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The USS Texas moving down the Galveston ship canal on its way to dry dock for repair

Not often you see anything like this

The people who served on that ship would have grown up with a conception of war being a thing fought on horseback. Can't comprehend how much the world changed in just a few years during that period.

Spiral wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:01 pm

The people who served on that ship would have grown up with a conception of war being a thing fought on horseback. Can't comprehend how much the world changed in just a few years during that period.

Launched one month after the Titantic

Russia might try to buy that to modernise its navy.

holycustard wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:19 pm

Russia might try to buy that to modernise its navy.

Its actually in only slightly better repair than the Moskva

They have been crowd funding for years to repair her, and I think this is the final stage of the repairs when she gets to Drydock

This reminded me of a quiz question I once had. Who, for a brief period in 1989, commanded the sixth largest navy in the world. The answer, surprisingly, was Pepsi, but I’ll leave you to Google it to find out the whys and the wherefores.

Over 110 yrs old and you still wouldn't want to be on the end of a salvo from her guns.
Still looks magnificent for her age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6ySBECxmM

Longer version of Texas movement.

For battleship aficionados this is a representation of the workings of an RN 15" turret, the most common turret in the RN, employed at Jutland in 1916 and was still in service post war on our last battleship, HMS Vanguard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkpBIwygg0s