USS Texas 1892 & (BB-35) : A History In Pictures. A Pictorial History of America’s Most Famous Battleship
USS Texas Currently a museumship in her home state of Texas, she has become an American Icon!
Located 22 miles east of houston and still open to awe-struck crowds.
Texas fitting out after launching on 28 January 1892. The Amphitrite (BM-2) is under construction alongside.
Photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com.
Photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri.
Bow on view of the Texas at anchor ca. 1895 at an unknown location. Photo shows a good view of the secondary armament and the bow mounted torpedo tube.
Photo courtesy of The Detroit Publishing Company as # det 4a1419v & now in the archives of the Library of Congress, (LOC) # LC-D4-20331, courtesy of Mike Green.
Unknown author – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress‘s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.18030.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/texas.htm
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· · NH 74104: USS Texas (1895-1911). Ready for post-war drydocking, at the New York Navy Yard, 3 August 1898. . Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. (2016/01/17).
This work is from the Detroit Publishing Co. collection at the Library of Congress.
Edward H. Mitchell – The University of Houston Digital Library: http://digital.lib.uh.edu
US Protected Cruiser Texas
Texas developed a reputation as a jinxed or unlucky ship after several accidents early in her career; she consequently earned the nickname “Old Hoodoo”
These mishaps included problems during construction, a grounding off Newport, Rhode Island, and flooding shortly afterwards while at dock in New York City. In the last, she settled to the bottom with her gun deck awash and several crew members drowned. She also received significant damage to her hull in drydock after being raised.
She was renamed San Marcos in 1911 to allow her name to be used by USS Texas (BB-35), a new battleship. She became a target ship that same year and was sunk in shallow water in Chesapeake Bay. She was used as a gunnery target throughout World War II and was partially demolished in 1959 because her remains were considered a navigational hazard.
Construction of BB-35 began at Newport News and would cost $4.2m in 1911. Moreover, with her sister ship USS New York, Texas represented the next generation of fast dreadnoughts being developed around the world at the time. Furthermore, slow pre-dreadnoughts could not match the new ships being developed.
Battleship Texas
USS Texas (BB-35) in New York City on January 31, 1919.
From the Life Magazine Archives – Frank Scherschel Photographer
From the Life Magazine Archives – Frank Scherschel Photographer
From the Life Magazine Archives – Frank Scherschel Photographer
From the Life Magazine Archives – Frank Scherschel Photographer : USS Texas’ Float Plane
Adam Cuerden – Own work
Thank you NavSource for the wonderful images! USS Texas 1892
Battleship Photo Index, USS TEXAS, 2nd CLASS BATTLESHIP (navsource.org)
