USS Texas (BB-35)
Service
- as Texas2,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS Texas
- Pennant / hull number
- BB-35
- Namesake
- State of Texas
- Builder
- Newport News Shipbuilding
- Fate
- Museum ship
- Status
- Preserved
Specifications — As built
- Displacement, standard
- 27,000 long tons (27,433 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 28,367 long tons (28,822 t)
- Length
- 174.65 m (573 ft) OA
- Beam
- 28.96 m (95 ft)
- Draught
- 8.53 m (28 ft)
- Speed
- 21 knots (38.9 km/h, 24.2 mph)
- Range
- 7,060 nmi (13,075 km)
- Complement
- 1,042
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
The second Texas (Battleship No. 35) was laid down on 17 April 1911 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 18 May 1912; sponsored by Miss Claudia Lyon; and commissioned on 12 March 1914, Capt. Albert W. Grant in command.
On 24 March 1912, Texas departed the Norfolk Navy Yard and, after a stop at Hampton Roads, set a course for New York. She made an overnight stop at Tompkinsville, N.Y., on the night of the 26th and 27th and entered the New York Navy Yard on the latter day. She spent the next three weeks there undergoing the installation of the fire control equipment.
During her stay in New York, President Woodrow Wilson ordered a number of ships of the Atlantic Fleet to Mexican waters in response to tension created when an overzealous detail of Mexican Federal troops detained a U.S. boat crew at Tampico. The problem was quickly resolved locally, but Rear Adm. Henry T. Mayo sought further redress by demanding an official disavowal of the act by the Huerta regime and a 21-gun salute to the U.S. flag.
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From the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, compiled by the Naval History and Heritage Command (Texas II (Battleship No. 35)). A work of the United States Government, in the public domain.
Armament and machinery
This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.
As built
- Propulsion
- 2 × triple-expansion steam engines
- 2 × screw propellers
- Power
- 14 × Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers
- 28100 shp (As-built)
- 6 x Bureau Express oil-fired boilers (1925)
- Armament
- 5x2 × 14 in/45 caliber guns
- 21 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
- 4 × 3-pounder 47 mm/40 caliber saluting guns
- 2 × 1-pounder 37 mm guns
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes (submerged)
- Armour
- Belt: 6 - 12 in
- Bulkheads: 10 to 11 in
- Barbettes: 5 - 12 in
- Turrets: 14 in (face)
- Decks: 1.5 - 3 in
- Conning tower: 12 in
1945
- Complement
- 1,810
- Main gun
- 356 mm (14 in)
- Armament
- 5x2 × 14 in/45 caliber guns
- 6 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
- 10 × 3 in/50 caliber gun
- 10 × quad 40 mm Bofors AA guns
- 44 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- Armour
- Turrets: 1.75 in added to turret tops
- Aircraft
- 2 × OS2U Kingfisher
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Texas (BB-35) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Service history reproduced verbatim from Texas II (Battleship No. 35) , Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships — public domain, a work of the United States Government.
- Photograph: Unknown author — This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy , taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , it is in the public domain in the United States — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons