BATTLESHIP TEXAS BB35  FRESH WATER 

note:  10gals was available per person, per day, according to the 9 Sep 1927 issue of the weekly BB35 newspaper, "The TEXAS Toreador".

Storage Capacity:  268,847 gallons or 35,944 cubic feet stored below main deck (hold and inner bottom).

• Hold:  43,062
• Inner bottom:  225,785

Reserve Feed:  105,469 Emergency Reserve Feed:  120,316

The above figures are from a TEXAS "Unit and Description" form.  The document is undated but notations in various pages and equipment listed places the date after 1931 and before 1942.

Evaporator Capacity

• 1914 - 1925: quantity unknown
• 1926 - 1948:  

Primary:  24,000 gal in 24 hours (per TEXAS "Unit and Description" form, but the 9 Sep 1927 "The TEXAS Toreador", lists 30,000 gal per 24 hour period.  From 1914 to 1925, the Lucky Bag and Post Office were located here). Emergency:  12,000 gal in 24 hours (The capacity is listed in the title of several drawings of the emergency evaporator system.  The compartment was a coal bunker until the 1925-1926 modernization).