Texas has to be one of my favourite battleships from the dreadnought era, it's really good to see you using your influence to raise awareness for a subject as dear to me as this.
I hope they take their time and not rush it. I hope they simply park it at Pier 21 only a few thousand yards from its drydock now. At that location she will easily be able to go into drydock every 10 years.
My dad served on that great ship. 1943 to 1945. Boarded it at New York. Served in both Atlantic and Pacific.And was on the ship during the Normandy invasion
My grandfather was on the ship from 1922 till 1926. Me and my grandson will be there when they move it and I hope to meet you and many other people that had family on the ship.
I would be interested in a video about decisions made by the Texas museum that ended up being mistakes in hindsight. Those kinds of things are usually interesting. It's also worth pointing out that Texas isn't just older than NJ, it's also been retired much much longer. NJ had the navy taking care of her 30 years ago vs Texas, 75 years ago.
A good video to suggest Texas's team made, they'd be able to give so much more detail about whats happened and why it was a bad idea. (And would look a lot less like an attack on the work of another museum, even though that would never be the intent.)
The USS New Jersey’s channel is bringing much needed awareness to USS Texas!! THE Texas’s staff must be very grateful for you to bring your celebrity to her cause. Since she is scheduled to be in dry dock for a year, please let us know if/when you can visit while she is in dry dock. I hope that all your subscribers will give a follow to the Texas’s page as well. She really does need as much support as possible.
Titanics in half is a new verb to me. Enjoy your vids and I’m happy to see spotlight put on Texas. This sorta unique troubleshooting to niche preservation issues is fascinating.
We are very lucky to have the crew we have. Travis, Tom, Hunter, and many more. Just as New Jersey is lucky to have you. I think I really like Battkeship people.
Tom Scott the Older One is amazing. I am glad he documented everything inside just in case the unthinkable happens with Texas. He made sure to take HD videos of the interior and give commentary.
This is a great video that points out most of the major issues that the ship faced over the years. One thing that bothers me is the propensity of many to blame former staff for the ship's deterioration. I think it is fair to say that starting in 1948, all of the people responsible for the ship were some of the hardest working and most dedicated people that you could find anywhere. As Ryan said, mistakes were made, but that is inevitable when they were the first to deal with issues of this type. Otherwise, they were hamstrung by lack of funding and staff that seriously limited their ability to maintain her. There is an interesting aspect about the structural repairs below the engines which was the possibility of the engines falling through the hull if the framing beneath them had not been repaired. As Ryan said, they were partially suspended using heavy threaded rods and supported from above by the protective decks during repairs. They intentionally left most of the engines' weight on the compromised hull structure to keep it from being pushed in by hydrostatic pressure. Part of the suspension system included strain gauges that measured stress on each of the rods. During repairs, they found that engine weight changed significantly on a fairly regular schedule. It was determined that the ship touched bottom during low tide and the hull structure was weak enough to defect up, push against the engines and lift up on the suspension rods.
There's also a candid style VHS tape that makes it really clear why the Iowa battleships aren't as rusty as Texas: They had full crew as recently 1990/1991 during the gulf war with their absolutely enormous crews painting every little scratch as it appeared while _at war._ Texas is much older and has been retired for much longer, so of course it'd be understandably rusty without an enoumous 1000-man crew to micromanage it. There isn't a lot of 'shame'(and this word gets used a lot) in being an older ship, this stuff just happens. 👋
I went to visit USS Texas several times when I went to college at Rice. Out of the many museum ships I've visited, Texas is really special as she shows marks of different eras of naval history. Also you could sit on the Bofors AA guns and turn them with the handwheels, or climb into the turrets and touch and feel those massive chunks of steel. Really hope the repairs goes well and we'll be able to visit her again in a better shape
When battleship Texas was parked at its current location the navy decided to fill the tanks with fresh water and the ship was held down with heavy cables
Thanks for your support for Texas and bringing her status to an even wider audience. I graduated in 1971 and this was one of our stops on our senior trip tour.
Thank you Ryan for your keen interest in our old girl. I've been enjoying your videos on the USS NEW JERSEY, a beautiful ship in her own right as are all of the IOWA class battleships still with us. Keep up the good work!!!
Eeeek, foam. I watched the guy who owned a vintage former lightship trying to dig foam out of below deck compartments that was put in there to keep the ship afloat at the end of her service, that was a HELL of a job.
I'd like to know what sort of foam they are using that can be pressure washed out. That guy with the lightship was using electric rototillers to get the foam out of his ship. Looked like a miserable job!
The foam is only temporary and is being used to exclude water in compartments prone to flooding during the ship's tow to dry dock. The key to using and removing it is that all compartments where it has been used in will be open to the outside during the process of replacing the outer hull skin. This will make it fairly easy to water blast it out.
Growing up in Houston as a child, there were a few school field trips to this magnificent relic. Hopefully the new custodians will be able to take better care of her than the State did.
This is exciting, Texas definitely needs the work! I always wanted to visit (I’m from NYC), definitely in the next few years I hope. Love the New York class so I can’t wait
The last time I did an overnight stay with a scout group on Texas one set of pumps failed. The ship took on a substantial list before they got the pump back on. I was amazed to see the amount of water that came out.
That must have been an experience. I'll never forget my overnight stay on the USS Alabama in 1991. Me and two other scouts explored a lot of that ship on that rainy night and I don't know how we didn't get lost or fall and get injured.
You are an excellent ambassador for the museum ship community. Your "we're all in this together" approach is much appreciate and I'm sure will bring dividends down the road. Assuming Drach makes it over here come Spring (COVID willing), I hope to see some great joint efforts that will further promote our Naval heritage. Having been involved in the donation side of setting up a few museum ships (the last one being the Midway), I have a particularly strong interest in seeing them maintained and their story told.
I got to tour her during a school field trip in the early to mid 90s. I loved it. Although I don’t live in Tx anymore I visited her is 2021 (closed of course). I also donate annually to her restoration fund.
I first visited the Texas back in 1965 when I came to Houston to attend University of Houston. My friends and I saw the Texas and the USS Seawolf, great time had by all. You really have to stand on the deck to get a feel for just how large this ship is (and how small the inside of the Seawolf is :) - it is a mighty ship. Of course the Texas is dwarfed by modern ships such as carriers but still in its day it was massive indeed. What we tend to forget is that men died on this ship in defense of our country and it serves as a "living" reminder of that sacrifice.
Learn from the mistakes from the past. We have the Yorktown here in Charleston harbor, and I really wonder if they will ever get her out to drydock, but I am doubting it. I have heard that she is getting thin around the water line, and they were thinking of building a piling system around the water line, like around the bases of the towers that hold up the bridge nearby. I am skeptical of that idea, but then again I also saw how much trouble the Intrepid had in New York trying to get her out of the mud up there, and I am certainly sure the famous pluff mud down here will not give her up willingly. I just hope that they can do something before she rots too badly. All we can do is hope for the best… I wish they had an excellent channel here on RUclips like yours, that would certainly help.
I've saved a lot of old cars from the crusher and really only recently have I began studying old ships. It's good to see there are so many people interested in saving THESE historical hot-rods. We have an obligation to save as much as we can for future generations to learn from. I am very thankful to all those who have donated their time/money to preserve our beautiful machine.
perhaps easier said than done, but it seems one of the most important lessons taken from Texas is to address issues as fast as one possibly can, before costs spiral out of control. good thing they can get her into dry dock soon, she deserves it.
At 9:40 when Ryan mentioned the possibility of damage caused in dry dock, all I could think of was USS Cod colliding with a Coast Guard tender last year when she was being towed out of Cleveland to dry dock.
the phrase "rust never sleeps" guided my life work in the early 80's because I was a sandblaster that learned his craft sandblasting the big ships, internaily , the bowels of ships, then I moved on to bridges,. I loved my job, it made me what I am, it is a job of the best of the best
The USS Texas is a priceless artifact. Not only is she the last of her kind left in the world, she was also the last of her kind built. She marks a turning point in battleship technology. The following Nevada class introduced a number of innovations including the all or nothing armour scheme and represent the first of the modern class that leads to USS Iowa.
Texas is a complicated topic. The current conservators are the third such group to exist. The previous group spent 80% of their time undoing four decades of neglect. The current conservators are doing sterling work--but really need to improve their communication interfaces. Which is what probably generates 80% of the questions that are asked.
I for one would be up for the idea of the government or / Navy buying one less ridiculously overpriced F-35 that they really didn't want to begin with donating 40-50 million of it to help with the Battleship Texas split the difference up with other Museum ships. That will need attention soon. The 250 million that will be spent on a single F35 would be put to much better use be preserving history. Considering the F35 will be obsolete in 10 years. I see you are a navy man what do you think of that idea?
@@robertgutheridge9672 The main issue is funding. Navy and government no longer own Texas techicnally. Many people in the Navy actually want her scrapped due to the sheer cost of the ship is ballooning. There's a reason why such old ships tend to get scrapped its cost and finding a proper reason to keep the ship around. One group actually proposed was to keep some important sections (aka cut parts off to save) and then building a land based museum for those parts. As then it would be easier to tell the history of the ship and acquire proper funds. Another issue is the ship is so large it's causing issues to fix some areas which are still being found with major damages. As is one drydock did a estimated time for a repair in drydock would be nearly 50+ million and then it'd be drydock for around upwards of 3-6 years just for the major repairs but a total repair would push 10+ years. Samething happened in Russia with the Aurora which is even older than Texas. What needs to happen is the ship either needs to end up on land, cut up and save what is important, or find a organzition with a large amount of funds to actually retrofit parts of the ship to save it (which would cost even more in the long term). I even understand the ship is hugely important but somethings even those which have massive importance for a nation with history sometimes need to be saved in different ways even if those ways seem like the worst immediate actions when in reality its the best action for long term saving of the history
@@northythefosk7501 I know that. But if our government can Barrow money and then give it to other countries most of whom don't like America. Then in my opinion our government can help to preserve our own history. Or the navy could at the least allow the use of the dry dock. But Congress won't help because helping to preserve American history doesn't buy votes.
Ewww...all those options pf yours are horrible. No one will ever go to a USS Texas "land museum" after 98% of her is scrapped including those precious original 1913 engines and boilers and evaporator for freshwater. Thankfully people like you are not in charge of any powerful group that can snap their fingers and scrap/kill Texas. They have drydocked her and they are now doing a great job restoring her. The ship isn't about just the hull and main deck and guns. That whole interior part with the priceless one of a kind artifacts are also some of the most important things to save. And nobody is ever going to cut open the deck and remove those interior equipment. The Navy in WWII with all their equipment was able to do so but not anymore.
Kind comes down to the feasibility of continued restoration. It’s a matter of time anyway you cut it, that the ship will either no long be the same ship or cost will inflate to the point where she will have to be foundered. I think a serious look into recreating the major battleships as purposeful museum pieces and preserving what can be saved from the originals should be considered by our government. It’s a part of our culture that shouldn’t be forgotten.
Dear Battleship memorial Museum. Please can you make a video about the case of a blocked rudder of a iowa class in battle Situation. What would Happen, how would the Crew react. Im asking because of bismark.
The ship will not be returning to her present location. Besides, where she is now is brackish and not salt water. While it is a good idea, the cost of constructing and maintaining a durable cofferdam would be cost prohibitive. It would likely be cheaper to follow a proper dry dock cycle of removing the ship from water and doing hull maintenance every 12-15 years. Having said that, there is no assurance that future funds will be available that would allow that kind of schedule.
I know its off topic but have you considered a VR walk through experience? You could sell it on Steam include video or audio from interviews about different places on the ship. Even reenact what its like to work at some stations. I feel it would be very profitable. you could even release it in segments like episodes. The 360 camera and the time recording and editing would pay for itself if released like a gaming experience.
That is correct, except that most of the wood deck on Texas, even when first commissioned, was pine. The wood had deteriorated to the point of being dangerous by the late 1960's and had to be removed. There was nowhere close to the funds available to replace it with wood, so concrete was used as a low cost alternative. Unfortunately, the concrete acted like a sponge and held moisture against the steel that was directly below it. The result was scores of leaks that allowed water to penetrate deep into the ship. Even though that was corrected and a new wood deck put on in 1990, they are still dealing some leaks that are hard to find and pretty extensive damage deep in the ship that it caused.
I'm sorry if this is a crazy idea but is it feasible to display museum ships in a form of permanent dry dock? There could be a structure built at waterline to represent water, painted various colors of blue and going right up to the face of the hull, but there would be no actual water involved to continue deteriorating the ship.
I’ve seen what rust can do to stuff, so I think battleship new jersey will long term be in much better shape than every other US museum battleship, since it’s the only one in fresh water. Probably short term too honestly, salt is not slow at rusting stuff.
I really hope they fix BB-35 up. I wanted to visit her next on my goal of seeing every ship museum in the country (already been to Yorktown, Laffey, North Carolina, and Alabama) and I'd like her to actually be there when I go.
I am curious what type of foam was used. Anyone living in the rust belt knows that open cell foam like great stuff actually just holds the water against the metal and makes the rust worst. Lots of people used to put that in rotted out rocker panels.
This is what I was thinking. I work in the gulf on osv’s and on a steel hull, we would apply rust bond corrosion inhibitor, primer and then paint on all bare metal surfaces. Foam alone will not seal a space and prevent corrosion. Hopefully the $35m the State of Texas is giving the foundation for dry dock, they’ll get it sorted out.
The foam is a temporary measure that is only being used to exclude water in the torpedo blisters and a few compartments inside the hull that are prone to flooding. It will be removed once in dry dock and during hull shell plating replacement. All of the spaces where it has been used will be open to the outside and water blasters will remove it. Once that has been done, the remaining metal surfaces will be cleaned and coated, then new shell plating will seal them back up.
@@tomscotttheolderone364 LOL, Not the other Tom Scott,. He would be interested in "Texas" i'm sure, you sound like you are involved with Texas. If so, maybe reach out, his viewers may give some support?
@@tomscotttheolderone364 awesome! I was hoping it wouldn’t be permanent! I’m excited to see Texas here in Galveston temporarily! I will be a nice change in scenery
God bless the American people. We are the only nation on this planet that keeps our fighting ladies for the next generation of Americans to see and learn from. Long live the USS Texas and on your younger sisters.
Hey whats up with Massachusetts? BB-59.. no one ever mentions her. You should do a video on her. Fired the first 16 inch shells of the war and supposedly the last 16s of the war as well. I remember camping on board her as a young cub scout, possibly the best thing my troop ever did!
I think it was over the summer but Ryan did a whole bit on battleship cove including the Mammy, Kennedy, et al, not sure if he did much on the Hendensee
All ships are biodegradable!!!!! If you want it to float ,work and cash must flow !! It's up to you . 5 10 15 20 $ will help Don't think it won't all is welcome
I'm sure the issue would probably be costs, but would it make sense to place these museum ships in a permanent dry dock someplace? If cost was no issue would placing these ships in dry dock be better long term?
Dry berthing is the most likely way to make the ship last another 100 years, but it proved to be far too expensive at $100 million when it was proposed and budgeted.
I feel like Ryan needs an additional title. "Hi Im Ryan Szimanski, Curator of Battleship New Jersey and National Goodwill Ambassador for all of the Museum ships"
I appreciate Ryan's thoughts to spare persons that worked on the Texas in the past... but it is simply not true that *no one* knew how to properly preserve the USS Texas in 1948 and after. The USS Constitution already was a museum. The Navy had experts in preservation working on the mothball fleet ( still does ). And foreign nations had already made metal hulled ships into museums. It was the requirement that American ships could only be given to locally arising "non profit" ( "amateur" ) organizations that has led to ships like USS Texas decaying to where we see today.
Would it be possible to dry dock Texas in a way similar to how the British have permanently dry docked Victory or is that preservation solution only possible because Victory is still commissioned? Sad that infrastructure and the trusts/grants for museums and historical sites aren’t getting more funding instead of the IRS.
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Texas has to be one of my favourite battleships from the dreadnought era, it's really good to see you using your influence to raise awareness for a subject as dear to me as this.
At the rate they are going though, it'll be years and years before it opens back up to the public.
@@BoopSnoot its gonna be open in like late 2023, early 2024
I hope they take their time and not rush it. I hope they simply park it at Pier 21 only a few thousand yards from its drydock now. At that location she will easily be able to go into drydock every 10 years.
My dad served on that great ship. 1943 to 1945. Boarded it at New York. Served in both Atlantic and Pacific.And was on the ship during the Normandy invasion
That's awesome!
So he was one of the guys that gangster leaned her to get a better shot!
My grandfather was on the ship from 1922 till 1926. Me and my grandson will be there when they move it and I hope to meet you and many other people that had family on the ship.
I would be interested in a video about decisions made by the Texas museum that ended up being mistakes in hindsight. Those kinds of things are usually interesting. It's also worth pointing out that Texas isn't just older than NJ, it's also been retired much much longer. NJ had the navy taking care of her 30 years ago vs Texas, 75 years ago.
That is what I am interested in as well. Like using concrete as a deck material! 🤦♂️
I second this, while I watch all of Ryans videos I’d be especially interested in that one.
@@thewordisgood1544 good idea, but concrete also corrodes steel.
@@T3hderk87 Concrete was used as deck on Texas. That's why it would make a great talking point in such a video.
A good video to suggest Texas's team made, they'd be able to give so much more detail about whats happened and why it was a bad idea. (And would look a lot less like an attack on the work of another museum, even though that would never be the intent.)
The USS New Jersey’s channel is bringing much needed awareness to USS Texas!! THE Texas’s staff must be very grateful for you to bring your celebrity to her cause. Since she is scheduled to be in dry dock for a year, please let us know if/when you can visit while she is in dry dock. I hope that all your subscribers will give a follow to the Texas’s page as well. She really does need as much support as possible.
It's great knowing that you and others are preserving real history.
Titanics in half is a new verb to me.
Enjoy your vids and I’m happy to see spotlight put on Texas.
This sorta unique troubleshooting to niche preservation issues is fascinating.
We are very lucky to have the crew we have. Travis, Tom, Hunter, and many more. Just as New Jersey is lucky to have you. I think I really like Battkeship people.
Tom Scott the Older One is amazing. I am glad he documented everything inside just in case the unthinkable happens with Texas. He made sure to take HD videos of the interior and give commentary.
This is a great video that points out most of the major issues that the ship faced over the years. One thing that bothers me is the propensity of many to blame former staff for the ship's deterioration. I think it is fair to say that starting in 1948, all of the people responsible for the ship were some of the hardest working and most dedicated people that you could find anywhere. As Ryan said, mistakes were made, but that is inevitable when they were the first to deal with issues of this type. Otherwise, they were hamstrung by lack of funding and staff that seriously limited their ability to maintain her.
There is an interesting aspect about the structural repairs below the engines which was the possibility of the engines falling through the hull if the framing beneath them had not been repaired. As Ryan said, they were partially suspended using heavy threaded rods and supported from above by the protective decks during repairs. They intentionally left most of the engines' weight on the compromised hull structure to keep it from being pushed in by hydrostatic pressure. Part of the suspension system included strain gauges that measured stress on each of the rods. During repairs, they found that engine weight changed significantly on a fairly regular schedule. It was determined that the ship touched bottom during low tide and the hull structure was weak enough to defect up, push against the engines and lift up on the suspension rods.
I agree. Somebody had to be the pioneer. One important thing, she's108 years old and still with us so somebody was doing something right.
There's also a candid style VHS tape that makes it really clear why the Iowa battleships aren't as rusty as Texas: They had full crew as recently 1990/1991 during the gulf war with their absolutely enormous crews painting every little scratch as it appeared while _at war._
Texas is much older and has been retired for much longer, so of course it'd be understandably rusty without an enoumous 1000-man crew to micromanage it. There isn't a lot of 'shame'(and this word gets used a lot) in being an older ship, this stuff just happens. 👋
they are about 30-40yrs. younger
I went to visit USS Texas several times when I went to college at Rice. Out of the many museum ships I've visited, Texas is really special as she shows marks of different eras of naval history. Also you could sit on the Bofors AA guns and turn them with the handwheels, or climb into the turrets and touch and feel those massive chunks of steel. Really hope the repairs goes well and we'll be able to visit her again in a better shape
When battleship Texas was parked at its current location the navy decided to fill the tanks with fresh water and the ship was held down with heavy cables
Ryan is a great spokesman for America's museum ships.
Thanks for your support for Texas and bringing her status to an even wider audience. I graduated in 1971 and this was one of our stops on our senior trip tour.
Thank you Ryan for your keen interest in our old girl. I've been enjoying your videos on the USS NEW JERSEY, a beautiful ship in her own right as are all of the IOWA class battleships still with us.
Keep up the good work!!!
One of my favorite videos so far. Ryan was so relaxed it felt like we were just having a conversation.
Eeeek, foam. I watched the guy who owned a vintage former lightship trying to dig foam out of below deck compartments that was put in there to keep the ship afloat at the end of her service, that was a HELL of a job.
I saw that video too. :)
It's polyurethane based, so think : Gorilla Glue and that will give you an idea of how strong that stuff sticks to everything.
I'd like to know what sort of foam they are using that can be pressure washed out.
That guy with the lightship was using electric rototillers to get the foam out of his ship. Looked like a miserable job!
The foam is only temporary and is being used to exclude water in compartments prone to flooding during the ship's tow to dry dock. The key to using and removing it is that all compartments where it has been used in will be open to the outside during the process of replacing the outer hull skin. This will make it fairly easy to water blast it out.
@@wanderer397 I'm fairly certain the goal is NOT to set the ship on fire.
It’s nice to see museums work together and promote each other. Hats off to all of you
Growing up in Houston as a child, there were a few school field trips to this magnificent relic. Hopefully the new custodians will be able to take better care of her than the State did.
Ryan, it does my heart good to see you promote the Texas. Any chance you coming down for the dry dock move?
We hope to see her when she's dry, no promises on being there for the move
Doooooo it
@@BattleshipNewJersey A guy can hope right? I want to have my camera there for the move.
Thank uou Ryan for coming to see our ship.
Thanks for bringing attention to this and what it takes to preserve these majestic ships.
This is exciting, Texas definitely needs the work! I always wanted to visit (I’m from NYC), definitely in the next few years I hope. Love the New York class so I can’t wait
The last time I did an overnight stay with a scout group on Texas one set of pumps failed. The ship took on a substantial list before they got the pump back on. I was amazed to see the amount of water that came out.
That must have been an experience. I'll never forget my overnight stay on the USS Alabama in 1991. Me and two other scouts explored a lot of that ship on that rainy night and I don't know how we didn't get lost or fall and get injured.
Great report as usual. I saw a show on Texas a few years ago and I thought that was the of her. Wonderful work by those folks.
You are an excellent ambassador for the museum ship community. Your "we're all in this together" approach is much appreciate and I'm sure will bring dividends down the road. Assuming Drach makes it over here come Spring (COVID willing), I hope to see some great joint efforts that will further promote our Naval heritage. Having been involved in the donation side of setting up a few museum ships (the last one being the Midway), I have a particularly strong interest in seeing them maintained and their story told.
Very happy you are doing your part. I wish I had the position you are in. Great work Ryan.
thanks so much for your insite on texas i didn,t even know it was a museum will be watching more much appreciated!
I got to tour her during a school field trip in the early to mid 90s. I loved it. Although I don’t live in Tx anymore I visited her is 2021 (closed of course). I also donate annually to her restoration fund.
Thanks a bunch for the links. I am a retired Canadian sailor that has a huge passion for these wonderful ladies.
Drydocking is like dental work. It costs more the longer you put it off.
Favorite ship of all time. Thanks for all y'all do.
I used spray foam to seal up my rusty '91 Prism in '00. It held the rear end on for 4 years.
I first visited the Texas back in 1965 when I came to Houston to attend University of Houston. My friends and I saw the Texas and the USS Seawolf, great time had by all. You really have to stand on the deck to get a feel for just how large this ship is (and how small the inside of the Seawolf is :) - it is a mighty ship. Of course the Texas is dwarfed by modern ships such as carriers but still in its day it was massive indeed. What we tend to forget is that men died on this ship in defense of our country and it serves as a "living" reminder of that sacrifice.
The USS Oregon was a museum ship decades before this, but it was scrapped in WWII
From Canada, it is always a pleasure to visit New Jeraisy's posts.
Learn from the mistakes from the past. We have the Yorktown here in Charleston harbor, and I really wonder if they will ever get her out to drydock, but I am doubting it. I have heard that she is getting thin around the water line, and they were thinking of building a piling system around the water line, like around the bases of the towers that hold up the bridge nearby.
I am skeptical of that idea, but then again I also saw how much trouble the Intrepid had in New York trying to get her out of the mud up there, and I am certainly sure the famous pluff mud down here will not give her up willingly. I just hope that they can do something before she rots too badly.
All we can do is hope for the best… I wish they had an excellent channel here on RUclips like yours, that would certainly help.
Great Britain was small enough to allow radical approaches. Who know's what the future holds.
The Texas is great! I hope they can keep her around for many more years to come.
I've saved a lot of old cars from the crusher and really only recently have I began studying old ships. It's good to see there are so many people interested in saving THESE historical hot-rods. We have an obligation to save as much as we can for future generations to learn from. I am very thankful to all those who have donated their time/money to preserve our beautiful machine.
It's good to see you drawing off attention from the USS Texas. And the best world war II movie ever was Torah Torah Torah!
Texas is such a beautiful ship, I can't wait to see it back open.
perhaps easier said than done, but it seems one of the most important lessons taken from Texas is to address issues as fast as one possibly can, before costs spiral out of control. good thing they can get her into dry dock soon, she deserves it.
Dont mean to nage any but ppl see yall as the NEWS channel for the fleet of historic ships not just one ship. Its a great honor
At 9:40 when Ryan mentioned the possibility of damage caused in dry dock, all I could think of was USS Cod colliding with a Coast Guard tender last year when she was being towed out of Cleveland to dry dock.
The Texas ist one of my favorite Ships. I Like your videos. Go on, I like to see more! Greetings drin Germany....
the phrase "rust never sleeps" guided my life work in the early 80's because I was a sandblaster that learned his craft sandblasting the big ships, internaily , the bowels of ships, then I moved on to bridges,. I loved my job, it made me what I am, it is a job of the best of the best
This is the video I have been waiting to watch. Lots of mistakes made when you are the first to do something big!
The USS Texas is a priceless artifact. Not only is she the last of her kind left in the world, she was also the last of her kind built. She marks a turning point in battleship technology. The following Nevada class introduced a number of innovations including the all or nothing armour scheme and represent the first of the modern class that leads to USS Iowa.
Texas is a complicated topic. The current conservators are the third such group to exist. The previous group spent 80% of their time undoing four decades of neglect. The current conservators are doing sterling work--but really need to improve their communication interfaces. Which is what probably generates 80% of the questions that are asked.
I for one would be up for the idea of the government or / Navy buying one less ridiculously overpriced F-35 that they really didn't want to begin with donating 40-50 million of it to help with the Battleship Texas split the difference up with other Museum ships. That will need attention soon.
The 250 million that will be spent on a single F35 would be put to much better use be preserving history.
Considering the F35 will be obsolete in 10 years.
I see you are a navy man what do you think of that idea?
Yeah, months of silence on updates
@@robertgutheridge9672 The main issue is funding. Navy and government no longer own Texas techicnally. Many people in the Navy actually want her scrapped due to the sheer cost of the ship is ballooning. There's a reason why such old ships tend to get scrapped its cost and finding a proper reason to keep the ship around. One group actually proposed was to keep some important sections (aka cut parts off to save) and then building a land based museum for those parts. As then it would be easier to tell the history of the ship and acquire proper funds. Another issue is the ship is so large it's causing issues to fix some areas which are still being found with major damages. As is one drydock did a estimated time for a repair in drydock would be nearly 50+ million and then it'd be drydock for around upwards of 3-6 years just for the major repairs but a total repair would push 10+ years. Samething happened in Russia with the Aurora which is even older than Texas. What needs to happen is the ship either needs to end up on land, cut up and save what is important, or find a organzition with a large amount of funds to actually retrofit parts of the ship to save it (which would cost even more in the long term). I even understand the ship is hugely important but somethings even those which have massive importance for a nation with history sometimes need to be saved in different ways even if those ways seem like the worst immediate actions when in reality its the best action for long term saving of the history
@@northythefosk7501 I know that.
But if our government can Barrow money and then give it to other countries most of whom don't like America.
Then in my opinion our government can help to preserve our own history. Or the navy could at the least allow the use of the dry dock. But Congress won't help because helping to preserve American history doesn't buy votes.
Ewww...all those options pf yours are horrible. No one will ever go to a USS Texas "land museum" after 98% of her is scrapped including those precious original 1913 engines and boilers and evaporator for freshwater. Thankfully people like you are not in charge of any powerful group that can snap their fingers and scrap/kill Texas.
They have drydocked her and they are now doing a great job restoring her. The ship isn't about just the hull and main deck and guns. That whole interior part with the priceless one of a kind artifacts are also some of the most important things to save. And nobody is ever going to cut open the deck and remove those interior equipment. The Navy in WWII with all their equipment was able to do so but not anymore.
Lol. I like the casual burn of the Pacific Fleet.
Great discussion.
Rebuilding anything big takes time and lots of money; should be worth it.
Kind comes down to the feasibility of continued restoration. It’s a matter of time anyway you cut it, that the ship will either no long be the same ship or cost will inflate to the point where she will have to be foundered. I think a serious look into recreating the major battleships as purposeful museum pieces and preserving what can be saved from the originals should be considered by our government. It’s a part of our culture that shouldn’t be forgotten.
Thanks!
Dear Battleship memorial Museum. Please can you make a video about the case of a blocked rudder of a iowa class in battle Situation. What would Happen, how would the Crew react.
Im asking because of bismark.
Tom Scott, The Older One has some great videos on the Texas.
It's amazing to consider that the USS Texas was launched in time as close to the USS Constitution as it is to us today.
ypu'll love the day u have 1 Ryan, truly
Let's go TEXAS
Great video from the battleship.
Can the slip be cofferdamed and fresh water pumped in when it comes back? Seems no salt in the water would help a lot.
The ship will not be returning to her present location. Besides, where she is now is brackish and not salt water. While it is a good idea, the cost of constructing and maintaining a durable cofferdam would be cost prohibitive. It would likely be cheaper to follow a proper dry dock cycle of removing the ship from water and doing hull maintenance every 12-15 years. Having said that, there is no assurance that future funds will be available that would allow that kind of schedule.
Keep up the amazing work!
The Navy had it easy. They had hundreds of young gobs on the ship to scrape and paint every day.
Thank you!!!!!!!
I know its off topic but have you considered a VR walk through experience? You could sell it on Steam include video or audio from interviews about different places on the ship. Even reenact what its like to work at some stations. I feel it would be very profitable. you could even release it in segments like episodes. The 360 camera and the time recording and editing would pay for itself if released like a gaming experience.
Seems like permanently dry docking a museum ship would be the way to go and the cheapest long term solution.
Just a comment for the CC-2 hat. Neat hat.
Ryan, where did you get your cap? I’d love one of those!!
At one time the teal decking on the Texas was removed and replace with cement or concrete.
Same on the Olympia
Texas never had a teak deck, except in certain spots. It has always been pine.
That is correct, except that most of the wood deck on Texas, even when first commissioned, was pine. The wood had deteriorated to the point of being dangerous by the late 1960's and had to be removed. There was nowhere close to the funds available to replace it with wood, so concrete was used as a low cost alternative. Unfortunately, the concrete acted like a sponge and held moisture against the steel that was directly below it. The result was scores of leaks that allowed water to penetrate deep into the ship. Even though that was corrected and a new wood deck put on in 1990, they are still dealing some leaks that are hard to find and pretty extensive damage deep in the ship that it caused.
Beautiful
I'm sorry if this is a crazy idea but is it feasible to display museum ships in a form of permanent dry dock? There could be a structure built at waterline to represent water, painted various colors of blue and going right up to the face of the hull, but there would be no actual water involved to continue deteriorating the ship.
I’ve seen what rust can do to stuff, so I think battleship new jersey will long term be in much better shape than every other US museum battleship, since it’s the only one in fresh water. Probably short term too honestly, salt is not slow at rusting stuff.
Hi, Ryan. How did you rate the video of walking round the Texas in dry dock?
Everybody thought the paint on the bottom was shot. But when they put it in dry dock in August they found the bottom paint in pretty good condition.
I really hope they fix BB-35 up. I wanted to visit her next on my goal of seeing every ship museum in the country (already been to Yorktown, Laffey, North Carolina, and Alabama) and I'd like her to actually be there when I go.
Losing USS Texas would be a national disgrace.
Just as much as the governments carelessness for preserving naval history. (Kitty hawk)
As a native Texan I am bestowing upon you a Texan status. Congratulations
I am curious what type of foam was used. Anyone living in the rust belt knows that open cell foam like great stuff actually just holds the water against the metal and makes the rust worst. Lots of people used to put that in rotted out rocker panels.
Closed cell
This is what I was thinking. I work in the gulf on osv’s and on a steel hull, we would apply rust bond corrosion inhibitor, primer and then paint on all bare metal surfaces. Foam alone will not seal a space and prevent corrosion. Hopefully the $35m the State of Texas is giving the foundation for dry dock, they’ll get it sorted out.
The foam is a temporary measure that is only being used to exclude water in the torpedo blisters and a few compartments inside the hull that are prone to flooding. It will be removed once in dry dock and during hull shell plating replacement. All of the spaces where it has been used will be open to the outside and water blasters will remove it. Once that has been done, the remaining metal surfaces will be cleaned and coated, then new shell plating will seal them back up.
@@tomscotttheolderone364 LOL, Not the other Tom Scott,. He would be interested in "Texas" i'm sure, you sound like you are involved with Texas. If so, maybe reach out, his viewers may give some support?
@@tomscotttheolderone364 awesome! I was hoping it wouldn’t be permanent! I’m excited to see Texas here in Galveston temporarily! I will be a nice change in scenery
God bless the American people. We are the only nation on this planet that keeps our fighting ladies for the next generation of Americans to see and learn from. Long live the USS Texas and on your younger sisters.
Hey whats up with Massachusetts? BB-59.. no one ever mentions her. You should do a video on her. Fired the first 16 inch shells of the war and supposedly the last 16s of the war as well. I remember camping on board her as a young cub scout, possibly the best thing my troop ever did!
I think it was over the summer but Ryan did a whole bit on battleship cove including the Mammy, Kennedy, et al, not sure if he did much on the Hendensee
"You just made an enemy of the pacific fleet for life"
"Boy, that sounds slightly less risky than sailing with you"
Being the ONLY dread/super dread left is scary. The true era of the battleship with 1 survivor.
All ships are biodegradable!!!!! If you want it to float ,work and cash must flow !! It's up to you . 5 10 15 20 $ will help
Don't think it won't all is welcome
They also have worked on the 6" guns
You mean the 5"51 guns? Texas doesn't and never has had 6" guns.
@@kevinhaywood1268 yes, I miss spoke
What about spotdocking or partition docking or casement docking on a regular basis?
I'm sure the issue would probably be costs, but would it make sense to place these museum ships in a permanent dry dock someplace? If cost was no issue would placing these ships in dry dock be better long term?
Dry berthing is the most likely way to make the ship last another 100 years, but it proved to be far too expensive at $100 million when it was proposed and budgeted.
In the case of the repair of Texas in drydock.
Will they need to make repairs using pre war steel?
Woukd you comment on the state of the Yorktown, please?
I feel like Ryan needs an additional title. "Hi Im Ryan Szimanski, Curator of Battleship New Jersey and National Goodwill Ambassador for all of the Museum ships"
Say it! COME ON TEXAS!
I appreciate Ryan's thoughts to spare persons that worked on the Texas in the past... but it is simply not true that *no one* knew how to properly preserve the USS Texas in 1948 and after. The USS Constitution already was a museum. The Navy had experts in preservation working on the mothball fleet ( still does ). And foreign nations had already made metal hulled ships into museums. It was the requirement that American ships could only be given to locally arising "non profit" ( "amateur" ) organizations that has led to ships like USS Texas decaying to where we see today.
“One of Pacific fleets destroyers rams her like they’re like to do…” that’s a burn to the navy if i ever heard one! 😂
WOW 2000 gallons a minute ! that's crazy !
It’s going to be put in a floating dry dock and towed to Galveston TX , to be put into a dry dock there to start repairs
Would it be possible to dry dock Texas in a way similar to how the British have permanently dry docked Victory or is that preservation solution only possible because Victory is still commissioned? Sad that infrastructure and the trusts/grants for museums and historical sites aren’t getting more funding instead of the IRS.
were they not replacing their sacrificial anodes often enough?
That's an interesting hat Ryan is wearing in this video. Where does one get ballcaps for ships that were never built?
You can have caps made that say anything you want them to.
I think it’s cool, considering Ryan’s first gig was working aboard USS Constellation, in Baltimore.
*sees thumbnail*
“Rust never sleeps”
*me from the midwest*
“First time?”
Hey, hey, my, my ... rock 'n' roll will never die ... (Sorry, couldn't resist. ):D)
I’m a simple man. I see USS Texas, I punch like
Would raising the ship above water or enclose the canal the ship is in, and replace the salt water with fresh water?