If people who made this series were still alive to see the garbage news today, they'd be beside themselves... Great documentary on this legendary ship.
My great uncle joined the Navy in 1916. He was assigned to the receiving ship USS Richmond. To give you an idea of how old the Richmond was, she was with Admiral Farragut at Vicksburg in 1862. When my uncle was aboard the ship it had been demasted and shedded over, but her steam power plant was still operational. He learned steam on this ship. After training he was assigned to the battleship BB-11 the USS Missouri as a stoker. Her mission was to train gun crews for the newer battleships. The Navy cut him loose in 1922.
Another incredible historical moment that USS Texas was involved in was the 1st Marine Division was born on her deck! The proclamation declaring the creation of the 1st Marine Division was read on the actual USS Texas! The 1st Marine Division veterans honor and respect Texas for that connection.
This grand ole lady provided aide to my great grandfather not once but twice. Firstly on D Day and secondly on Iwo Jima. To us shes part of oyr family. Twice ive walked her hallowed decks and could feel the ages past still there. She deserves all the help shes getting. May she live for another 110 years keep fighting Texas. Thank you for protecting all the boys fighting but most of all thank you for taking care of my great grandfather. For this my family is eternally grateful.
They left out two of the most important things involving The Texas during the Normandy invasion. First, because she had an up-to-date operating room on-board, many soldiers lives were saved because The Texas was so close to the battlefront, the wounded could be taken directly to her for medical procedures. Also, when the Germans began parking tanks and other vehicles just outside of the range of her guns, someone figured out that if they flooded one of her torpedo blisters, this caused a 3-degree list, which enabled the guns to fire much further in-land, causing many more German casualties, and helped speed up the break-out from the beachheads.
My grandpa Clark was a courier on this ship during world war two,,, i grew up listening him tell stories and showing me his awesome photo album because he knew the ships photographer,,,
Contemporary during WW1, in WW2 just another standard BB, obsolete too slow for fast TF:s, but still useful in shore bombardment. Respect for conserving the only WW1 dreadnought left in the world 💪
I agree. Texas is the last of her kind, and should be preserved. She was cutting edge (for the USN, at least) when she was launched. She was long in the tooth by WW2. But I've heard historians (including non-U.S. historians) express interest and admiration for what she did in WW2. She was obsolete … but right place, right time (and well led) counts for a lot.
@@karlr750 Indeed, and besided the shore bombardments it was very useful for the convoy escort duties against the merchant raiders, just like RN's R-class battleships were used.
@@karlr750 Texas was indeed a very lucky ship. The only reason she was reactivated from her duty as a training battleship (similar to the status of USS Utah at Pearl Harbor) was due to the destruction of the Battleship Fleet at Pearl Harbor. She performed incredibly well during WWII and she was the only battleship to serve at Torch, D-Day (at Omaha Beach of all places), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa!!! I am still shocked how there were so many new battleships built during WWII yet Ike and Ernest King decided to send the ancient dreadnoughts Texas and Arkansas to be the only battleship artillery support at Omaha Beach haha! The Nevada was more modern yet she did artillery support for the cakewalk known as Utah Beach. USS Texas was literally a part of D-Day, which is incredible and seems like it was against all odds that she was chosen to get that honor. Texas also was the place where the legendary 1st Marine Division was born. The proclamation of the creation of the 1st Marine Division in 1941 happened on the deck of the USS Texas! Texas was also Admiral Ernest King's flagship until he became Chief of Naval Operations in mid-1942. Texas was like the Forrest Gump of all battleships.
@@janneman7710 They are doing a wonderful job in drydock. Here is hoping all the interior rusted compartments can also be renovated over a long period of time after the emergency renovation of the torpedo blockers and hull is finished. They are also renovating, repairing, and repainting all the guns, which is just as important.
"Unopposed under crimson skies Immortalized, over time their legend will rise And their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size, as they fall And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all!" - from the song "Dreadnoughts" by Sabaton.
Look how young the history guy is the man with the bow tie. I never could understand the great state of Texas with all the oil billionaires why they didn't keep the ship repaired.
Really sad, isn't it? They want to waste money on stupid football stadiums for not just NFL teams but for high school and junior high school teams. Imagine all that money being spent instead on the Texas.
How amazing to hear the voices of the veterans who served aboard her right from the beginning. I did not know she was hit by NAZI shore batteries in 1944. Thank God Texas raised the money to save her in the years after KHOU made this documentary. I vaguely remember watching this, or part of it, when they broadcast this locally at the time. KPRC and KHOU both had Sunday afternoon shows where they visited local historical sites or places/people of interest. I think the reporter who did this was a regular doing these types of stories. I doubt they'd ever make an unabashedly patriotic documentary today. I am kind of shocked they posted this.
@@negativeindustrial She somehow and miraculously became the only battleship to serve in the amphibious landings at Torch, D-Day (at Omaha Beach no less), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa! Incredible how the catastrophic battleship losses at Pearl Harbor led to Texas and Arkansas and New York to be reactivated to combat duty.
With the Texas almost ready to rust through the steel on the bottom of the ship, they need to get it into a drydock, or otherwise preserve the ship! One way might be to put sheet pile on the sea side of the ship, and block off the water from the sea. Then fill in the area under the ship with sand, enough to support the ship totally! Then using pumps, take out the water from the sand, and get the ship to settle on the now dry sand. At that point, with the ship equally supported with the sand, they can start to dig out a 6' wide section from the sand, then remove the paint from the hull, and provide new rust proofing. then pack sand back into the voided and treated newly painted section. Continue around the ship until you have everything painted. To prevent this from becoming a problem ever again, you could install cement under the newly painted hull of the ship, and then no water will be exposed to the hull.
Would be the worse thing they could do long term. The best for her is to keep her in the water and service her hull at regular intervals to stay ahead of corrosion. Something that was recommended by Todds Shipyard in 1989 when she left and something the dims in austin refused to follow through with cause they rather spent the money on bullshit than preserving the ship. These are the same people few years ago that was demanding the foundation to tell them how much it would cost to take her into the gulf and sink her as a reef cause they were tired of spending money on her due to their neglect.
You can’t put a ship in concrete and expect it to last. Concrete is not waterproof. So moisture gets next to the steel and the lime in concrete is acidic. if it’s in concrete, you can’t get to the paint or coatings that protect it, and they go bad after time. So, the best thing for a steel ship is a fresh water berth with a galvanic protection system. Then take it out of the water every twenty years to replace the coatings. But as an old sailor told me, “On a ship what ain’t breaking is rusting. “ it’s a constant battle. She’s made it over a hundred years. Let’s hope she makes another hundred.
@@brendan747 have to remember back when she was built we didnt have laser precision so 0.02" off of spec is pretty damn amazing for 1911 if you ask me. To put that into perspective when it comes to engine building in cars we still have measurements in the 0.01"`s and rarely go to 0.001"'s. Engine im building for my daily driver I measured deck clearance to 0.0015" which is closer than any manufacturer would do considering head gaskets are still in the 0.01"s such as mine that is 0.039" which gives me 0.0405" quench which is right in the middle of ideal quench of 0.038 - 0.042". Still I am thoroughly impressed with 0.02" with in spec.
This is almost certainly from the mid-late 1980's when they were trying to raise money to save her then. There are no pylons or moorings so she was still stuck in mud. The video is lower quality, and somebody below pointed out this was her 1948 paint job. They would never make a straight historical documentary today.
It boggles my mind why the horrible ideology of pacifism was a thing in the 1920s and 1930s. The Washington Naval Treaty was one of the stupidest treaties ever made. Japan didn't abide by it while the Americans had to halt all construction of new battleships until the 1940s. Americans also had to halt all construction of new military bases in Pacific territories like Guam and Philippines while they were also banned from modernizing any existing bases. The Japanese did NOT follow any of these treaty terms!
that was Austin, the same austin that wanted to sink her as a reef a few years ago cause they thought it would be cheaper but they were upset when they found out that it would be just as much money to take her to dry dock as the port authority wouldnt allow Texas into the ship channel till her hull has been shored up.
@@Commander_35 Dont know where cause the talks never got any where as the state was shut down every time they brought up scrapping so there was never any talks about where they would put her as a artificial reef cause it was out of the question. The foundation would have let her rot in place than have her sunk because a bunch of corrupt democrats in Austin wanted to pinch pennies.
USS Texas was launched in 1912, and put into service in 1914, and served in both WW1 and WW2. So not in the 80's. The steel is a early version of what is used back in the 1940's and much weaker than what was used in modern ships. This steel was made just 35 years after they started to make steel. Check out the problems they had with cast iron rail road tracks, they would bend and could come loose, and launch the rail into the cars going over the rails. So high strength steel was first used to build a bridge across the Mississippi back in the 1880's, and then used to improve the reliability of steel rails. Also every steam train was retired if built before 1912, because the early steel was not strong enough to withstand the 100 PSI steam pressure. Yes it is true, steel has not been made for more than about 150 years, before that time, it was cast iron and some sort of other low strength iron, and not steel as we know it today.
She deserves to be where more people can see her when the repairs are finished. Houston is the answer. Except, I don't think the liberal transplants there would want or support her.
Fix her up. When all the satellites are destroyed by China we mite need her again. The navy needs to train sailer s to run her in case of an emergency.
I'm sure she's pretty offensive. Maybe straight but with her casemate placements, yea she's a little bit "that side". But I'm totally sure that she identify as a 14 inch sniper :D
Dunno about those, but it had to be misogynist because only men were allowed to serve on her. Dunno why the feminists haven't protested the USS Texas as a symbol of male patriarchy yet.
Thank you for keeping the memories going she’s a piece of our United States history glad she’s going in for repairs long overdue
If people who made this series were still alive to see the garbage news today, they'd be beside themselves... Great documentary on this legendary ship.
My great uncle joined the Navy in 1916. He was assigned to the receiving ship USS Richmond. To give you an idea of how old the Richmond was, she was with Admiral Farragut at Vicksburg in 1862. When my uncle was aboard the ship it had been demasted and shedded over, but her steam power plant was still operational. He learned steam on this ship. After training he was assigned to the battleship BB-11 the USS Missouri as a stoker. Her mission was to train gun crews for the newer battleships. The Navy cut him loose in 1922.
Great Documentary-they can’t make great programs like this any more.
Made back in the 1980s when at least a few reporters and journalists were left, and a couple still liked Texas.
Fantastic documentary, thank you.
Ray Miller did such a great job not only on documentaries like this, but on the Eyes of Texas...we miss you, Ray
Hooray for the USS Texas! Hooray! Long Live Texas!
Great presentation... and it looks like she is finally going to get the rescue she deserves.
Another incredible historical moment that USS Texas was involved in was the 1st Marine Division was born on her deck! The proclamation declaring the creation of the 1st Marine Division was read on the actual USS Texas! The 1st Marine Division veterans honor and respect Texas for that connection.
This grand ole lady provided aide to my great grandfather not once but twice. Firstly on D Day and secondly on Iwo Jima. To us shes part of oyr family. Twice ive walked her hallowed decks and could feel the ages past still there. She deserves all the help shes getting. May she live for another 110 years keep fighting Texas. Thank you for protecting all the boys fighting but most of all thank you for taking care of my great grandfather. For this my family is eternally grateful.
They left out two of the most important things involving The Texas during the Normandy invasion. First, because she had an up-to-date operating room on-board, many soldiers lives were saved because The Texas was so close to the battlefront, the wounded could be taken directly to her for medical procedures. Also, when the Germans began parking tanks and other vehicles just outside of the range of her guns, someone figured out that if they flooded one of her torpedo blisters, this caused a 3-degree list, which enabled the guns to fire much further in-land, causing many more German casualties, and helped speed up the break-out from the beachheads.
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My grandpa Clark was a courier on this ship during world war two,,, i grew up listening him tell stories and showing me his awesome photo album because he knew the ships photographer,,,
Contemporary during WW1, in WW2 just another standard BB, obsolete too slow for fast TF:s, but still useful in shore bombardment.
Respect for conserving the only WW1 dreadnought left in the world 💪
I agree. Texas is the last of her kind, and should be preserved.
She was cutting edge (for the USN, at least) when she was launched. She was long in the tooth by WW2. But I've heard historians (including non-U.S. historians) express interest and admiration for what she did in WW2. She was obsolete … but right place, right time (and well led) counts for a lot.
@@karlr750 Indeed, and besided the shore bombardments it was very useful for the convoy escort duties against the merchant raiders, just like RN's R-class battleships were used.
@@karlr750 Texas was indeed a very lucky ship. The only reason she was reactivated from her duty as a training battleship (similar to the status of USS Utah at Pearl Harbor) was due to the destruction of the Battleship Fleet at Pearl Harbor. She performed incredibly well during WWII and she was the only battleship to serve at Torch, D-Day (at Omaha Beach of all places), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa!!! I am still shocked how there were so many new battleships built during WWII yet Ike and Ernest King decided to send the ancient dreadnoughts Texas and Arkansas to be the only battleship artillery support at Omaha Beach haha! The Nevada was more modern yet she did artillery support for the cakewalk known as Utah Beach.
USS Texas was literally a part of D-Day, which is incredible and seems like it was against all odds that she was chosen to get that honor. Texas also was the place where the legendary 1st Marine Division was born. The proclamation of the creation of the 1st Marine Division in 1941 happened on the deck of the USS Texas! Texas was also Admiral Ernest King's flagship until he became Chief of Naval Operations in mid-1942. Texas was like the Forrest Gump of all battleships.
The days of those who served on her are coming to a close. Let’s preserve the ship to preserve the memories and the purpose of those who served.
she is currently in dry dock for maintenance for the first time in 40 years or something like that
@@janneman7710 They are doing a wonderful job in drydock. Here is hoping all the interior rusted compartments can also be renovated over a long period of time after the emergency renovation of the torpedo blockers and hull is finished. They are also renovating, repairing, and repainting all the guns, which is just as important.
"Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized, over time their legend will rise
And their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size, as they fall
And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all!"
- from the song "Dreadnoughts" by Sabaton.
I literally played that today for texas
Look how young the history guy is the man with the bow tie. I never could understand the great state of Texas with all the oil billionaires why they didn't keep the ship repaired.
Really sad, isn't it? They want to waste money on stupid football stadiums for not just NFL teams but for high school and junior high school teams. Imagine all that money being spent instead on the Texas.
And she was moved with out problem, to the Dry Dock.
The era of being at San Jacinto, where Texas won her freedom is over.
She is a symbol of American might and resolve.,.God Bless Texas!
Texas show up: HI guy!
Everyone: O God, they sent the cowboy!
How amazing to hear the voices of the veterans who served aboard her right from the beginning. I did not know she was hit by NAZI shore batteries in 1944. Thank God Texas raised the money to save her in the years after KHOU made this documentary. I vaguely remember watching this, or part of it, when they broadcast this locally at the time. KPRC and KHOU both had Sunday afternoon shows where they visited local historical sites or places/people of interest. I think the reporter who did this was a regular doing these types of stories.
I doubt they'd ever make an unabashedly patriotic documentary today. I am kind of shocked they posted this.
OT, but my daughter's school was recently visited by the commander of the USS Constitution. How cool is THAT!!
So much history
38:30 you can see the shell flying through the air. That's cool
When Texas was new, she was the baddest ship on the seven seas.
Not just that but upon her launch, the Texas was, briefly, the most destructive weapon on the planet. Briefly.
@@negativeindustrial She somehow and miraculously became the only battleship to serve in the amphibious landings at Torch, D-Day (at Omaha Beach no less), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa! Incredible how the catastrophic battleship losses at Pearl Harbor led to Texas and Arkansas and New York to be reactivated to combat duty.
With the Texas almost ready to rust through the steel on the bottom of the ship, they need to get it into a drydock, or otherwise preserve the ship! One way might be to put sheet pile on the sea side of the ship, and block off the water from the sea. Then fill in the area under the ship with sand, enough to support the ship totally! Then using pumps, take out the water from the sand, and get the ship to settle on the now dry sand.
At that point, with the ship equally supported with the sand, they can start to dig out a 6' wide section from the sand, then remove the paint from the hull, and provide new rust proofing. then pack sand back into the voided and treated newly painted section. Continue around the ship until you have everything painted.
To prevent this from becoming a problem ever again, you could install cement under the newly painted hull of the ship, and then no water will be exposed to the hull.
The USS Texas has been moved and is not in dry dock for 35 to 100 million dollars worth or repairs.
Would be the worse thing they could do long term. The best for her is to keep her in the water and service her hull at regular intervals to stay ahead of corrosion. Something that was recommended by Todds Shipyard in 1989 when she left and something the dims in austin refused to follow through with cause they rather spent the money on bullshit than preserving the ship. These are the same people few years ago that was demanding the foundation to tell them how much it would cost to take her into the gulf and sink her as a reef cause they were tired of spending money on her due to their neglect.
You can’t put a ship in concrete and expect it to last. Concrete is not waterproof. So moisture gets next to the steel and the lime in concrete is acidic. if it’s in concrete, you can’t get to the paint or coatings that protect it, and they go bad after time. So, the best thing for a steel ship is a fresh water berth with a galvanic protection system. Then take it out of the water every twenty years to replace the coatings. But as an old sailor told me, “On a ship what ain’t breaking is rusting. “ it’s a constant battle. She’s made it over a hundred years. Let’s hope she makes another hundred.
the hull bottom was shot to be .02” off of original spec. source, i was in boiler room 2 with the tech that shot the ultrasound.
@@brendan747 have to remember back when she was built we didnt have laser precision so 0.02" off of spec is pretty damn amazing for 1911 if you ask me. To put that into perspective when it comes to engine building in cars we still have measurements in the 0.01"`s and rarely go to 0.001"'s. Engine im building for my daily driver I measured deck clearance to 0.0015" which is closer than any manufacturer would do considering head gaskets are still in the 0.01"s such as mine that is 0.039" which gives me 0.0405" quench which is right in the middle of ideal quench of 0.038 - 0.042". Still I am thoroughly impressed with 0.02" with in spec.
This is almost certainly from the mid-late 1980's when they were trying to raise money to save her then. There are no pylons or moorings so she was still stuck in mud. The video is lower quality, and somebody below pointed out this was her 1948 paint job. They would never make a straight historical documentary today.
Nah, there were no transgenders onboard the Texas so they would have no interest in anything so patriotic today.
How can I help in the restoration/future of this great piece of American pride.
GOD BLESS TEXAS, and the US Navy!!
Is the gentleman with the Bow Tie known as the History Guy>
It boggles me why such huge # of vessels required by many country needed for defense.
It boggles my mind why the horrible ideology of pacifism was a thing in the 1920s and 1930s. The Washington Naval Treaty was one of the stupidest treaties ever made. Japan didn't abide by it while the Americans had to halt all construction of new battleships until the 1940s. Americans also had to halt all construction of new military bases in Pacific territories like Guam and Philippines while they were also banned from modernizing any existing bases. The Japanese did NOT follow any of these treaty terms!
11:30 see how big she was with other boats probly holding 300 crew look like speed boat
It’s taking on water and listing now. The state apparently didn’t want to spend any money to maintain it. Sad.
keep up Dude, its in dry dock right now and will be for a year.
that was Austin, the same austin that wanted to sink her as a reef a few years ago cause they thought it would be cheaper but they were upset when they found out that it would be just as much money to take her to dry dock as the port authority wouldnt allow Texas into the ship channel till her hull has been shored up.
@@Milner62 where
@@Commander_35 Dont know where cause the talks never got any where as the state was shut down every time they brought up scrapping so there was never any talks about where they would put her as a artificial reef cause it was out of the question. The foundation would have let her rot in place than have her sunk because a bunch of corrupt democrats in Austin wanted to pinch pennies.
You were so certain and yet so wrong 🤣
Very strange music accompaniment
When was the made?
Around 1988. I honestly could not find the date anywhere.
Thanks, I thought it had to be 80's.
USS Texas was launched in 1912, and put into service in 1914, and served in both WW1 and WW2. So not in the 80's.
The steel is a early version of what is used back in the 1940's and much weaker than what was used in modern ships. This steel was made just 35 years after they started to make steel. Check out the problems they had with cast iron rail road tracks, they would bend and could come loose, and launch the rail into the cars going over the rails. So high strength steel was first used to build a bridge across the Mississippi back in the 1880's, and then used to improve the reliability of steel rails. Also every steam train was retired if built before 1912, because the early steel was not strong enough to withstand the 100 PSI steam pressure.
Yes it is true, steel has not been made for more than about 150 years, before that time, it was cast iron and some sort of other low strength iron, and not steel as we know it today.
I meant when the video was made.
@@Kangenpower7 Katana blades from 400 years ago?
Should stay in San Jacinto
She deserves to be where more people can see her when the repairs are finished. Houston is the answer. Except, I don't think the liberal transplants there would want or support her.
New leaks found.
Fix her up. When all the satellites are destroyed by China we mite need her again. The navy needs to train sailer s to run her in case of an emergency.
But was that ship racist? Non-binary? LGBTQ? Does it identify as a plane?
😆
I'm sure she's pretty offensive. Maybe straight but with her casemate placements, yea she's a little bit "that side". But I'm totally sure that she identify as a 14 inch sniper :D
DAMN IT... don't give them any ideas!!!
Dunno about those, but it had to be misogynist because only men were allowed to serve on her. Dunno why the feminists haven't protested the USS Texas as a symbol of male patriarchy yet.
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