ and _New Orleans_ collision? I was serving aboard a West Coast fast boat out of Kitsap when that happened, and strangely my next command the year after was _Green Bay_ so we were all familiar with it. I am curious what the collision felt like aboard _New Orleans_ because at sea on _Green Bay_ there was a back emergency bell answered in the Straits of Malacca at night, and from my rack on the O3 level (I think) the whole ship was shimmying. We were displacing 28,000 tons with a full deployment load of a MEU Battalion Landing team and all their vehicles, gear, and provisions as well as some aircraft and the full astern bell made it shake like on of those massage chairs. Wish I coulda seen what the water astern looked like. Never got see _Green Bay_ out of water sadly, but I did get to see the fast boat and the third ship, a destroyer out of water. Impressive engineering. For the interested: there are pictures out there of _Hartford's_ sail "riding at an obvious list" after that mishap. Sail safe everyone, EM2 SS out. 🐬🐬
It's psychological, that feeling of incredible pressure when you stand on the concrete floor of a drydock with 40k tons of steel over your head like some ginormous stormcloud. It's a wild and weird feeling. The blocks supporting my ship were in about the same shape as the ones you describe.
I've never been too big of a fan of the Texas's career (I'm more of a Warspite guy), but Texas sure as heck deserves to be restored to brand new condition. We can't just let the last dreadnaught slip through our fingers.
@@Boba-Fett-GS1150Ez Eh, I’ve personally never been into Texas’s career too much as she only ever saw shore bombardment (while Warspite engaged enemy battleships on several occasions), but I still like Texas
The Texas is the only remaining battleship to serve in both world wars. When launched she was the most technologically advanced thing in the world. She continued to be the first for many advances. Her generators could supply enough power to support 400 modern homes. Her electrical systems are incredible. As a point of perspective, she was launched in 1912 and accepted by the Navy in 1914. Cars made up until 1917 are still considered horseless carriages.
The British actually used their battleships for the purposes they were designed for, and ended up losing a few as a result. Aside from a couple of battles in the Pacific the US Navy never risked its battleships in direct surface combat, which is why most of them had such dull service careers. The only US battleship to have a career even remotely like the British BBs was the Washington, and nobody ever thought to save her from the scrapyard.
@@DK-gy7ll well, at least in the second world war, we didn't really need to use them for killing surface targets when we were mass producing fleet carriers and producing escort carriers faster than the Japanese could build light cruisers. Sure, an Iowa could pound anything short of the yamato into scrap, but why do that when you have several Essex, each able to do massive damage from much further away
Very nice that she survived the trip to the dock well. The main thing is not to experience the rude awakening at the trunk state. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Towards the end of the video you can see streams of water not only from the regular overboard discharge near the port side stern but also smaller streams coming from what I have to assume are holes eaten through the steel, starboard side aft (facing us,) at least two that I could see, small but definitely there well below the waterline. But now the Lady is getting the help she needs. I loved the views of her coming down channel, standing tall and proud.
We shall never forget what makes Texas great. "Remember the Alamo " . The Texas was commissioned in 1912 making it a piece of Texas that is 110 yrs old. God bless Texas. . .th-cam.com/video/mbH60wCO-Yw/w-d-xo.html
I’m surprised the bottom looks so clean. My sailboat bottom with anti-fouling paint was heavily covered in barnacles and growth after 36 months in a Galveston bay marina. Great to see her getting some love
@@hanc37 Texas has been free floating since her last drydocking if she were in the mud, she wouldn't need the big pylons to keep her stable at her old berth.
@@hanc37 she was sitting in mud before the lay dry dock repairs in 1989 but since then has been floating the whole time except for occasional extreme low tide events.
@@Rav_4_Guy I suspect your idea of scrap is probably most likely. Post-war downsizing and all, and Texas had been gifted to the state and was sent to San Jacinto I think
Now that it is out of the water and you can see the bottom it is even more fascinating! I would suggest displaying her in a similar way to the ship the Cutty Sark here in the U.K. with that ship they have her in a dry dock with a glass ceiling at the water line. You can then walk underneath it and around it. It also allows for permanent display’s of equipment to be shown that may be hidden away in the ship.
@@TheElnots Ships have openings in the hulls. Some are for sea chests, the main water intakes and others are to get water out. Perfectly normal. Others are to let water out. She would not have remained afloat if those were open holes. About 1500 tons of water were pumped into the ship for ballast before making the trip to Galveston. It was being pumped out as the dry dock was floated back up. There is damage to the hull from corrosion/rust but it is in the form of leaks. I believe I heard that about 2000 gallons/day were being pumped out.
I can't think of a more historically important military artifact than the U.S.S. Texas except for perhaps the Spear of Destiny or the Ark of The Covenant. I hope they can save her.
I am happy that the US were able so save the Texas. I wish the Brits could have done the same with their formidable HMS Warspite. And for us Germans it would have been good to save the KMS Prinz Eugen rather than having it uselessly sunk in a nuclear test. I know it may be nonsense from an economical point of view but these are just wonderful ships. Greetings from Germany for the American shipbuilders who save the Texas. Thank you very much!
The Navy removed them in 1948 before handing her over to be a museum ship. They still have one of the props, there is a video on the battleship Texas's youtube channel of it after they recently restored it.
The guys over at Texas said this was going to happen, as they ballasted her to about 28k tons to reduce stress on the hull, I guess by spreading load across a larger area.
i bet the texas is happy to be out of the water after being left to rot after all those years in the water also i wouldnt pressure wash the hull the pressure from the water would make some holes in the very rusty hull u could probably hit it with a screwdriver and puncture the hull
Shaft seals require constant water pressure to stay sealed, and thus lots of maintenance. There's an inflatable seal for when the shaft is locked, but even it requires some maintenance. Propellers and shafts are routinely pulled from decommissioned ships for this reason. If possible the propellers and shafts are reused , otherwise they are stored. Eventually they may end up as static displays somewhere.
It`s a big shame for America that this former great warrior is only a rusty and rotten wreck now. Shame, shame, shame! I hope she gets fully restored to sail with her own engines.
Steam boilers are incredibly dangerous, it is well beyond the capabilities of any privately funded museum to keep boilers of this size and pressure in a safe operating condition.
Repair of the Texas does not come from the American Government but from the citizens of the state of Texas. It now has to survive on donations and paying visitors for funding.
The time of Battleships have come and gone. Even in the Regan era when the Iowa Battleships were being re-activated, the Texas was woefully obsolete. But as a Museum ship,she still serves a purpose. And may she do so for a long time to come.
I was watching the horizon expecting the ship to rise above it before I realized that the dry dock was sinking. So the Texas wasn't "lifted" out of the water, it stayed almost level. Duh. I guess that's how a dry dock works.
I have this incredible urge to run out there with a pressure washer! Awesome time lapse!
That was the first thing they did yesterday.
I wonder how many new and larger holes pressurized water made in that hull. Look around the rudder at the corrosion.
@@cheddar2648 If the water pressure does blow a hole in the steel, it needed replacing. I would guess 50-75% of the steel at the waterline will be replaced and 20-30% of the rest of it. At a minimum.
@@aurktman1106 Just guessing but I think probably nearly everything at or around the wind/water line and at least half of the rest below the waterline, especially the lighter steel of the torpedo blisters and all the steel around the rudder post and where the propeller shafts exited the hull. Most of that is due to electrolytic corrosion caused by dissimilar metals immersed in salt water with little in the way of continuing protection from "sacrificial" zinc or other metals in those areas.
Ryan on the Battleship New Jersey channel gave the best explanations I've come across yet.
@@robertf3479 Yeah, Ryan def knows what he's talking about
Excellent Time Lapse! Looks like they're not wasting any time getting to work. Amazing the buoyancy required to float not only the dock structure itself but also lift a ~27,000 ton battleship out of the water along with it. This dry dock used to actually do the same for cruise ships in the Bahamas before Gulf Copper purchased it. It had been damaged during a hurricane and they cut part of it off so it was no longer long enough for cruise ship duties but looks to be perfectly suited for a WWI dreadnought.
It was actually damaged by trying to dock a ship beyond it's capabilities.
They didnt waste any time. They had her up out of the water by Midnight on the same day she arrived. Yesterday was her first full day out of the water and they were already cleaning her hull up stripping it down to bare metal to start their work.
False the dock sank trying to lift the Oasis of the Seas out of the water to do hull scrubbing. The mid structure gave away and it snapped in half and sank. They sold the rear piece to Gulf Copper which was the part that had the crane collapse on it.
Why didn't they permanently dry dock when they first restored it in 1989? They had to know that they would have to do it again 30 years later.
@@hanc37 I think that Todd Shipyard's work was supposed to have lasted longer than it did which is why they just dredged out the spot in La Porte rather than trying to build a permanent dry berth. As far as now the corrosion and leaks, etc. have been a problem for at least the last decade that I have been following the progress and the work on the ship. And they've been trying to raise the money to get her back into dry dock for a while. Thankfully the state legislature finally passed a spending package to get her back in for repair. About the most practical option now is that wherever the ship ends up they have provisions for a coffer dam similar to that used at the USS North Carolina. That way they can basically just dry-dock the ship in place for repairs when needed.
Gives you an appreciation of the mission portable drydocks performed in WWII.
Same concept, berthing a crippled warship seeking intense repairs.
We had one at Portland, ME for years. I think it went to Croatia early 2000s. It served in WW2 and housed several hundred workers.
This shows something few people get to see
I'm always in awe watching such events
So happy to see this still beautiful lady being cared for.
There also some amazing still photos of the final result. Amazing vision
Where?
Well done!! So excited to watch her from upper bay, she was beautiful as she pushed the sun to the awaiting skies.
I'm glad to see the Ole girl getting some well-deserved yard time. It's long overdue!
A special THANK YOU to everyone involved in this work. USS TEXAS is a National Treasure.
Please. Make her Whole again! We lost Warspite! Save Texas!
The very thing I wanted to see! Thank you!
Yep shame about the music
@@redmist5890 should have been this from Little Texas . . . The original video is awesome yet for the hearing impaired here is the song with lyrics. th-cam.com/video/hw_f7eIjjFk/w-d-xo.html
God bless Texas . . .th-cam.com/video/mbH60wCO-Yw/w-d-xo.html
THIS IS A EVENT OF HISTORY WE SHALL NEVER FORGET GOD BLESS TEXAS
The "Big Baby" the magnificent Texas Battleship has her underbelly exposed. Bless her heart....repairs soon underway! Thank you for providing this time-lapsed video.
I was wondering if that was what they were doing, I'm glad she is finally getting much needed maintenance.
Amazing video! Super glad to see she's getting some good loving after quite a long time without being touched, amazing ship and an great video, keep us up to date!
This Dry Dock, is the one used to lift the largest cruise ships in the world. It was formerly the #1 Dry Dock at the Port of "Freeport" in The Bahamas. The Bahamians were angry when this unit left for Galveston ! It took with it, many thousands of jobs. As usual, The Bahamians did not have the foresight to find a replacement even though they had more than a years notice that it was on it's way to Galveston. Now the're crying. If you notice it's width, it was used to lift "The Symphony Of The Sea's" , 361 meters and a gross tonnage of 228.021 tons across 18 decks !
This dock broke and sank trying to lift too heavy of a ship. Gulf Copper bought half as it was going to scrap. The bow of the Texas is unsupported, as the dock is now shorter than the 573 ft. (175m) battleship.
Doug, The drydock is here in Galveston now and doing a great job! Robert Mihovil , Mihovil Photography
Ya, the jobs sank to the bottom when they broke … galve brought it and fixed it.
I know that it's in saltwater yet if when they put the USS Texas back on display maybe they can place it in a fresh water birth to prevent corrosion? I also think that it should remain in Galveston Texas as it would add to more tourism. It did serve in both world wars. Definitely a piece of American naval history. Great job for everyone who is involved in it's preservation. God bless Texas. 👍🇺🇸
@@327JohnnySS Horrible idea. Watch Ryan's videos on Battleship New Jersey for more info, but basically all of these Freshwater and Dry Berth ideas are the worst ways to preserve the ship. According to the people actually operating museum Battleships, the best environment for them to be preserved is in the environment they were designed for. Saltwater. With sacrificial Anodes, Saltwater is even less corrosive than freshwater. Ships are designed to have pressure from all directions on the hull. Keeping them dry puts all the pressure on the keel and vertical structure which causes the ships to pancake. HMS Victory is having issues with this. If a Wooden sailing shop is having pancaking issues, what about a 27000 ton Battleship!
We had to dry dock in Bahrain after our ship got tagged pretty good by one of OUR OWN DANG subs going through the Starights of Hormuz and I'll tell you h'what, being under 24,000 TONs worth of ship while its sitting on old ass wood blocks and crumbling concrete will put some hair on your chest hahaha
I don't know if it was psychosomatic or what, but you could feel the weight over you. Definitely a unique experience lol
I assumed you were referring to the _Hartford_ and _New Orleans_ collision? I was serving aboard a West Coast fast boat out of Kitsap when that happened, and strangely my next command the year after was _Green Bay_ so we were all familiar with it. I am curious what the collision felt like aboard _New Orleans_ because at sea on _Green Bay_ there was a back emergency bell answered in the Straits of Malacca at night, and from my rack on the O3 level (I think) the whole ship was shimmying. We were displacing 28,000 tons with a full deployment load of a MEU Battalion Landing team and all their vehicles, gear, and provisions as well as some aircraft and the full astern bell made it shake like on of those massage chairs. Wish I coulda seen what the water astern looked like. Never got see _Green Bay_ out of water sadly, but I did get to see the fast boat and the third ship, a destroyer out of water. Impressive engineering.
For the interested: there are pictures out there of _Hartford's_ sail "riding at an obvious list" after that mishap. Sail safe everyone, EM2 SS out. 🐬🐬
It's psychological, that feeling of incredible pressure when you stand on the concrete floor of a drydock with 40k tons of steel over your head like some ginormous stormcloud. It's a wild and weird feeling. The blocks supporting my ship were in about the same shape as the ones you describe.
Take care of the old girl she is worth every penny
Thank you Saltwater - Recon for the fantastic video of our Texss Battleship being drydocked!
I've never been too big of a fan of the Texas's career (I'm more of a Warspite guy), but Texas sure as heck deserves to be restored to brand new condition. We can't just let the last dreadnaught slip through our fingers.
@@Boba-Fett-GS1150Ez Eh, I’ve personally never been into Texas’s career too much as she only ever saw shore bombardment (while Warspite engaged enemy battleships on several occasions), but I still like Texas
@@metaknight115 The German High Seas Fleet turned for home within sight of Texas on a couple of occasions.
The Texas is the only remaining battleship to serve in both world wars. When launched she was the most technologically advanced thing in the world. She continued to be the first for many advances. Her generators could supply enough power to support 400 modern homes. Her electrical systems are incredible. As a point of perspective, she was launched in 1912 and accepted by the Navy in 1914. Cars made up until 1917 are still considered horseless carriages.
The British actually used their battleships for the purposes they were designed for, and ended up losing a few as a result. Aside from a couple of battles in the Pacific the US Navy never risked its battleships in direct surface combat, which is why most of them had such dull service careers. The only US battleship to have a career even remotely like the British BBs was the Washington, and nobody ever thought to save her from the scrapyard.
@@DK-gy7ll well, at least in the second world war, we didn't really need to use them for killing surface targets when we were mass producing fleet carriers and producing escort carriers faster than the Japanese could build light cruisers. Sure, an Iowa could pound anything short of the yamato into scrap, but why do that when you have several Essex, each able to do massive damage from much further away
I've been aboard two dry docked vessels, USS Henry Clay (SSBN 625) and USS Canopus (AS 34).
Very nice that she survived the trip to the dock well. The main thing is not to experience the rude awakening at the trunk state. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Hope she gets all the love she needs, what a beautiful piece of history.
Towards the end of the video you can see streams of water not only from the regular overboard discharge near the port side stern but also smaller streams coming from what I have to assume are holes eaten through the steel, starboard side aft (facing us,) at least two that I could see, small but definitely there well below the waterline.
But now the Lady is getting the help she needs. I loved the views of her coming down channel, standing tall and proud.
We shall never forget what makes Texas great. "Remember the Alamo " . The Texas was commissioned in 1912 making it a piece of Texas that is 110 yrs old. God bless Texas. . .th-cam.com/video/mbH60wCO-Yw/w-d-xo.html
Great to see this battleship getting restored!
I’m surprised the bottom looks so clean. My sailboat bottom with anti-fouling paint was heavily covered in barnacles and growth after 36 months in a Galveston bay marina. Great to see her getting some love
That's because it was sitting in the mud. Otherwise, it would be covered in barnacles....
@@hanc37 Texas has been free floating since her last drydocking if she were in the mud, she wouldn't need the big pylons to keep her stable at her old berth.
@@Atlasworkinprogress The water is mud. Buffalo bayou, ship channel, the mud from the Mississippi River that we are blessed with in Galveston Bay....
@@hanc37 she was sitting in mud before the lay dry dock repairs in 1989 but since then has been floating the whole time except for occasional extreme low tide events.
Ive been in the USS Argo before. Its great to see that shes' final getting taken care of.
I didn’t know they had removed the propellers.
Great thing is they are going to make it better. We need to keep history not forget
The propellers and shafts were removed in 1948
@@HM2SGT ah thank you. Suppose they went on another ship or scrap
@@Rav_4_Guy I suspect your idea of scrap is probably most likely. Post-war downsizing and all, and Texas had been gifted to the state and was sent to San Jacinto I think
I wish they would replace the screws and shafts and redo the boilers, so she could steam to her new port under her own power.
@@Rav_4_Guy they have one of the screws and the other was kept by the Navy and it’s whereabouts is now unknown.
Now that it is out of the water and you can see the bottom it is even more fascinating! I would suggest displaying her in a similar way to the ship the Cutty Sark here in the U.K.
with that ship they have her in a dry dock with a glass ceiling at the water line. You can then walk underneath it and around it. It also allows for permanent display’s of equipment to be shown that may be hidden away in the ship.
It wouldn’t work for a ship of this size. The pressure of the water on the hull keeps it from collapsing in after a long period of time.
What a sight. Is a pity more of these awesome ships were not saved. HMS Dreadnought for example.
The USS Texas is on my bucket list.
Glad this ship is finally in dry dock where it has needed to go for years for necessary repairs.
Texas without propellers is like killing her strenght and "speed"
Hope she gets new propellers
Awesome. Give the ol girl the luv she’s been needing 👍🙏
yall need to build a permanent dry dock at her home in laporte so you can empty the water every few years for maintenance..
would save millions
Great job brother
I am glad the old girl is going to get some “Me Time” , and have a pampering.....she has earned it.
The Texas has landed.
This Drydock use to belong to Cascade General ship repair in Portland , Oregon . I use to work there in the late 1980's
When will the USS Texas complete her renovations and restorations?
Sad to see all that damage below the waterline.
Yeah I was noticing those holes in the rear above the rudder, which is cocked to the side.... Hope they get long-lasting repairs done on her!
@@TheElnots Ships have openings in the hulls. Some are for sea chests, the main water intakes and others are to get water out. Perfectly normal. Others are to let water out. She would not have remained afloat if those were open holes. About 1500 tons of water were pumped into the ship for ballast before making the trip to Galveston. It was being pumped out as the dry dock was floated back up. There is damage to the hull from corrosion/rust but it is in the form of leaks. I believe I heard that about 2000 gallons/day were being pumped out.
@@TheElnots The epoxy that they used a third of a century ago didn’t do too badly considering how long it was immersed in salt water
This was absolutely AWESOME! Thank you for making the vudeo!
I can't think of a more historically important military artifact than the U.S.S. Texas except for perhaps the Spear of Destiny or the Ark of The Covenant. I hope they can save her.
I am happy that the US were able so save the Texas. I wish the Brits could have done the same with their formidable HMS Warspite. And for us Germans it would have been good to save the KMS Prinz Eugen rather than having it uselessly sunk in a nuclear test. I know it may be nonsense from an economical point of view but these are just wonderful ships. Greetings from Germany for the American shipbuilders who save the Texas. Thank you very much!
Very cool..thanks for sharing this!
I saw one hole with water coming out would have very interesting to see how many holes were actually in it
Excellent. Thank you for posting
Hopefully that floating dry dock doesn't sink again and have anymore part break off again?
Was the rudder deflected for a right turn all through the tow?
Yes, it's rusted in place at around 20°.
That's part of the reason why they had another tug hooked up to her stern, to help steer her and keep her on course.
Great video I was hoping to see this , are they going to thickness test sections and replace as needed or just a wholesale replacement of plates.
Thank goodness she is being saved!
I assume we got to see a couple of those leaks. Yikes!
I'm so glad the old girl is getting fixed up! We discard far too much history in this country.
I never got to see my first surface ship--25,000 tons of big gray sexy as our captain called her--out of the water, so I thank you for this.
Texas needs to be permanently drydocked, like the Mikasa. And in a popular urban area!
thanks for sharing this with us!
Archimedes would be impressed. Simply amazing to this land lubber.
So cool. Love the Texass.
This is SO freakin cool!
112 years of... where hell did that come from?
Thank you for this
It’s about time this historic ship gets the treatment she deserves
Are the props gone? Is there a story there?
The Navy removed them in 1948 before handing her over to be a museum ship. They still have one of the props, there is a video on the battleship Texas's youtube channel of it after they recently restored it.
Thank you for the Video .
Thanks for the share!!
That was a steady stream of water coming out of the port side pump.
The guys over at Texas said this was going to happen, as they ballasted her to about 28k tons to reduce stress on the hull, I guess by spreading load across a larger area.
@@FltCaptAlan Makes sense. Thanks for the information.
Mighty T ! getting a face lift !!! 🍺👍😀
Ouch, you can see water just pouring out of a rust hole.
cool music
i bet the texas is happy to be out of the water after being left to rot after all those years in the water also i wouldnt pressure wash the hull the pressure from the water would make some holes in the very rusty hull u could probably hit it with a screwdriver and puncture the hull
Amazing,, thanks for making 🙂
Would have been better without the star burst filter!
You’ve taken care of us for a very long time old girl, now just sit and rest, it’s our turn to take care of you….
how much work would it take to get the engine running again?
Silly question but are the propellers removed?
So they could seal the place where the shafts passed through the hull, and removed a major source of dangerous leaks.
Shaft seals require constant water pressure to stay sealed, and thus lots of maintenance. There's an inflatable seal for when the shaft is locked, but even it requires some maintenance. Propellers and shafts are routinely pulled from decommissioned ships for this reason. If possible the propellers and shafts are reused , otherwise they are stored. Eventually they may end up as static displays somewhere.
Wow, so even it’s propellers are gone and it’s rudder too, I know she wouldn’t be able to use them anymore but that still feels wrong
The rudder is there. The propellers have been gone since ... 1948 or so.
Up she goes
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very coool nice towwing ship carrier...
can this towwing ship carrier american aircraft carrier or not
Scrap iron price finally got high enough to justify the move?
Shuddap
Thanks
So glad!
Must better with the sound turned off
It was sitting pretty low at the stern
Yes. Apparently about 6" clearance at the threshold was all there was...
This would be better without the sound tract!
It`s a big shame for America that this former great warrior is only a rusty and rotten wreck now. Shame, shame, shame! I hope she gets fully restored to sail with her own engines.
They removed the props and the engines and boilers don't work anymore.
Part of the Navy contract to become a museum ship is never operating the boilers or engines.
Steam boilers are incredibly dangerous, it is well beyond the capabilities of any privately funded museum to keep boilers of this size and pressure in a safe operating condition.
Repair of the Texas does not come from the American Government but from the citizens of the state of Texas. It now has to survive on donations and paying visitors for funding.
@@rocketguardian2001 The engines are still there - just the tail-shafts and propellers removed.
That’s a lot of water she’s pissing out of her stern!
How much time elapsed?
such a beautiful lady!
I like the part where the bildge/leak water drains out of hull onto deck of the drydock ..lil
Lol- erra'
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Are they gonna recommission it?
? ? ? Are you looney? It's not a World of Warships game.
Finally!
what is the name of this song?
Sharing
Refitting it for the next global conflict?
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I think the navy should make her fully operational again
Why ? For what purpose ??
The time of Battleships have come and gone.
Even in the Regan era when the Iowa Battleships were being re-activated, the Texas was woefully obsolete.
But as a Museum ship,she still serves a purpose. And may she do so for a long time to come.
I was watching the horizon expecting the ship to rise above it before I realized that the dry dock was sinking. So the Texas wasn't "lifted" out of the water, it stayed almost level. Duh. I guess that's how a dry dock works.
I guess you didn't watch closely enough because the ship and drydock both rise and the Texas does get higher versus the horizon!
The dry dock was rising out of the water.
It's actually a floating dock, that lifts the ship out of the water - a dry dock is a different thing.
I saw something possible terrible
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Who in the hell came up with the idea for the hideous music?
Horrible music made it so hard to watch
scrap it
That would be the practical thing to do, for sure.
Some people actually enjoy historical things.
@@paulbrown1585 Tf are you talking about? No it's not.
They should scrap your genetic line.