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A US Dreadnought - The Battleship Texas
Steve K. Started conversation Sep 7, 2006
Another interesting article, showing how "necessity" (in this case war) is truly the mother of invention.
The "Dreadnought" reference caught my attention. The Battleship Texas is moored on the Houston Ship Channel, a few miles from my home. I took a "hardhat tour" a while back, meaning a guided tour into areas not normally open to the public. Quite a ship, with the interesting description "a mobile ordnance delivery platform". I don't think the ship had a lot of ship to ship battles, but was used to pound land targets. I do know she lost only one crewman, the helmsman to a Japanese shell.
From one of the websites:
"The TEXAS is the last of the battleships, patterned after HMS Dreadnought, that participated in World War (WW) I and II. She was launched on May 18, 1912 from Newport News, Virginia. When the USS TEXAS was commissioned on March 12,1914, she was the most powerful weapon in the world ..." More here:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/battleship_texas/hist.phtml
As a PS, the newest "USS Texas", a $3 billion, 25 knot submarine with Tomahawk missiles, will be christened in Galveston Saturday. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.
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