USS TEXAS BB 35 IN DOCK 37

USS TEXAS AN AMERICAN NEW YORK CLASS BATTLESHIP 1912

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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

Identification:

Hull symbol:BB-35
Code letters:NADV
ICS November.svgICS Alpha.svgICS Delta.svgICS Victor.svg

Nickname(s): "Mighty T"
Honors and
awards: Silver-service-star-3d.png 5 × battle star
Status: Museum ship at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
General characteristics
Class and type: New York-class battleship
Displacement:

27,000 long tons (27,433 t) (standard)
28,367 long tons (28,822 t) (full load)

Length:

573 ft (175 m) (overall)
565 ft (172 m) (waterline)

Beam: 95 ft 2.5 in (29.020 m)
Draft:

28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) (mean)
29 ft 7 in (9.02 m) (max))

Installed power:

14 × Babcock & Wilcox coal-fired boilers with oil spray (8 with superheating)
28,100 shp (20,954 kW) (design)
28,737 shp (21,429 kW) (trials)

Propulsion:

2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines
2 × screws

Speed:

21 kn (39 km/h) (design)
21.05 kn (38.98 km/h) (trials)

Range: 7,060 nmi (13,075 km; 8,125 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement: 1,042 officers and men
Armament:

10 × 14 in (356 mm)/45 caliber guns
21 × 5 in (127 mm)/51 caliber guns
4 × 3-pounder 47 mm (1.85 in)/40 caliber saluting guns
2 × 1-pounder 37 mm (1.46 in) guns
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (submerged)

Armor:

Belt:
10–12 in (254–305 mm) (midships)
6 in (152 mm) (aft)
9 in (229 mm) (lower belt aft)
Bulkheads:
10 in (254 mm) and 11 in (279 mm)
Barbettes:
5–12 in (127–305 mm)
Turrets:
14 in (356 mm) (face)
4 in (102 mm) (top)
8–9 in (203–229 mm) (sides)
8 in (rear)
Decks:
1.5–3 in (38–76 mm)
Conning tower:
12 in
4 in (top)

General characteristics (1925-26 refit)
Displacement:

27,000 long tons (27,000 t) (standard) (torpedo bulges added)
32,000 long tons (33,000 t) (full load) (torpedo bulges added)

Beam: 106 ft 0 in (32.31 m)[1]
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)[1]
Endurance: 15,400 nmi (17,722 mi; 28,521 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Armament:

10 × 14 in/45 caliber guns
16 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
8 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber anti-aircraft (AA) guns
torpedo tubes removed
2 × quad 1.1 in (28 mm)/75 caliber AA guns (added 1937)

Aircraft carried: 3 × floatplanes
Aviation facilities: 1 × catapult (fitted on Turret 3)
General characteristics (1942 refit)
Armament:

10 × 14 in/45 caliber guns
6 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
10 × 3 in/50 caliber AA guns
6 × quad 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns (later increased to 40 guns (10 × 4))
44 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannon

General characteristics (1945)
Complement: 1810 officers and men[2]
Sensors and
processing systems:

2 × SG surface search radars[2]
1 × SK air search radar[2]
2 × Mk 3 fire control radar
2 × Mk 10 fire control radar

Armament:

10 × 14 in/45 caliber guns
6 × 5 in/51 caliber guns
10 × 3 in/50 caliber gun
10 × quad 40 mm Bofors AA guns
44 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannons

Armor:

Turrets:
1.75 in (44 mm) added to turret tops[3][4]

Aircraft carried: 2 × OS2U Kingfisher

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