What You Need to Know: The USS Texas (BB-35), a storied battleship that served in both World Wars, faces an uncertain future. Despite a recent $60 million overhaul, it has no permanent home. -The ...

The background shows: USS TEXAS. 04/1948 - USS Texas enters into its slip at the San Jacinto Battleground, 1948. The rudder was set in place, so Texas needs a tow no matter where she goes.

The USS Texas is the last of a WWI-era class of battleship known as "dreadnoughts." It saw action in two world wars before becoming a museum in 1948. The repairs to its hull, expected to cost $35 ...

The USS Texas has been a leaky, rusty hull that at times forced workers to pump out about 2,000 gallons of water per minute from the 110-year-old ship.

Bristling with big guns and macho combat prowess, the USS Texas is a steel embodiment of its namesake state. In World War II, the 29,500-ton dreadnought backed Allied attacks at Normandy, North ...

USS Texas (BB-35), a New York-class battleship that served in both WWI and WWII, undergoes repairs at Gulf Copper Dry Dock & Rig Repair in Galveston, Texas, Sept. 18, 2023. US Coast Guard Photo ...

USS Texas: One hundred ten years ago… In 1914, the Texas was at the New York Navy Yard, undergoing the installation of fire-control equipment, when Mexican federal troops detained an American ...

The USS Texas is shown being maneuvered into its berth at the San Jacinto Battleground in 1948. Plans to put it into dry berth 64 years later have now been shelved because of the cost.

Sixty-eight years ago Monday, the USS Texas engaged in a desperate duel with German shore batteries in the Battle of Cherbourg. Nazis lobbed five dozen shells at the Texas and missed. Then a ...

Battleship Texas launched 110 years ago and is the only surviving ship of its kind to have served in WWI and WWII. The USS Texas launched in 1912 and was in service by the time World War I came ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Texas (BB-35), a storied battleship that served in both World Wars, faces an uncertain future. Despite a recent $60 million overhaul, it has no permanent home.