"Texas was done trying to hate the Normandy coast out of existance" quite possible the greatest line from a history video I've heard in a long time, please don't ever stop with one liners like that in your videos, fantastic video again, thank you so much 👍
At Point du Hoc there are still craters from Texas' 14" guns. They preserved that whole cliff as it was from June 1944. The biggest craters were done by Texas.
@@nogoodnameleft I've been to point du hoc, its quite a sight to be seen, the original black and white aerial photos look like photos of the surface of the moon
The USS Texas was a fine battleship that served her country with dignity in two world wars and survived to tell the tale. Let the mighty T live on as the world’s last dreadnought!!!🇺🇸
They really should dig out a new docking place for Texas concrete that location and permanently dry dock it there. Otherwise there will be a point where they cannot get funding to refit it again every 10-20 years...
@@geronimo5537 Not a good idea for large capital ships to be permanently in drydock. You act like something that is perfect for small ships like destroyers and submarines can be done for battleships and aircraft carriers. Those torpedo blisters on Texas are a lot of added weight and make it hard to do a permanent drydock.
...and had he not been talking out of his butt during the Tet Offensive, we would've won the Vietnam War; even the Communist North pointed out that they were completely exhausted militarily at that time and would have surrendered voluntarily, if not for Cronkite's baseless, emotion-driven outburst precipitating the withdrawal of troops.
I’m a 70yo Veteran and my Father and Uncle were in WW2. My dad was in the Army Air Corp and my Uncle was in the Navy. As a kid everyone on our block in NY was related somehow. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived right behind our home. Growing up was a great experience for all of us. My uncle would tell us stories about the war in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. We were mesmerized by his stories. I remember he was on a battleship and loaded ammunition into the guns. He hated the Japanese with a vengeance. I wonder how he would react to today’s world. I don’t think he would understand. He was a very tuff and stubborn man. It was his way or the highway. He scared all of us kids and most of our parents also. Now that I’m getting to be an old man myself and a lot of my friends have passed on I’m beginning to look forward to seeing my Dad and Uncle again when it’s my time. I know that might sound a little strange but if you are under 40 just remember this when you’re in your 70’s . I always watched Walter Cronkite on channel 2 in NYC and still compare newscasters of today with Walter. The mainstream media of today should be ashamed to call themselves News Reporters. Walter is definitely pissed off. All I can say now is enjoy your life be a good man or woman teach your children what they need to survive and how to be happy and remember we will see each other again.
Walter really helped lower morale in the 60s/70s with the Vietnam war. He insinuated that we had lost the war with his personal opinions that weren’t warranted or needed. Lost or not his job was to report the news not express personal opinion!
I went onto The Texas in 2012 and again in 2016, it was like stepping back in time. Great to see that kind of History, really looking forward to going back and see her after he dry docking is complete.
I know. To me, it's just as an open feeling to be there as it is in Vicksburg. To think of the men who had fought the battle, and died. Exact same thing: You can hear the soldier's final cries for help. To see the men bleeding out. To hear anything and everything. Whether it's 1863, or 1943,same exact same thing. Why do I bring up 1863? The Civil War.
Thank you for sharing When a youngster, my father took us to see the battleship TEXAS, they had a machine that for around 75¢ would heat up wax and pour into a mold and give you a little replica. I still have it. 😎🏆🙏🇺🇸
The Texas by part of her being used, sank the first Japanese ship in the Pacific. The 5 inch guns taken off in 1925 and not used on the Texas were sent to Wake Island for shore batteries. During the first attack on Wake Island the guns sank a Japanese destroyer. During the 44 refurbishment they added a dumb waiter and a steam serving line. I used to be a Docent on the Texas in the 90's.
I lived about 70 miles from San Jacinto her old berth so I got to visit the ship several times. I have been all over Texas. Seeing her slowly decaying even after a dry docking in the late 80's was sad. Watching the Texas state government do nothing about it was maddening. I was so happy she got to dry dock last year.
The Texas government and the Texas taxpayers have spent a total of $70M on the new drydock repairs (so $70M from 2020 to now) and in the 2010s they spent $54M to fix the engine rooms on Texas and also to pump the water out of Texas which had so many leaks. Those engine rooms repairs were crucial because the structure/frames holding the engines were never fixed/changed since the 1920s refit and they were on the verge of collapsing and they would have completely destroyed the bottom of Texas, making it impossible to save her. The engines on Texas are original from the 1910s when she was first commissioned, unlike the other 7 battleship museums who either have replicas (North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Alabama) or commandeered the engines of those 3 battleship museums because they were returned to active duty in the 1980s (4 Iowa class battleships). The engine rooms are now in such good shape and in a stable condition that they won't have to touch it for another 80 years or so.
@@wendywhite4537 HMS Warspite should have been saved too. At least we aren't like the British. They destroyed/scrapped all their battleships and aircraft carriers. The only medium sized WWII ship that they preserved was HMS Belfast, a light cruiser. We have preserved 8 battleships and 5 aircraft carriers including the only dreadnought battleship. The other 7 battleships are fast battleships from the 1940s (different category than the old 1910s/20s dreadnoughts. Texas is the only one left that looks similar to Arizona, Oklahoma, and the battleships from Pearl Harbor.
The USS TEXAS is such a beautiful ship…I’m so glad that she is getting her much needed dry dock time🫡….loved the video, very interesting to learn more about the Texas’s career…
I lived in Highlands which is across I-10 and a ferry ride away from the San Jacinto Battlegrounds. Seeing her there was always a special thing. Now that she's gone it is very sad driving by there, but I'm very happy to see her being repaired. I don't care where they put her. I will gladly go to see her. I hope she is around long after I'm gone so my grandchildren can visit her and learn her history.
My daughter and her family are Texans (we are Australian). Inlove this battleship. I have a piece of her hull as I support her restoration. Its a credit to her captain and crew she survived the Pacific campaign
I visited the ship in dry dock in Galveston 2 months ago. I had toured the ship at the San Jacinto site twice, and standing underneath the hull was incredible. The amount of work to rivet it together and then to add the torpedo blisters in the 1920s was staggering.
When they took up her decking the last time, the historical society folk offered up 1911 grips made from the wood and sold them to the public. I got a set and they are a great piece of history.
I've toured the Mikasa. It's Age of Sail warship parentage in its design is striking. I recently learned that the hull of Texas was actually a lot sleeker when it first entered service and that it became chonky when torpedo blisters were added in the interwar years. 🇺🇸/👁️\🇷🇺
Interesting to see the several different bridge configurations prior to her 1920's refit. Or some of those pictures weren't actually Texas but her slightly different sister, USS New York.
Texas is special because even when you hear of her rich history, life of adventure and service to her country from a young warship who was the most powerful weapon on earth for a time to an old weathered war machine of a bygone era... you can still visit her in person and walk aboard her. The last of her kind, still alive and breathing to this day.
A few days ago on her 120th birthday, the USS Texas was taken out of drydock and floated to a nearby dock to finish her topside replacement of her wood deck, final painting, and the refitting of her fully restored weapons. From there, she will be floating to her final Home Port, where she will be dry docked for public viewing.
My son loves playing call of duty ww2. His favorite map to play on is the uss texas…. He was 6 at the time. I asked him if he wanted to really go see the battleship? He was like it’s still around????? I’m yeah it’s about a 20 min drive. We get some other family members and we go over there. It was the last time people could visit before she was towed away for dry dock. He loved it, thought it was the most incredible thing. I don’t think it’s going back to San Jacinto. Probably going to get a spot right there in Galveston. There is a park that has a submarine and a destroyer there. Probably put it there. Who knows… I remember when hurricane Harvey hit, there was rumours going around that the Texas floated away and was downtown 😂😂😂😂 a lot of people considered it.
Battleship Texas was designed and construction started over 110yrs ago, before the Titanic sank in 1912... and had tripple expansion steam engines with similar basic design as Titanic. (much different than battleship Iowa or New Jersey, which had steam turbine propulsion)
Texas is the only remaining battleship that actually looks like all the battleships in Pearl Harbor in 1941 during the attack. The 3 non-Iowa battleships that are now museum ships, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Alabama, are fast battleships and not dreadnoughts/superdreadnoughts like Texas and those 3 battleships used steam turbine engines unlike Texas. Texas is the only remaining battleship with her original engines from when she was first built. The 4 Iowa battleships jettisoned their ancient engines in the 1980s when they were re-activated by Reagan and they even commandeered engines from Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Alabama museum ships so the 3 non-Iowa battleships' engines now are replicas while the Iowa battleships all have a mixture of new engines from the 1980s combined with cannibalized engine parts from those 3 other museum ships.
My dad would take and my sister to the San jacinto monument and we would go the battleship every year we would go more and more of ship was closed I'm really excited to see it after they get through working on it.
There is an older battleship than Mikasa a first rate line of battle ship launched in 1759 that still exists as not only a museum ship but as the flagship of the First Sea Lord and which was at Trafalgar; HMS Victory
That is not "Mikasa" that is a supposed museum ship. 80% of that "Mikasa" is replica pieces or cannibalized equipment from two South American dreadnoughts in the process of being scrapped in the 1950s. What a joke to call that "Mikasa". The real Mikasa was destroyed in a mammoth explosion back in 1905 after Tsushima when she sank in her homeport and they had to essentially rebuild her.
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Before World War II, Britain was preparing for war with the US, as the massive American ship building program was threatening long standing British naval policy that the Royal Navy must be more powerful than the next two navies combined. They passed down to Japan the latest British designs and technology, Japan being seen as a potential ally in the pacific in that coming war, this is why Japan was able to field modern ships in such a short time. It was only Japan's eventual alliance with Germany and its campaign to conquer Indochina and Hong Kong that scuttled (pun intended) any British-Japanese future alliance.
Yes. Britain's campaign to arm Japan with state of the art battleships in the 1890s paid off. Japan destroyed both the Chinese Navy and Russian Navy with those British warships and they effectively did Britain's dirty work for them (take out both the Qing Dynasty and Russian Empire). We should blame Britain for the rise of Japan but for some reason we aren't supposed to talk about it.
It was between Baytown, Galveston and Beaumont in the Houston area. Baytown and Beaumont have dropped out. They have the same problem as the berth in the Battleground, brackish water. A mixture of fresh water and sea water. If Galveston is the winner, I should think that she would be mored in Sea Wolf Park. As long as she doesn't leave the state she's named for! My dad was one of the many Texas school children who brought in nickles and dimes to buy her from the Navy. And I have trod her decks in my turn. She's a wonderful lady!
They really should dig out a new docking place for Texas concrete that location and permanently dry dock it there. Otherwise there will be a point where they cannot get funding to refit it again every 10-20 years...
Not possible for a large ship. Which capital ship the same size as her has a permanent drydock? Her torpedo blisters are so huge and make her so wide that that makes it impossible. All other aircraft carriers and battleship museums are in the water. Mikasa doesn't really count because she is smaller than most WWII cruisers and only about 20% of what we see is "Mikasa" is the original Mikasa. 80% of that museum ship are replicas or recycled equipment from other non-predreadnought ships on the scrapping block. All of the superstructure on Mikasa today are replicas or salvaged parts from two South American dreadnought battleships in the 1950s even though Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship. All the "guns" on Mikasa are fiberglass fakes.
The Cavour & Dulios were not able to slog it out with the RN battleline but for any other role in the Med they were good enough. In particular they were faster than & outranged all of the RN's R class and Barham & Malaya and could choose to decline engagement against any RN ship except the KGVs & the battlecruisers. Likewise they were capable of fighting any French ship up to the Richelieu & Jean Bart. Hence I see them as useful units and better than the death traps that the unmodernised ships would have been. It is worth noting that after Calabria Cunningham requested more modernised QE class for the Med as he only had Warspite which could match the Italian ships for range.
Sooo, no ship vs ship anything with this ship. And then this gets overhauled while the UUS Enterprise, which had to hold the line alone against the Japanese Empire for (how long?) was scrapped. So sad.
Cope. Enterprise didn't fight in WWI. Texas did. That alone makes her very special and unique. She is the only surviving capital ship that fought in both WWI and WWII. Escorting merchant ships and doing patrols to make sure the Germans can't do more Jutlands in WWI is not "doing nothing" or "staying idle". At least Texas isn't like "Mikasa" which is not the real Mikasa. All of Texas that we see is original equipment and hull from the 1910s, her 1920s refit, and 1940s refit. 80% of "Mikasa" are replica fakes or cannibalized equipment from two South American dreadnought battleships that were being scrapped in Japan in the 1950s even though Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship.
The Dreadnought and others were 12” guns w/ Germany at 11” to carry heavier armor at same displacement. The jump to 13.5” and 14” guns created the “super” label.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Last dreadnought. Dreadnoughts were the extremely slow battleships built in the 1910s and 1920s before the Washington Naval Treaty put a moratorium on the construction of new battleships. The surviving 1940s battleships like North Carolina, Alabama, and Massachusetts and 4 Iowa-class battleships are fast battleships. Fast battleships were built to escort aircraft carriers while slow dreadnought battleships like Texas were designed with ancient Tsushima and Jutland battleship battles in mind.
@@nogoodnameleft Hello, perhaps in 1910, the designers of the 1940s fast attack battleships were still in their infancy. Don't forget that the U.S.S. New York & U.S.S. Texas were the ultimate in Battleships.
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"Texas was done trying to hate the Normandy coast out of existance" quite possible the greatest line from a history video I've heard in a long time, please don't ever stop with one liners like that in your videos, fantastic video again, thank you so much 👍
At Point du Hoc there are still craters from Texas' 14" guns. They preserved that whole cliff as it was from June 1944. The biggest craters were done by Texas.
@@nogoodnameleft I've been to point du hoc, its quite a sight to be seen, the original black and white aerial photos look like photos of the surface of the moon
The USS Texas was a fine battleship that served her country with dignity in two world wars and survived to tell the tale. Let the mighty T live on as the world’s last dreadnought!!!🇺🇸
They really should dig out a new docking place for Texas concrete that location and permanently dry dock it there. Otherwise there will be a point where they cannot get funding to refit it again every 10-20 years...
@@geronimo5537 Not a good idea for large capital ships to be permanently in drydock. You act like something that is perfect for small ships like destroyers and submarines can be done for battleships and aircraft carriers. Those torpedo blisters on Texas are a lot of added weight and make it hard to do a permanent drydock.
Walter Cronkite. If you were a WW2 vet or a Korean War vet, or a boomer he was the voice of your news. His voice is stamped on my memory.
...and had he not been talking out of his butt during the Tet Offensive, we would've won the Vietnam War; even the Communist North pointed out that they were completely exhausted militarily at that time and would have surrendered voluntarily, if not for Cronkite's baseless, emotion-driven outburst precipitating the withdrawal of troops.
"And that's the way it was."
I’m a 70yo Veteran and my Father and Uncle were in WW2. My dad was in the Army Air Corp and my Uncle was in the Navy. As a kid everyone on our block in NY was related somehow. My aunt, uncle and cousins lived right behind our home. Growing up was a great experience for all of us. My uncle would tell us stories about the war in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. We were mesmerized by his stories. I remember he was on a battleship and loaded ammunition into the guns. He hated the Japanese with a vengeance. I wonder how he would react to today’s world. I don’t think he would understand. He was a very tuff and stubborn man. It was his way or the highway. He scared all of us kids and most of our parents also. Now that I’m getting to be an old man myself and a lot of my friends have passed on I’m beginning to look forward to seeing my Dad and Uncle again when it’s my time. I know that might sound a little strange but if you are under 40 just remember this when you’re in your 70’s . I always watched Walter Cronkite on channel 2 in NYC and still compare newscasters of today with Walter. The mainstream media of today should be ashamed to call themselves News Reporters. Walter is definitely pissed off. All I can say now is enjoy your life be a good man or woman teach your children what they need to survive and how to be happy and remember we will see each other again.
Walter really helped lower morale in the 60s/70s with the Vietnam war. He insinuated that we had lost the war with his personal opinions that weren’t warranted or needed. Lost or not his job was to report the news not express personal opinion!
Are you talking about his obvescation of th Tet Offensive?
I went onto The Texas in 2012 and again in 2016, it was like stepping back in time. Great to see that kind of History, really looking forward to going back and see her after he dry docking is complete.
I know. To me, it's just as an open feeling to be there as it is in Vicksburg. To think of the men who had fought the battle, and died. Exact same thing: You can hear the soldier's final cries for help. To see the men bleeding out. To hear anything and everything. Whether it's 1863, or 1943,same exact same thing. Why do I bring up 1863? The Civil War.
Thank you for sharing
When a youngster, my father took us to see the battleship TEXAS, they had a machine that for around 75¢ would heat up wax and pour into a mold and give you a little replica. I still have it.
😎🏆🙏🇺🇸
Cool. I remember those machines. I had a replica of the Humble building. Tallest building west of the Mississippi.
My aunt told me about those. I wish the machine was still around. I'd love to have a wax replica.
The Texas by part of her being used, sank the first Japanese ship in the Pacific. The 5 inch guns taken off in 1925 and not used on the Texas were sent to Wake Island for shore batteries. During the first attack on Wake Island the guns sank a Japanese destroyer. During the 44 refurbishment they added a dumb waiter and a steam serving line. I used to be a Docent on the Texas in the 90's.
Cool.
Did those 5 inch guns on Texas and later Wake Island survive the war or did they get scrapped? If they survived, where are they?
I lived about 70 miles from San Jacinto her old berth so I got to visit the ship several times. I have been all over Texas. Seeing her slowly decaying even after a dry docking in the late 80's was sad. Watching the Texas state government do nothing about it was maddening.
I was so happy she got to dry dock last year.
The Texas government and the Texas taxpayers have spent a total of $70M on the new drydock repairs (so $70M from 2020 to now) and in the 2010s they spent $54M to fix the engine rooms on Texas and also to pump the water out of Texas which had so many leaks. Those engine rooms repairs were crucial because the structure/frames holding the engines were never fixed/changed since the 1920s refit and they were on the verge of collapsing and they would have completely destroyed the bottom of Texas, making it impossible to save her. The engines on Texas are original from the 1910s when she was first commissioned, unlike the other 7 battleship museums who either have replicas (North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Alabama) or commandeered the engines of those 3 battleship museums because they were returned to active duty in the 1980s (4 Iowa class battleships). The engine rooms are now in such good shape and in a stable condition that they won't have to touch it for another 80 years or so.
USS Texas served in five campaigns both in the Atlantic and Pacific theater during world war II
I believe that ships as great as The Texas needs to be preserved. Thank you to all who donated for this dry dock.
Yes. And, I also saw the Grey (or Gray), whatever spelling you want to use, Ghost.
@@matthewjahnke6956 The Grey Ghost should have been preserved. But I do understand why we don’t do that more often
@@wendywhite4537 HMS Warspite should have been saved too. At least we aren't like the British. They destroyed/scrapped all their battleships and aircraft carriers. The only medium sized WWII ship that they preserved was HMS Belfast, a light cruiser. We have preserved 8 battleships and 5 aircraft carriers including the only dreadnought battleship. The other 7 battleships are fast battleships from the 1940s (different category than the old 1910s/20s dreadnoughts. Texas is the only one left that looks similar to Arizona, Oklahoma, and the battleships from Pearl Harbor.
The USS TEXAS is such a beautiful ship…I’m so glad that she is getting her much needed dry dock time🫡….loved the video, very interesting to learn more about the Texas’s career…
She is in dry dock now, being restored. Long live the Texas!
I went to see Texas in dry dock recently it’s amazing what there doing to preserve her for future generations
I've been there lots of times.
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I lived in Highlands which is across I-10 and a ferry ride away from the San Jacinto Battlegrounds. Seeing her there was always a special thing. Now that she's gone it is very sad driving by there, but I'm very happy to see her being repaired. I don't care where they put her. I will gladly go to see her. I hope she is around long after I'm gone so my grandchildren can visit her and learn her history.
It becomes a family tradition. I go there now and recall family members that were present previously but no longer. I recall where we stood and such.
My daughter and her family are Texans (we are Australian). Inlove this battleship. I have a piece of her hull as I support her restoration. Its a credit to her captain and crew she survived the Pacific campaign
data: 14 inch 45 caliber gun, means the bore is 14 inches, the Caliber in naval guns is the bore diameter multiplied to get the barrel length.
I visited the ship in dry dock in Galveston 2 months ago. I had toured the ship at the San Jacinto site twice, and standing underneath the hull was incredible. The amount of work to rivet it together and then to add the torpedo blisters in the 1920s was staggering.
When they took up her decking the last time, the historical society folk offered up 1911 grips made from the wood and sold them to the public. I got a set and they are a great piece of history.
I've toured the Mikasa. It's Age of Sail warship parentage in its design is striking. I recently learned that the hull of Texas was actually a lot sleeker when it first entered service and that it became chonky when torpedo blisters were added in the interwar years.
🇺🇸/👁️\🇷🇺
I got to see the Texas up close a few years ago when she was still in Houston. Got some great pictures, and a cool mug.
Interesting to see the several different bridge configurations prior to her 1920's refit. Or some of those pictures weren't actually Texas but her slightly different sister, USS New York.
We toured the ship several times in the 70s. It was mind blowing to walk up to the 14in turrets and imagining them firing. A grand ship, indeed.
Another great video from you. LMAO 🤣 @ your one liners, please keep up the outstanding job.
Excellent video!
Texas is special because even when you hear of her rich history, life of adventure and service to her country from a young warship who was the most powerful weapon on earth for a time to an old weathered war machine of a bygone era... you can still visit her in person and walk aboard her. The last of her kind, still alive and breathing to this day.
Visited her several years ago. So much history.
A few days ago on her 120th birthday, the USS Texas was taken out of drydock and floated to a nearby dock to finish her topside replacement of her wood deck, final painting, and the refitting of her fully restored weapons. From there, she will be floating to her final Home Port, where she will be dry docked for public viewing.
My son loves playing call of duty ww2. His favorite map to play on is the uss texas…. He was 6 at the time. I asked him if he wanted to really go see the battleship? He was like it’s still around????? I’m yeah it’s about a 20 min drive. We get some other family members and we go over there. It was the last time people could visit before she was towed away for dry dock. He loved it, thought it was the most incredible thing. I don’t think it’s going back to San Jacinto. Probably going to get a spot right there in Galveston. There is a park that has a submarine and a destroyer there. Probably put it there. Who knows… I remember when hurricane Harvey hit, there was rumours going around that the Texas floated away and was downtown 😂😂😂😂 a lot of people considered it.
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Excellent video. Peacetime service was basically training and maintaining, so "boring".
Battleship Texas was designed and construction started over 110yrs ago, before the Titanic sank in 1912... and had tripple expansion steam engines with similar basic design as Titanic.
(much different than battleship Iowa or New Jersey, which had steam turbine propulsion)
Texas is the only remaining battleship that actually looks like all the battleships in Pearl Harbor in 1941 during the attack. The 3 non-Iowa battleships that are now museum ships, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Alabama, are fast battleships and not dreadnoughts/superdreadnoughts like Texas and those 3 battleships used steam turbine engines unlike Texas.
Texas is the only remaining battleship with her original engines from when she was first built. The 4 Iowa battleships jettisoned their ancient engines in the 1980s when they were re-activated by Reagan and they even commandeered engines from Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Alabama museum ships so the 3 non-Iowa battleships' engines now are replicas while the Iowa battleships all have a mixture of new engines from the 1980s combined with cannibalized engine parts from those 3 other museum ships.
My dad would take and my sister to the San jacinto monument and we would go the battleship every year we would go more and more of ship was closed I'm really excited to see it after they get through working on it.
I know, because they'll probably have some kind of re-opening celebration. I'd go,
There is an older battleship than Mikasa a first rate line of battle ship launched in 1759 that still exists as not only a museum ship but as the flagship of the First Sea Lord and which was at Trafalgar; HMS Victory
That is not "Mikasa" that is a supposed museum ship. 80% of that "Mikasa" is replica pieces or cannibalized equipment from two South American dreadnoughts in the process of being scrapped in the 1950s. What a joke to call that "Mikasa". The real Mikasa was destroyed in a mammoth explosion back in 1905 after Tsushima when she sank in her homeport and they had to essentially rebuild her.
I was on 3 Ships and never had that Observation Tower. That would have been fun, being as I was usually in the Engine Room.
just had a uss texas t shirt arrive in the mail!
This channel is great
Great video mate
We CRAWLED all over that ship as Kids back in the early 70's.......
Great content! A hazard for new narrators is the “singsong voice cadence” which renders their otherwise great content hard to hear. This happens when the narrator is concentrating on being a narrator rather than conveying information to the listener. If the narrator uses their natural conversational style, as if they were next to the listener in a conversation rather that trying to be a “presenter” the song song goes away and the narration becomes something one wants to hear rather than something to be endured. 😁😁😁
Floating again today. God Bless Texas ❤
My girl has always been the living definition of: F about and find out....
Before World War II, Britain was preparing for war with the US, as the massive American ship building program was threatening long standing British naval policy that the Royal Navy must be more powerful than the next two navies combined. They passed down to Japan the latest British designs and technology, Japan being seen as a potential ally in the pacific in that coming war, this is why Japan was able to field modern ships in such a short time. It was only Japan's eventual alliance with Germany and its campaign to conquer Indochina and Hong Kong that scuttled (pun intended) any British-Japanese future alliance.
So Interesting...Thankyou for sharing...
Yes. Britain's campaign to arm Japan with state of the art battleships in the 1890s paid off. Japan destroyed both the Chinese Navy and Russian Navy with those British warships and they effectively did Britain's dirty work for them (take out both the Qing Dynasty and Russian Empire). We should blame Britain for the rise of Japan but for some reason we aren't supposed to talk about it.
Great video!
Did the USS Nevada also flood her torpedo blisters to get better elevation for main guns or was it just the USS Texas?
Just Texas. Although, as the BB that almost made it out of Pearl, I wouldn't have been surprised to hear she did.
Super Dreadnought actually!
10/2024…she’s looking good with her fresh paint…
Nice Job. Thank you.
Trying now to get sent back in time to maybe serve on one of these battlewagons
Great job. Any words yet on where her new home might be? Thanks for the video.
It was between Baytown, Galveston and Beaumont in the Houston area. Baytown and Beaumont have dropped out. They have the same problem as the berth in the Battleground, brackish water. A mixture of fresh water and sea water. If Galveston is the winner, I should think that she would be mored in Sea Wolf Park. As long as she doesn't leave the state she's named for! My dad was one of the many Texas school children who brought in nickles and dimes to buy her from the Navy. And I have trod her decks in my turn. She's a wonderful lady!
Galveston @ Pier 21
They really should dig out a new docking place for Texas concrete that location and permanently dry dock it there. Otherwise there will be a point where they cannot get funding to refit it again every 10-20 years...
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Not possible for a large ship. Which capital ship the same size as her has a permanent drydock? Her torpedo blisters are so huge and make her so wide that that makes it impossible. All other aircraft carriers and battleship museums are in the water. Mikasa doesn't really count because she is smaller than most WWII cruisers and only about 20% of what we see is "Mikasa" is the original Mikasa. 80% of that museum ship are replicas or recycled equipment from other non-predreadnought ships on the scrapping block. All of the superstructure on Mikasa today are replicas or salvaged parts from two South American dreadnought battleships in the 1950s even though Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship. All the "guns" on Mikasa are fiberglass fakes.
The Cavour & Dulios were not able to slog it out with the RN battleline but for any other role in the Med they were good enough. In particular they were faster than & outranged all of the RN's R class and Barham & Malaya and could choose to decline engagement against any RN ship except the KGVs & the battlecruisers.
Likewise they were capable of fighting any French ship up to the Richelieu & Jean Bart.
Hence I see them as useful units and better than the death traps that the unmodernised ships would have been. It is worth noting that after Calabria Cunningham requested more modernised QE class for the Med as he only had Warspite which could match the Italian ships for range.
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Those original wire towers were unbelievably ugly
Olympia is still out there as well.
Sooo, no ship vs ship anything with this ship. And then this gets overhauled while the UUS Enterprise, which had to hold the line alone against the Japanese Empire for (how long?) was scrapped. So sad.
That is 'very sad' about tge Enterprise...Ibthink she was tge first Nuclear Warship...🤔
Cope. Enterprise didn't fight in WWI. Texas did. That alone makes her very special and unique. She is the only surviving capital ship that fought in both WWI and WWII. Escorting merchant ships and doing patrols to make sure the Germans can't do more Jutlands in WWI is not "doing nothing" or "staying idle".
At least Texas isn't like "Mikasa" which is not the real Mikasa. All of Texas that we see is original equipment and hull from the 1910s, her 1920s refit, and 1940s refit. 80% of "Mikasa" are replica fakes or cannibalized equipment from two South American dreadnought battleships that were being scrapped in Japan in the 1950s even though Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship.
If it would have been the Texas class it would have been 3 times bigger had 20 30 inch guns just saying lol god bless Texas
I almost bet someone yelled remember the Alamo in 1914
Meh, needs more turrets
I say SAVE THE TEXAS!!!
If they were to engineer and build one of these today. It would be called the continent. Because it would sink one.
Germany declared war on the us though.
Super dreadnought?
That's how she is identified.
@@sheilatruax6172 Yes, she is the last of the super dreadnoughts.
The Dreadnought and others were 12” guns w/ Germany at 11” to carry heavier armor at same displacement. The jump to 13.5” and 14” guns created the “super” label.
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 Last dreadnought. Dreadnoughts were the extremely slow battleships built in the 1910s and 1920s before the Washington Naval Treaty put a moratorium on the construction of new battleships. The surviving 1940s battleships like North Carolina, Alabama, and Massachusetts and 4 Iowa-class battleships are fast battleships. Fast battleships were built to escort aircraft carriers while slow dreadnought battleships like Texas were designed with ancient Tsushima and Jutland battleship battles in mind.
@@nogoodnameleft Hello, perhaps in 1910, the designers of the 1940s fast attack battleships were still in their infancy. Don't forget that the U.S.S. New York & U.S.S. Texas were the ultimate in Battleships.
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