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USS Texas (BB-35), the only surviving dreadnought battleship. Launched 110 years ago
Despite being the last of her kind, Texas was also a ship of firsts: The first American warship to launch an aircraft, first to be armed with anti-aircraft guns, first to be equipped with a fire control system, and one of the first to be equipped with radar. She fired the first American shots of WWI, was the first American battleship to be permanently preserved as a museum ship, and the first to be declared a National Historic Landmark.
She's the only surviving capital ship to have served in both World Wars, and is most famous for her service during the D-Day landings in WWII, where she counter-sniped German sharpshooters and flooded one of her own torpedo blisters in order to make the ship list and give the guns enough elevation to hit their targets.
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Its normally at San Jacinto Battleground (where Sam Houston beat Santa Anna) Been on it... Its out for restoration now.....
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needs more red lead paint on the hull, lookin pretty rusty
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