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The United States Congress authorized the construction of Texas, the second Navy ship to be named after that state, on 24 June 1910. [16] [17] Bids for Texas were accepted from 27 September to 1 December with the winning bid of $5,830,000—excluding the price of armor and armament—submitted by Newport News Shipbuilding.
USS Texas (BB-35) is a New York-class dreadnought battleship that was in commission from 1914 to 1948. In 1948, she was decommissioned and immediately became a museum ship near Houston. USS Texas (CGN-39) was in commission from 1977 to 1993. She was the second Virginia-class nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser. USS Texas (SSN-775) was ...
Plan view of Texas from the 1900 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. 'A' are the main guns and 'D' shows the locations of the six-inch guns. The delivery of the Brazilian battleship Riachuelo in 1883 and the acquisition of other armored warships by Brazil, Argentina, and Chile shortly afterward alarmed the United States government, as the Brazilian Navy was now the most powerful in the Western ...
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It’s the only surviving battleship that served in both world wars, having fought Nazis and the Japanese Army during World War II. But the greatest challenge in recent years for the USS Texas has ...
USS Texas (DLGN/CGN-39) was the United States Navy's second Virginia-class nuclear guided missile cruiser. She was the third ship of the Navy to be named in honor of the State of Texas . Her keel was laid down on 18 August 1973, at Newport News, Virginia , by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company .
United States President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched 16 U.S. Navy battleships of the Atlantic Fleet on a worldwide voyage of circumnavigation from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The hulls were painted white, the Navy's peacetime color scheme, and decorated with gilded scrollwork with a red, white, and blue banner on their bows .
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