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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 3:19 pm 
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Some personal pictures of the Texas BB-35 taken during several calls in Houston, taken from ships on which I sailed at the time.

2003: It's dawn, the light is magical.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:34 pm 
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Pascal:

Thank you for sharing the photos of Texas. Huston reminds me of Singapore in the thick humid moist haze. Air you can not only breathe but see! Very comforting.

While bombarding positions near Cherbourg she got into a duel with an 11" shore battery. She suffered one hit, the shell striking on top of the coning tower, but not penetrating. However the pilot house above was penetrated by splinters from below killing the helmsman, the only casualty. The shore batteries were often a difficult target, small compared to a ship and it's associated equipment.

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Tks Tom,

https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/materi ... /uss-texas

During Operation Neptune, USS Texas is designated as the flagship of the bombing force at Omaha Beach. On June 6, 1944 at 3 o’clock in the morning, it reached its position 11 kilometers off Pointe du Hoc.

The bombardment begins at 5:50 am: 255 360-mm shells are fired for 34 minutes at the positions of the German battery. At the same time, the 127 mm pieces opened fire on the Dog one exit in Vierville-sur-Mer. The German resistance is such that Texas is obliged to approach 2.7 kilometers from the shore only to silence the German defenses on the western outskirts of Vierville.

The day after D-Day, it sent two LCVPs filled with ammunition to the Rangers, isolated at the top of Pointe du Hoc. 35 wounded are evacuated aboard the boats (as well as prisoners) and a Ranger dies as a result of its injuries aboard Texas. During the day it opened fire on German positions at Formigny and Trévières. On June 8, it shot in the direction of Isigny, Maisy’s battery and again on Trevières.

Battleship USS Texas BB-35 In Action off Omaha Beach on D Day 1944
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After a refueling in England, the USS Texas returns off Normandy on June 11, supporting with its fires the progression of the American land forces until June 16. On the 25th, in Task Group 129.2, it bombed the German batteries defending access to the port of Cherbourg, in particular the battery Hamburg: at 12.33 pm, it was taken under German fire and hit at 13.16. A sailor is killed, ten are wounded, the material damage is light. At 1447, a shell penetrates the building but does not explode. It leaves the area at 3 pm.

In August, Texas participated in Operation Dragoon in the landing of Provence and then returned to the United States in September. In 1945, it is deployed in the Pacific and participates in the naval fire support on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

After the end of the war, the USS Texas returned one last time to the United States after many years of good and loyal services. It was officially removed from service on 18 June 1946 in Baltimore. The State of Texas decides to keep it and turns it into a floating museum after many years of work on September 8, 1990, at the San Jacinto site in Harris County near Houston… in Texas of course.
USS Texas technical sheet

Creator/User: United States of America
Denomination: BB 35 – U.S.S. Texas
Class: New York class battleship

Crew: 1,052 sailors

Armament (1944): 10x 380 mm guns, 16x 127 mm guns, 8x 76 mm guns, 40x 40 mm guns, 44x 20 mm guns, 4x 533 mm torpedo tubes

Displacement: 32,000 tons
Speed: 21 knots
Length: 175 m
Beam: 29,03 m
Draught: 8,92 m

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:11 pm 
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Hamburg battery – Stp 234

https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/d-day/ ... s/hamburg/

German batteries of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy
Unit: 3rd Battalion of the 260th Marine Artillery Regiment (3/MAA260)
Codename: Stp 234 – Hamburg battery
Artillery guns: 4x 240 mm SDKL/40
Outcome: Under American control on 28 June 1944

The Fermanville battery, nicknamed “Hamburg” by the Germans, belongs to the belt of defense protecting the city of Cherbourg (“Festung Cherbourg“) and its precious deep water port.

Construction and composition of the Hamburg battery

From the year 1943, the Germans built four Regelbaut SK casemates facing the sea on the heights, fifteen kilometers east of Cherbourg, each sheltering a 240 mm cannon with a range of 25 kilometers . These are old naval pieces used from 1890 on Austro-Hungarian cruisers. About forty other constructions, including an underground command post at the back of the site, are also carried out by the Todt organization.

To protect the site which is one of the most important of the Atlantic Wall in France, six 75 mm M36 guns, six 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and a 25 mm Pak 112 gun are installed.

The Hamburg battery during the battle of Normandy

The Allies carried out several air raids on this battery and in particular on the night of June 5 to 6, 1944, but which did not prevent it from remaining operational. When the Americans landed at Utah Beach and headed north, Oberleutnant Rudi Max Gelbhaar, commander of the battery, realized that its 240 mm guns were not very useful in the configuration of the moment.

The Hamburg battery comes into action when the Allies seek to seize the city of Cherbourg. Indeed, on June 25, 1944, a major naval force approached the coast to support the ground forces which, at the gates of the port city, designate the main objectives and notably the famous batteries of the Festung Cherbourg.

Shortly after 10 am, the Germans opened fire and an impressive duel of artillery entered their cannons and those of the Allies. Targeted by the second flotilla bombing group (including USS Arkansas and USS Texas), the Hamburg battery is masked by smoke from explosions.

However, several destroyers and cruisers are affected but do not sink: at 13h35, the USS Texas manages to put out of use one of the guns of 240 mm. The three remaining pieces then target the USS Arkansas: ships come out of the range of the batteries, camouflaged by a thick smoke curtain.

The American infantrymen continued their progression, forcing the Germans to direct their shots inland. For this purpose, the shield protecting the 240 mm gun from the north-east casemate is deliberately destroyed in order to widen the range of the fire. However, the Americans managed to seize the battery that the occupants went on the evening of June 28, 1944.


A German coastal artillery shell falls between the USS Texas (BB 35), in the background, and the USS Arkansas (BB 33), while the two battleships were engaging Battery Hamburg during the bombardment of Cherbourg, France, June 25, 1944. After supporting the landings on Omaha Beach on D-Day, the USS Texas provided gunfire support for the effort to capture the strategically important port of Cherbourg. National Archives photo
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2022 2:48 pm 
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A some distance Texas almost looks Japanese with the (nearly) pagoda like foremast. She just lacks a couple of platforms to complete the effect around the tripod. These platforms eventually led to the fire control towers as sported by most Battleships designed in the interwar period.

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hello everyone
Does anyone have a uss texas hull body lines after conversion?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:09 am 
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Hi David

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I hope that lines have antitorpedos bulge.


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Moving the Texas BB-35 in two hours now to its floating dock (5:30 AM local time). A high risk operation.

10 hours transfer time.

Having used this long and narrow channel several times, if the ship were to block it in any way, the entire port of Houston and its vast industrial area would be paralysed.

One can assume that all precautions have been taken collegially, there are too many financial implications at all levels.

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https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/b ... n-repairs/

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While in service, the USS Texas sailed through some of the globe’s most treacherous waters.

The Texas is one of only eight ships to serve in both world wars. Its crew supported American troops on D-Day and on Iwo Jima. After being decommissioned, the Texas became a floating museum, docked beside the old San Jacinto Battleground near Houston.

On Wednesday, the Texas will once again set out into open waters when a group of tugboats tows it to a dry dock in Galveston, where the ship will undergo extensive repairs on its hull as part of a long-term plan to preserve the vessel. The journey will be live-streamed starting about 3 a.m.

Bruce Bramlett, chief operating officer for the Battleship Texas Foundation, spoke to Texas Standard about moving the Texas and the ship’s future.

This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:

Texas Standard: Sounds like y’all are going to get an early start Wednesday morning. What happens starting around 5:30 a.m.?

Bruce Bramlett: Yeah, we are. You know, part of the reason is that the Houston Ship Channel is closing down for us tomorrow. And so we’re going to have a clear shot all the way to Galveston. But they would like for us to be out of the channel while it’s still daylight. So consequently, we will begin to move the ship between 5:30 and 6 a.m. tomorrow morning. Once underway, we expect she will arrive in Galveston along about 3 or 4 tomorrow afternoon.

And you are talking to us from the deck of the Texas right now, is that right?

I am. It’s a feverish pitch here; it has been now for a few weeks as we’re making sure we have everything done on our end. We actually removed the power from the ship yesterday, and then late this afternoon to early morning, we’ll remove the gangway, final disconnections on water and sewer and all that stuff. So she’ll be totally free. We really need everything disconnected and ready to go. All of the riding party – the different people that will actually be on the ship as she makes our way down – well, once we pull the gangway, they’re all on the ship. I mean, in theory, we could get them off, but nobody else will be going on, nobody else will be coming off until the ship’s in the dock.

» From Houston Public Media: Battleship Texas will soon be on the move

How perilous of a journey is this? I mean, you’re talking about repairs on the hull here.

Well, you know, it’s funny. I’ve been here 11 years, and for the first nine, everybody said, “you can’t move her, you can’t move her, you can’t move her.” And I would agree she’s not movable unless you planned it and did the proper preparations. And then if you look, you know, I think most people would slow down and go, wait a minute, this whole thing’s insured. So the insurers wouldn’t want any part of it if they weren’t convinced we could safely move it.

The towing companies, the marine surveyors, the engineers, the Coast Guard, the Houston pilots, the Galveston pilots, everybody’s all in on this. And they’re not in on it because it’s going to sink. They’re in on it because we’ve simulated it twice, and we all know and everybody’s impressed. They say “we never see anybody go to this extent.” This is going to work. It’s going to work fine.

And then obviously, the other one that always tickles me, the people go, “Hey, you’re going to sink her.” I’m like, you know they ripped the side off the Titanic and it still took it 2 hours and 45 minutes to sink. The ship is not going to be there and then be gone. If anything catastrophic happened, we’ve predetermined spots down the channel where we simply would ground her, put the divers in the water, figure out what’s going on. We’ll pump the water out and we’ll get up and get going.

Once the repairs are finished, the ship will not be returning to the San Jacinto Battleground. Where’s it off to, and why?

Yeah, a couple of things there. The first thing I would tell your listeners is the state of Texas owns a battleship Texas. They always will. They should. It’s the right place for it to be. But they made the decision when we pulled it out of San Jacinto State Park. They’re looking for a more favorable location where it’s more visible, it gets more visitors. And I love the park – I’ve been coming in and out of here, you know, most of my life; it’s beautiful. But the ship’s history doesn’t have anything to do with San Jacinto. We’re going to take our history with us. It was made thousands of miles from here, and it’ll go wherever the ship goes.

We’ve been in long-term conversations with Beaumont, Baytown and Galveston about the new home. Those negotiations continue. And so it’s really the final piece of the puzzle. You know, you do the funding. You do the “how do we move it? Where are we going to get a dock?” Even the dock is a story. It was in the Bahamas, had to be repaired. It spent eight days being towed to Galveston. But they’re doing final prep. We’re doing final prep. And we’re going to meet up tomorrow afternoon.

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Texas BB-35 transfer live, allo Houston...:

Ais:

https://www.marinetraffic.com/bg/ais/ho ... 57/zoom:17

Live:

https://youtu.be/N932ZqspCTY

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The day rises over Houston, 4 tugs are now present to pass the towing lines.

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The ship has taken off from its quay.

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Everything is going well for the BaBy, visibly for the moment at 3.5 knots without the current, she passed the Fred Hartman bridge without a hitch.

The ship has of course no AIS location (no electricity on board), but the tugs allow the tracking of her route towards Galveston.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/bg/ais/ho ... 30/zoom:15

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New live on board and aerial shots:

https://youtu.be/-_6ySBECxmM


Incredible views! :cool_1:

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Great videos:

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Arrival to Galveston of Texas, 2 live:

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That picture right there (saw it in my Fbook feed this morning) is worthy of a diorama by someone. That looks incredible.

I do not have the skill...but my goodness, what a view!

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