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Drawings of the compartments in the immediate area around the boilers and uptakes before and after the July 1925 - Nov 1926 modernization

Profile

Main deck

2ND deck

3rd deck

1st platform

2ND platform

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2001-03, Calendar month Mar 2001, historic BB35 events,

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Drawings - addition of numerous new drawings of 1912-1913 on turret, engine, boats, barbette. Also added links to most other drawings accessible through other pages.

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Armor page- links to armor drawings, armor text details provided Nathan Okun

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Radar page - table of overall radar systems.

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Radios page - type of and location of radio rooms, inventory of radio equipment in the "Radio Transmitter Room"

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BB35 model, by Derek Brown, of Denver, wins top-honors over 1,000 other entries at the 1998 IPMS meet

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--- Photo of Charles Lindbergh, in a TEXAS airplane, approx 9 Feb1929, Panama Canal

--- Map of fleet anchorage, Seattle, 17 July, 1923,

--- Map of fleet anchorage, Seattle, 3 Aug 1930 The battleships present reads like Battleship Row, Pearl Harbor, December 1941)

--- Photos of silver pewter model - mid 17th century Dutch ship. Given by Holland-America Ship Line and the Dutch monarchy for rescuing passengers from the RYNDAM, 26 May 1915

--- Drawing (plan view) of the Torpedo Rooms, June 1912. BB35 fired torpedoes at least as late as 18-19 September 1924, in the Southern Drill Ground (according to the Quarterly Cruise Reports)

Airplane platforms were aboard at least through the 1^st quarter of 1921. A 7 Feb 1921 photo shows a platform on turret 1 and probably on turret 4.

An OU-1 airplane was carried on the main deck, at the fantail, starting around the last quarter of 1923. (A BB35 drawing, dated Oct 1923, about OU-1 stowage, is in the BB35 archives)

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 April 2001 monthly calendar of historic BB35 events, locations etc

June

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 The 1912 joiner plans show an "Aviation Compartment", on the 3^rd deck, in the forward area. (I assume the aviation was balloon related not airplane)

The 1912 joiner plans show 3" AA guns on the superstructure behind 5-inch guns #20 and #21. 3" AA guns are also shown atop turret 3. The 3" AA guns were not installed at the time of commissioning

23 Jan 1918 - BB35 presented with the battle efficiency pennant, the gunnery trophy and the steam engineering trophy for the competition year ending 30 June 1917

27 Jan 1918 - The forward most 5" guns on 2^nd deck (#1 and #2) were removed, in the New York Navy Yard.

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Not all plans for the 1925 - 1926 modernization dry dock were implemented. In 1923, drawings were made to replace the reciprocating engines with turbines and locate the turbines in the boiler room compartments. The boilers were to be relocated outboard of the engines (history, engine room)

JULY

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14"/45cal guns data in other site areas consolidated

3in guns additional data and illustrations added

5in guns - second deck locations (1913 - 1942), update info

External features - TEXAS/NEW YORK to other US battleships and differences between TEXAS and NEW YORK

US movements - in all US states have been created. Display arrival and depart chronology

• by state (ie display all movements in Washington )
• by city with a state (ie display all movements into/out of San Francisco)

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Movements with all regions - All movements within any region can be displayed. (ie all movements in Europe, all movements within England, all movements into/out of Havana)

Finished reformatting layouts

Adding additional styling to layouts

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Major format changes still going on

Drawings page -

….complete rework of format and some content

….Plan views - comparing the similarities and differences between 1910 & 1944. Already present but major changes to layout and enlarge drawings. The drawings are AutoCAD of the July 1944 "Booklet of General Plans" and and AutoCAD of 29 September 1910 compartment and access plans.

….Full size - 1944 AutoCAD created from the 1944 "Booklet of General Plans". Large enough scale to read the smallest text. Decks are 50kb to 150kb. (if printed, the length would be 50 inches, to give you an idea of the scale used)

Dimensions - additional illustrations and major format change

Boiler change out - the illustrations for the 1925-1926 boiler change out have

been significantly improved

Armament - all of the guns from 50 caliber up to the turrets have had additional data, links to other site related data and improved images of reduced file size

MAPS - over 100 maps are on the site. The file sizes on all have been greatly reduced and the clarity improved. The major maps are on the map-page. The rest are largely accessible in the history

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OPERATION ZZ Plan - The internment of the German High Seas Fleet, 21 November 1918. File sizes reduced, text clarity improved

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Photos of main deck area: has a diagram of main deck with links at the specific locations to the specific photos

Photos of 2nd deck area: has a diagram of 2^nd deck with links at the specific locations to the specific photos.

Armament page - reformatted and additional illustrations added

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Radar - main page has additional info and illustrations. SK radar page made

Operating a 14 inch gun - has several sub-sections. Text is supplemented with photos and illustrated drawings

Hyperlink function not working

Site access blocked by ISP till 1 Oct due to transfer rate exceeding monthly allowable. Added additional 1 gig of transfer

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Creating hyperlink function fixed

20mm - detailed table and drawing illustrations of number aboard and location by time periods

5in/51cal, 50cal AA machine guns, 1.1 inch AA machine guns - additional photos and illustrated drawings

Gun location by deck/area - many areas had more then one type of gun

Coffee article (1931) - hyperlink fixed

Engine Room and Boiler Room - 1923 USN drawings to replace reciprocating engines with turbines and locate the turbines where the boilers were located. Boilers to be located outboard of turbines. Plans were never implemented

Numerous photos from the family of Hans Kittel, BB35 crewmember, 1927 - 1931 added.

14 in guns, 3 inch AA guns, aviation (Lindbergh aboard 1931, O2U-1 launching), 1^st talkies (movies w sound), holystoning main deck, crew-ship photo on home page

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CGN-39 vets joining up with the BB35 vets association

Derek Brown awarding BB35 model - included thumbnail size copy of each photo with link to the full size photo

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14inch powder bags from 1^st platform up to turret - additional illustrations

14inch shells from 1^st platform up to turret - additional illustrations

Engine Room - inclusion of Feb 1914 layout, additional engine design specs, detailed engine performance during Oct 1913 sea trials

Boiler Room - inclusion of Feb 1914 layout, additional boiler design specs, detailed boiler performance during Oct 1913 sea trials

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Photos

14in gun being towed up 5^th Ave, New York City, 15 Nov 1944

240mm shell that hit on the port side, forward, during the Battle for Cherbourg. Photo date is approx Sept 1944

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US Navy ship data - World War One: Comparison to other navies of the world, vessel summary data, battleship armaments and compliments, battleship building costs

14inch shell armor penetration table: 1944-1945

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Radios - reformatted and inclusion of illustrated radio room locations

Engines and Boilers - additional illustrations added to each

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Manually training a turret - backup if electrical component fails

Armor - reformatted with inclusion of detailed tables of data about the armor arrangement. In the future, a drawing for each table will be added to illustrate the data in each table

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Bad hair day - TEXAS "Morning Press" - 1 Feb 1942

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Calendar - new program that makes smaller file sizes and allows for full portrait printing (8.5" x 11")

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Publication articles: approx 30 articles for newspapers and magazines from 1910 - 1948

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Armor: Inclusion of drawings illustrating armor location. The conning tower overhead had 8.375 inches of STS (2 plates)during construction. (None was added during the 1925 - 1926 modernization.

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ARMAMENT - reformat of most pages with inclusion of additional illustrations and data tables. Added new category of displaying all armament arrangements by specific time periods