BATTLESHIP TEXAS BB35

SITE PURPOSE: Provide detailed BB35 information of ever increasing depth and breadth, using a diverse variety of images and text. For accuracy, original source documents are used such as deck logs, cruise reports, fuel tables, action reports, war diaries, drawings, newspapers. Much of the data has not been available before.

MAINTAINED BY: Charles Moore, Battleship TEXAS Volunteer, 2 November 1986.to 30 June 2007

SITE STARTED: 11 May 1999

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TO THE TEXAS VETERANS: Only part of TEXAS is in San Jacinto State Park. The rest is anywhere you reside. I hope what I have done here meets with your approval.

A symbol of America's coming of age as a world power, in the early 20^th century.

Entering at the battleship height of supremacy, she was a witness to its decline. Replaced by a new idea..

Many ship areas today are as they were in 1914.

Major changes between 1914 to Jan 1945

12,459 days from commission to decommission.

Sails over 633,000 nautical miles, 728,000 statute miles.

2,891 tons of coal, using 124,341 cubic feet

1,500,000 gals of fuel oil using 200,550 cubic feet.

16 Panama Canal crossings

4 different aviation arrangements, involving balloon, drones and 12 different airplanes

Makes 30,000 galloons of fresh water a day

Oldest item aboard - Electric powder hoist motor, Turret 1, built 4 Dec 1904

Authorized

Keel Started

Launched

Commissioned

24 June 1910

17 Apr 1911.

18 May 1912

12 Mar 1914

1914 Commissioning

all electric galleys.
last coal fired US battleship (BB).
largest engines in a US BB (TX & NY).
1st US BB built with a laundry

1918 - 3 German submarine encounters

1919 - 1st US BB to launch an airplane off a turret platform.

1925 - 1927 Modernization: $3,477,000

1927-1931 Flag ship of the US Navy.

1929 Sep - 500 Civil War Union veterans aboard

1930 -1st talking movies on a USN ship.

1939 - Radar testing.

1941 - submarine U203 incident.

1942 - 1945 only US BB to see combat in Africa, Europe and Asia.

Jan 1942 to Sept 1944 - 20 Atlantic crossings.

Dec 1988 - Feb 1990 dry dock.

World War I

06 Apr 1917
11 Nov 1918.

World War II

07 Dec 1941
02 Sep 1945

Decommission

Today

Tomorrow

21 Apr 1948

Berthed in San Jacinto State Park, Texas

THANKS TO:

Margarita Marders: Acting BB35 Curator (retired 31 May 1999), Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept for the access she provided me to BB35 archives
Barry Ward: BB35 curator then ship's manager, July 1999 to June 2006) for continued access to BB35 records.

Do you have access or connections to any of the below? If so, the ship sure could use your help.

supplies-materials such as electrical (wire, breakers etc), industrial paint-primer, metal

metal fabrication, welding shop, machine shop, sand blasting

UPDATES -	Chronology of changes for all links below
Obituary	14 Jan 2005, a chapter of TEXAS history came to an end with the death of Paul Elliott, the last BB35 veteran of World War One
Dry-Dock	TEXAS dry dock date is suspended (20 Apr 2003)
Pearl Harbor	7 Dec 2002 - Pearl Harbor Survivors (National Meeting) aboard TEXAS
BB35 model	by Derek Brown (of Denver) wins top-honor over 1,000 entries, at the 1998 IPMS meet.
Scale model	TEXAS model kits presently available
CGN-39	CGN-39 vets (TEXAS guided missile cruiser) joining up with BB35 vets

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	Calendar	Medals	Favorites	Animal Mascots	Glenn Miller	Bad hair day	Coffee
HISTORY	All 1910 - 1945	Construction Jun1910-Mar1914	Apr 1917- Jan 1918	North Sea Feb-Nov 1918	Nov-Dec 1918	Modernization Jul1925-Aug1927
	N.Africa Oct -Dec1942	Normandy Apr-Jun 1944	Cherbourg Jun-Jul 1944	S.France Jul-Sep1944	Iwo Jima Feb-Mar1945	.Okinawa Mar-May 1945	Dry-Dock 1988-1990
PHOTOS	Off ship exterior	main deck	2nd deck	People	Christmas	Panama Canal	Mascots
	Other	World War One-.Somers	King Neptune.	1931 - 1934: Moss	Color 1941	OS2U Operations	Ryndam 1915
CREW	Crew Size	Marine Navy pay	Feeding	1918 enlisted ratings	June 1944 organization	Captains	Berthing
.	Chaplain	CPOs	.	..	..	...	..
GEOGRAPHY	Maps	Movements - by date	Yearly Miles	Locations - by area	.Panama Canal Crossings	USNA Cruises
DOCUMENTS	Publication articles 1910-1948	Operation ZZ 21 Nov 1918	War Diary 1944 - 1945	WWII Action reports	Weekly newspaper 1920-1936	Christmas 1941
WEAPONS	Small Arms	Main armament	Other armament	Ammo Capacity	WWII gun fire	Magazines	Ammo Hoist
.	Fire Control	.	.	.	.	.	.
BUILDING	Cost	Chronology	Building days	Jun1910 - Mar1914
DRAWINGS	Deck plans 1910 1931 1937 1944	Compartments 1912-1916	Other		.	.	.
STRUCTURE	exterior time line	Armor 1911	Mast 1913 - 1925	paint schemes	Changes 1910 - today	Dimensions	BB35 to BB34
	loading data	hull calculations	.	.	..	.	.
SYSTEMS	Boilers	Engines	Aviation	Radar	Steering	Fresh water	Radios
	Anchor	Coaling
FUEL	coal vs oil	Capacity & storage	Speed & distance	Quantity used	.	..	..
OTHER BB35	BB35 books	BB35 links	.		.Obtain copy- veteran's USN record	.Corrections to published sources	.
US Navy	Navy summary - 1918	USN fuel usage 1906-1918		Construction time US BBs	.US battleship fuel usage	1918 Masts - cage vs tripod (HMS HOOD)	.