USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Texas (BB-35), off New York City, circa 1919.
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| Name: | Texas |
| Namesake: | State of Texas |
| Ordered: | 24 June 1910 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Cost: | $11,179,195 |
| Laid down: | 17 April 1911 |
| Launched: | 18 May 1912 |
| Sponsored by: | Claudia Lyon |
| Commissioned: | 12 March 1914 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 April 1948 |
| Struck: | 30 April 1948 |
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| Nickname(s): | "Mighty T" |
| Honors and awards: |
 5 × battle star
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| Status: | Museum ship at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site |
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| Class and type: | New York-class battleship |
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| Beam: | 95 ft 2.5 in (29.020 m) |
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| Range: | 7,060 nmi (13,075 km; 8,125 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 1,042 officers and men |
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| Beam: | 106 ft 0 in (32.31 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft 6 in (9.60 m) (max) |
| Installed power: | 6 × Bureau Express oil-fired boilers |
| Speed: | 19.72 kn (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 15,400 nmi (17,722 mi; 28,521 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
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| Aircraft carried: | 3 × floatplanes |
| Aviation facilities: | 1 × catapult (fitted on Turret 3) |
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| Complement: | 1810 officers and men |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × OS2U Kingfisher |
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USS Texas
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Texas, photographed in 2014 in her berth at the San Jacinto Battleground, near Houston. She is wearing Measure 21 camouflage as she did in 1945.
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| Location | 22 mi. E of Houston on TX 134 at San Jacinto Battleground, La Porte, Texas |
| Coordinates | 29°45′21″N 95°5′22″W / 29.75583°N 95.08944°WCoordinates: 29°45′21″N 95°5′22″W / 29.75583°N 95.08944°W |
| NRHP Reference # | 76002039 |
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| Added to NRHP | 8 December 1976 |
| Designated NHL | 8 December 1976 |
USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the US state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship. The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.
Soon after her commissioning, Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When the United States formally entered World War II in 1941, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic, and later shelled Axis-held beaches for the North African campaign and the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II, and is now a museum ship near Houston, Texas.
Among the world's remaining battleships, Texas is notable for being the only remaining World War I-era dreadnought battleship, though she is not the oldest surviving battleship: Mikasa, a pre-dreadnought battleship ordered in 1898 by the Imperial Japanese Navy, HMS Warrior, the world's first all-steel warship and HMS Victory, launched in 1765 (Nelson's flagship at The Battle of Trafalgar), are all older than Texas. She is also noteworthy for being one of only seven remaining ships and the only remaining capital ship to have served in both World Wars.
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