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I toured the old girl quite a few years back with my late wife. I wanted to get back for her 100th but simply could not. I was shocked and saddened to hear of her latest difficulties. A veteran of two world wars and quite literally, the only one of her kind, deserves to be preserved in a berth that will not continue to eat away at her hull.
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I watched a video the other day saying that Texas has deteriorated so much that without the buoyancy of the water the ship would collapse under its own weight. Several structural members are pretty much rusted though. It would take a lot of shoring up. Besides I'm not all that crazy about dry berths anyway. Sure the Brits have done with HMS Victory and I think one other, but it looks strange to me. Ships should be on the water. USS Constitution has been in sea water for 200 years. The US Navy does the maintenance. I'm sure they'll do maintenance on Missouri and so on. I just hope the state of Texas hasn't let the battleship Texas get too far gone.
Here is an excellent example of what needs to happen to Texas... & the USS Olympia, for that matter- the last surviving ship of Roosevelt's Great White Fleet czcams.com/video/KyzKKCLJIJA/video.html
Odin029 strangely a wooden ship like Constitution is actually easier to maintain. At least over time. You can replace boards one by one as needed and rebuild whole sections with some skilled carpenters. And well preserved wood ages better than iron. The problem with Texas is the parts that are starting to rot are the main structural parts. Ones that you can’t just replace on the fly. You need to disassemble and rebuild the ship from scratch. And I don’t think Texas taxpayers are all that mean to build a new WW1 era Battleship?
I love how the tour guide says "its easy". They grew up in a different world if that is easy. Imagine being in there with the ship moving and swaying and your trying to carry 150 lbs bags around. Your smaking into other guys, the smell of sweat and gunpowder. If you were on the Texas then you were re-asighned to the Washington it would be like hitting the lottery. Wow Great vid I hope there is more to come. And thanks for the advise on playing the Texas it was very helpful.
xEL DUROx so true. Jobs were much more active. I sit all day and am begging for a stand up desk. Even construction jobs you sit in a tractor or other equipment. Its a world that we can never truly understand because we never lived it.
From what I remember, you still had to move shells around to the elevators by hand even on the Iowas, but once they were there, they were automatically taken to and loaded in the rifle.
AS A LITTLE KID ,i ALWAYS WONDER WHAT WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THOSE SEALED DOORS AND HATCHES THAT THE PUBLIC COULDN'T SEE. i AM SURE ENJOYING THE TOUR YOU ARE SHOWING US. thanks a million.
Thankfully to the worried few on the uss Texas my state ship she’s going to be 100 % overhauled on repairs the state just finished getting the cash to do so so no taxes were not increased either
Heaven forbid we raise taxes in Texas so the state can AFFORD shit. Fucking Teabaggers. Teachers have to buy their own supplies the state is so cheap but millionaires can write off their MANSION as a tax deductible.
I love this game and it’s creators. It’s amazing how they take the time to show the real history of the the ships. As we have fun blasting each other to bits I get reminded of what it really meant to be on this amazing ship. Thanks to all those who served and will serve to give us the freedom to enjoy games like these!!
I don't know if it was the same turret, but had an amazing opportunity in the early 2000's to be in one of these spaces. Bored docent fudging all the rules? Whatever. He showed a friend of mine and me a couple of the locked spaces and asked if there was anything in particular we'd like to see. I said bottom of a turret. He hemmed a bit, but we both had technical backgrounds, and after descending a few poorly lit ladders we were there. I hope she finds a home.
Incredible that she's the last dreadnought, especially with as many of them they built! The last one and all that history and she's not even dry berthed!
She is the only surviving battleship left from the very beginning of battleships in the 1880s to 1940 (North Carolina is the second oldest surviving battleship and was commissioned in 1941). Mikasa is a "museum ship" but only 40% of her is the actual original Mikasa and there are no guns on her anymore (they are fiberglass replicas). Mikasa is more of a memorial to a ruins/wreck of her than a proper museum ship. She exploded and sank long ago. Texas still survives intact miraculously and is still afloat. They are fixing her up in drydock now and I hope they take their time and don't try to rush the repair. If they do a good job she will be able to float for many decades to come without worrying about flooding.
Nice I've been in that same place on the battleship. I also got to see the map that was behind the fileing cabinet that show were the Texas has been. I got to go on a 1 on 1 tour and I'll never forget it.
What a grand old lady she is! I find it hard to believe that ship is well over a hundred years old; what an amazing piece of technology! I truly hope she can be saved and restored to her former glory.
Amazing to see the evolution of shell rooms from the New York class to the Iowa class. Still manpower intensive, but you can definitely see changes. Thanks Trevzor! I wait for these videos every week. -Tavman
Looking at the paint on the bulkheads, the coxcombing on the ladder… think of the sailors who did that. The forgotten men whose hands expressed their pride in their ship. I wonder how long it’s been since those were applied? She is a museum now, but once she was a living ship.
I love these videos, I hope you can take them all and make a documentary out of them! Also, a suggestion for future videos like these, get a wireless lapel microphone for the tour guide, so they can have their hands free to motion and point when needed. That would also provide much smoother sound as with a handheld they wind up motioning with the hand holding the microphone and you have a hard time hearing what they are saying.
i think the coolest part of that area is, that all of that paint is original... probably since the last repaint during war time. It would be awesome if they finally got around to repainting it to look brand new and restore the rooms, but also keep it how it is
You and me both bud. Born and raised in Texas and when I learned the Texas I was heart broken to hear that almost know one really cares about this poor ship. Honestly the saddest thing to me is that i have been to Houston twice and have yet to see my ship.
xXE4GLEyEXx Because it will rise people's taxes and we don't want that we have some ignorant people that really don't care about the ship the state is paying some part but yet won't pay the rest... I don't know why but that's what I know
Rise taxes? The annual military budget is well over 600 billion dollars. That isn't coming out of thin air. 0.1% of it would be enough to save the ship but they spend it on proxy wars and maintaining military occupation all over the globe instead.
Sadly, most Texans probably don’t even know of this ship’s existence. They don’t care about military history. Not that they hate it. But Texas, especially now, is more concerned with repairs then anything else
You can't even get a republican governor to pave roads or maintain bridges. Most of that is because they raid coffers to grease palms, and refuse to tax the wealthy that got them elected. And the poor can't pick up the slack, so things just get neglected.
The first time, I saw the concept of the dryberth was at a museum in New England where they have a steam boat / steam ship high and dry out of the water. The ship is made out of wood. But I believe this would be the answer for the USS Olympia a cruiser from the Spanish American War and Admiral Dewey's flagship. Also one of a kind and underfunded.
The Texas is closed to the public. The state has spent close to $85 million over the past 12 years trying to patch it. They have given $35 million to move it and be repaired out of state. The Texas will return but not to it's current location. The state requires it to be placed where there is more tourism because the number of visitors is not enough to pay for the upkeep of the ship. After visiting it this year I have to agree it's in the middle of nowhere. It could go to Corpus Christi where the Lexington is based. The reason I like this idea is you would have two great ships together, which I would think would attract more out of state visitors.
The reason I view it was in the right place for it was by independence parkway where the battle of San Jacinto happened. It was a place of our freedom and the battleship was a great addition of every Texans pride. She did need repairs, I ain't gonna lie, but they should dry dock her for she whould corrode worse in saltwater.
@@SvenTviking Very expensive, it is unfair for the Texas taxpayers to bear the upkeep of the ship. This is why it should be moved to a place where tourist dollars can help to keep it maintained. The USS Lexington carrier receives no federal, state or local tax funding. The USS Iowa battleship receives no federal, state or local tax funding. The key is to place it where people can see it while on vacation.
Just read the latest on the Texas. The survey to determine the condition of the hull was completed in November. They needed it to know the best way to transport the ship. The channel is being cleared to make it easier to dredged it for the move. They are getting ready to send out proposals for a new location, the decision should be made early in 2020. I doubt if I will be able to see it move, but hope to see it in it's new location after repairs.
I was totally unaware of the age of this ship. Other than the USS Olympia. I didnt realize there were any memorial ships with triple expansion reciprocating engines
Jerimiah O’Brien in San Francisco has a working triple expansion engine (WWII LIberty Ship museum.....engine appears in a couple of movies.....Titanic, for one..)
I wonder if there would be any interest in forming "maintenance tours" with guests having maintenance backgrounds attend to one area of the ship, performing care for a single area of the ship? It would be useful for people used to today's world of convenience and labor-saving environment to see a crew at work in such a labor intensive environment.
Iowa class could fire main guns every 30 seconds according to curator of USS New Jersey, as I recall. These rates potentially rain a tremendous number of shells on a single target in one minute if desired.
aww, when i was on Texas the damage control room was one of my fav stops. they used large plugs and hammers and had to hammer in the plugs. i had never seen anything like it, and when i look online you do not really see anything like it.
Most of the shells I have seen on US navy museum ships are inert training rounds (so while no explosive have a similar weight in ballast), those are probably just old enough they are not in the NATO standard color scheme for it, with the exceptions from training rounds being very old cannon shots that contained no explosives of any form in the projectile.
Think it's in bad shape now , you should have seen the old battle wagon before it was hauled to Todds shipyard for dry docking . Had a lot of lower plate damage repaired , unrepaired structural steel in the engine room and under the boilers was left which is probably causing some of the issues today . I'm sure more funding is in the pipeline . But I'm sure if you would like to help you can call the T.P. & W. or The Texas Historical society and see if you can donate to the restoration and Permanent Dry Docking project .
Over 600,000 pounds of steel plate if I recall correctly. I remember seeing the video after the dock was pumped out & the water just pouring out of Texas' bottom like a colander in the sink.
@@HM2SGT Yeah , I worked at Todd's back then and did some volunteer time while she was there. We all knew it was just a bandaid , without pulling the boilers and engine gear to get at the structural problems . This will have to be looked at even if permanently dry docked . Maybe with concrete footings the boilers and engine gear can be jacked up to get the repairs done as opposed to lifting the equipment out .
In Dec 1988, when the ship was pulled out the San Jacinto slip, flooding alarms were sounding before the ship was turned to head toward Galveston. The keel cleared the dry dock by only 6 inches You are correct that the Galveston overhaul was only a bandaid. It took care of the immediate issues but not the long term one. When the flooded areas were drained the salt in water was still coating unprotected steel.. By 2000 flooding was back
I don't know why someone doesn't just go in and sand blast the interior and re prime it. So easy and cheap. Room by room might take 10 years but still worth it.
Ok, Michael, again, the Texas is the ONLY Dreadnought IN EXISTENCE! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought takes you RIGHT to the Wikipedia page that defines Dreadnought and there to the lower right is a picture of the Texas and it says right there, U.S.S. Texas The only Dreadnought still in existence, was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship. The link you gave me.
Why not just move her and all ship museums to a pool/pools with fresh water or mineral oil? I am not sure, but I'm pretty sure mineral oil doesn't cause ships to rust, so moving the Texas into a pool filled would stop the rusting, most likely.
I would like to see them do a video on about If the big guns can be fired Aboard the USS Texas You don't have to fire them To see if they could be fired again Out of curiosity have experts come in To check the big guns out To see if they could be fired again in Theory
I agree, Texas is a very wealthy state and I see the paint peeling and the metal itself in a state of rust, Damn shame that they have let our Battleship get into such a sorry shape! NO EXCUSE!
Here in England we have an amazing complex in Portsmouth. The Victory is dry birthed and cared for as befits a national (and world) treasure. We have HMS Warrior. We have the salvaged Mary rose in a dedicated museum. We have HMS Belfast birthed in London. And we have a pittance of a national budget compared to America. Sadly we were in a dire financial condition after ww1* so Dreadnaught was scrapped, the same with ww2* so we couldn't save Warspite. BUT. The USA has next to no history compared with England. So surely something like Texas is a HUGE part of American history. That it's not cared for is baffling to me. If there is no budget for it. Scrap an Iowa or 2 to pay for her care? Anything to save the world's last Dreadnaught and a ship that's what, seen a quarter of the time America has been around!? America can afford a collosal military but can't care for its military history? My mind boggles. End of rant. *ironically America had most of the British treasury 😂 in both cases. But so the cost of war.
Curb weight on the focus is 2935 pounds. I remember touring Massachusetts in fall river when I was a kid. They used the VW beetle as a comparison to the 16 inch projectile.
@@timsaxer6442 ty for the info looking it up i did find some references to naval rifes in reference to naval artillery or naval guns. tho to be honest it took a bit of digging as it doesn't seem to be an often used term at least anymore.
Sure they'd be behind a lot of armor, but they're also at the deepest part of the ship. Making it incredibly hard to escape in case of sinking or capsizing.
there have been a few warships that suffered fires to the powder rooms but statistically very few of them. The worst part is if the ship starts taking on water or is burning topside you are the last person to get out.
collar microphone, removes the need to crank my volume and allows the person explaining things to be able to move their hands. Like the vids but getting annoyed with the giant handhelds and loss of audio when 90% of these people use their hands while speaking.
Thanks for the feedback! Lapel mics were not used specifically because they pick up a lot more of the ambient sound and a lot of the places we were going were either under construction or open for tours. Directional handhelds were the best choice of the equipment we had for the job we were doing.
Noted, at least it does work but people not used to holding one as you do along with subconsciously moving their hands explaining things without knowing sometimes loses audio which is a tad annoying :P Whatever works I suppose as long as we get more vids! Another bonus I imagine with the handheld is NOT getting snagged on all the bits and pokies moving around.
Poor old gal looks just as bad on the inside as she does on the outside. It's a shame she has been allowed to deteriorate to this point. Makes me grateful for the way the USS Massachusetts is taken care of up here.
Yep, and this video is two years old. The Texas is in poor and failing condition overall, now. They say ahe'll get towed to Alabama for repairs and whatnot.
I toured the old girl quite a few years back with my late wife. I wanted to get back for her 100th but simply could not. I was shocked and saddened to hear of her latest difficulties. A veteran of two world wars and quite literally, the only one of her kind, deserves to be preserved in a berth that will not continue to eat away at her hull.
The Texas is refloated and awaiting the end of hurricane season to be towed to dry dock for a renovation!
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two words........DRY BERTH!!! Texas deserves it......and so does the USS Missouri
Olympia… All of them I guess. They are immersed in salt water and they can’t do anything but rust away.
I watched a video the other day saying that Texas has deteriorated so much that without the buoyancy of the water the ship would collapse under its own weight. Several structural members are pretty much rusted though. It would take a lot of shoring up. Besides I'm not all that crazy about dry berths anyway. Sure the Brits have done with HMS Victory and I think one other, but it looks strange to me. Ships should be on the water. USS Constitution has been in sea water for 200 years. The US Navy does the maintenance. I'm sure they'll do maintenance on Missouri and so on. I just hope the state of Texas hasn't let the battleship Texas get too far gone.
Here is an excellent example of what needs to happen to Texas... & the USS Olympia, for that matter- the last surviving ship of Roosevelt's Great White Fleet
czcams.com/video/KyzKKCLJIJA/video.html
USS Missouri won’t rust too much Arizona oil leaking around her
Odin029 strangely a wooden ship like Constitution is actually easier to maintain. At least over time. You can replace boards one by one as needed and rebuild whole sections with some skilled carpenters. And well preserved wood ages better than iron. The problem with Texas is the parts that are starting to rot are the main structural parts. Ones that you can’t just replace on the fly. You need to disassemble and rebuild the ship from scratch. And I don’t think Texas taxpayers are all that mean to build a new WW1 era Battleship?
This old girl has gone in harms way quite a few times. With other badassed ships. Glad to see the Texas is getting the recognition she deserves.
When I toured the Texas in 2003ish, the turrets were off limits to visitors. I wanted to see in there, thanks for the look.
Cheers! I believe they do hardhat tours down to the powder room now, if you get a chance to go back :)
I love how the tour guide says "its easy". They grew up in a different world if that is easy. Imagine being in there with the ship moving and swaying and your trying to carry 150 lbs bags around. Your smaking into other guys, the smell of sweat and gunpowder. If you were on the Texas then you were re-asighned to the Washington it would be like hitting the lottery. Wow
Great vid I hope there is more to come.
And thanks for the advise on playing the Texas it was very helpful.
yes the internet was not a thing so people were more active and more fit without being in a gym, not today.
xEL DUROx so true. Jobs were much more active. I sit all day and am begging for a stand up desk. Even construction jobs you sit in a tractor or other equipment.
Its a world that we can never truly understand because we never lived it.
Hundred pounds compared to a couple thousand? EZPZ :P
Trevzor FTW NC had everything automated I belive. So I would assume the man power was lower. I could be wrong.
From what I remember, you still had to move shells around to the elevators by hand even on the Iowas, but once they were there, they were automatically taken to and loaded in the rifle.
The damn government needs to take care of this beautiful warship she’s the last one of her kind
😹🤣 it’s always hilarious when people volunteer to pay more in taxes.
No, take all that aid sent to mohammedan countries that hate us and spend it on museum ships
It's a Relic. Well past its prime. Keeping it around is costing more than its worth. Another 40 years from now, no one will care any more.
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Her engine is the last of it's kind, too.
AS A LITTLE KID ,i ALWAYS WONDER WHAT WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THOSE SEALED DOORS AND HATCHES THAT THE PUBLIC COULDN'T SEE. i AM SURE ENJOYING THE TOUR YOU ARE SHOWING US. thanks a million.
The sooner you build the dam around the ship, the longer it will last.
I can hear that salty water saying "yummy"!
Thank you for the tour and the series, amazing content. I appreciate you!
Thanks for doing this, I hope she continues getting the help she deserves.
Agreed!
Thankfully to the worried few on the uss Texas my state ship she’s going to be 100 % overhauled on repairs the state just finished getting the cash to do so so no taxes were not increased either
Lot of folks prolly wouldn't of minded chipping in to repair this ship
Heaven forbid we raise taxes in Texas so the state can AFFORD shit. Fucking Teabaggers. Teachers have to buy their own supplies the state is so cheap but millionaires can write off their MANSION as a tax deductible.
I love this game and it’s creators. It’s amazing how they take the time to show the real history of the the ships. As we have fun blasting each other to bits I get reminded of what it really meant to be on this amazing ship. Thanks to all those who served and will serve to give us the freedom to enjoy games like these!!
Wow! Quite a process! Thanks for sharing!
I don't know if it was the same turret, but had an amazing opportunity in the early 2000's to be in one of these spaces. Bored docent fudging all the rules? Whatever. He showed a friend of mine and me a couple of the locked spaces and asked if there was anything in particular we'd like to see. I said bottom of a turret. He hemmed a bit, but we both had technical backgrounds, and after descending a few poorly lit ladders we were there. I hope she finds a home.
Incredible that she's the last dreadnought, especially with as many of them they built! The last one and all that history and she's not even dry berthed!
She is the only surviving battleship left from the very beginning of battleships in the 1880s to 1940 (North Carolina is the second oldest surviving battleship and was commissioned in 1941). Mikasa is a "museum ship" but only 40% of her is the actual original Mikasa and there are no guns on her anymore (they are fiberglass replicas). Mikasa is more of a memorial to a ruins/wreck of her than a proper museum ship. She exploded and sank long ago. Texas still survives intact miraculously and is still afloat. They are fixing her up in drydock now and I hope they take their time and don't try to rush the repair. If they do a good job she will be able to float for many decades to come without worrying about flooding.
Nice I've been in that same place on the battleship. I also got to see the map that was behind the fileing cabinet that show were the Texas has been. I got to go on a 1 on 1 tour and I'll never forget it.
What a grand old lady she is! I find it hard to believe that ship is well over a hundred years old; what an amazing piece of technology! I truly hope she can be saved and restored to her former glory.
It's a great thing to watch from a faraway , to see and hear about this great ship , I wish all the best to the uss Texas 👍
Amazing to see the evolution of shell rooms from the New York class to the Iowa class. Still manpower intensive, but you can definitely see changes. Thanks Trevzor! I wait for these videos every week.
-Tavman
Thanks for the love, Tavman!
Absolutely fascinating!
Thanks.
Another impressive vid, good work. I love this kind of informative video!
Cheers, mate!
Last of it's kind. Thank you for this very educational.
Looking at the paint on the bulkheads, the coxcombing on the ladder… think of the sailors who did that. The forgotten men whose hands expressed their pride in their ship. I wonder how long it’s been since those were applied?
She is a museum now, but once she was a living ship.
Exactly what I was thinking. Oh. And somewhere 1941-45 to answer your question.
Three-quarters of a century… That’s really something.
Hand Rope Work was still around then
I love these videos, I hope you can take them all and make a documentary out of them! Also, a suggestion for future videos like these, get a wireless lapel microphone for the tour guide, so they can have their hands free to motion and point when needed. That would also provide much smoother sound as with a handheld they wind up motioning with the hand holding the microphone and you have a hard time hearing what they are saying.
i think the coolest part of that area is, that all of that paint is original... probably since the last repaint during war time. It would be awesome if they finally got around to repainting it to look brand new and restore the rooms, but also keep it how it is
Great stuff WG
I dont understand the state of texas... hell the USA gov. as of why they wont afford a tiny bit of money to keep this beautiful ship afloat?
You and me both bud. Born and raised in Texas and when I learned the Texas I was heart broken to hear that almost know one really cares about this poor ship. Honestly the saddest thing to me is that i have been to Houston twice and have yet to see my ship.
xXE4GLEyEXx Because it will rise people's taxes and we don't want that we have some ignorant people that really don't care about the ship the state is paying some part but yet won't pay the rest... I don't know why but that's what I know
Rise taxes? The annual military budget is well over 600 billion dollars. That isn't coming out of thin air. 0.1% of it would be enough to save the ship but they spend it on proxy wars and maintaining military occupation all over the globe instead.
Sadly, most Texans probably don’t even know of this ship’s existence. They don’t care about military history. Not that they hate it. But Texas, especially now, is more concerned with repairs then anything else
You can't even get a republican governor to pave roads or maintain bridges. Most of that is because they raid coffers to grease palms, and refuse to tax the wealthy that got them elected. And the poor can't pick up the slack, so things just get neglected.
Very well done!
Thank you kindly!
The first time, I saw the concept of the dryberth was at a museum in New England where they have a steam boat / steam ship high and dry out of the water. The ship is made out of wood. But I believe this would be the answer for the USS Olympia a cruiser from the Spanish American War and Admiral Dewey's flagship. Also one of a kind and underfunded.
WW1 technology at its best
Astounding is for sure.
The Texas is closed to the public. The state has spent close to $85 million over the past 12 years trying to patch it. They have given $35 million to move it and be repaired out of state. The Texas will return but not to it's current location. The state requires it to be placed where there is more tourism because the number of visitors is not enough to pay for the upkeep of the ship. After visiting it this year I have to agree it's in the middle of nowhere. It could go to Corpus Christi where the Lexington is based. The reason I like this idea is you would have two great ships together, which I would think would attract more out of state visitors.
The reason I view it was in the right place for it was by independence parkway where the battle of San Jacinto happened. It was a place of our freedom and the battleship was a great addition of every Texans pride. She did need repairs, I ain't gonna lie, but they should dry dock her for she whould corrode worse in saltwater.
It looks like the cost of just fully repainting the interior would be millions.
@@ethanhernandez15 I think the Texas drew more people then the battle site drew. You need a lot of visitors to keep it up.
@@SvenTviking Very expensive, it is unfair for the Texas taxpayers to bear the upkeep of the ship. This is why it should be moved to a place where tourist dollars can help to keep it maintained. The USS Lexington carrier receives no federal, state or local tax funding. The USS Iowa battleship receives no federal, state or local tax funding. The key is to place it where people can see it while on vacation.
@@jeep146 I understand.
Please make a video on the Naval Legend USS Missouri
Just read the latest on the Texas. The survey to determine the condition of the hull was completed in November. They needed it to know the best way to transport the ship. The channel is being cleared to make it easier to dredged it for the move. They are getting ready to send out proposals for a new location, the decision should be made early in 2020. I doubt if I will be able to see it move, but hope to see it in it's new location after repairs.
Talkin' ship. Big time ship :))
This is a big ass piece of ship!
Go USS Texas!!!!! It is awesome!!!! Have a good day
Yeah!
Alert: The WoWs splash screen for NA took me to the previous Bofors gun video not this. I had to manually navigate to here.
next time i visit the USA i want to come and see here
What kind of powder room has no mirror or a place to put other makeup?
Need to get a volunteer organization to manage getting volunteers come in and paint and restore areas of the ship.
Old girl needs some work! Would love to see here underpower again someday.
poor thing look at it its rusting like crazy
do the new egalitarian ships have multiple powder rooms?
I was totally unaware of the age of this ship. Other than the USS Olympia. I didnt realize there were any memorial ships with triple expansion reciprocating engines
Jerimiah O’Brien in San Francisco has a working triple expansion engine (WWII LIberty Ship museum.....engine appears in a couple of movies.....Titanic, for one..)
@@dickdickerson3164 thanks for the comment
That sounds smart!
Not bad for 1914, right?
Is that his handkerchief dangling from his back pocket?
I wonder if there would be any interest in forming "maintenance tours" with guests having maintenance backgrounds attend to one area of the ship, performing care for a single area of the ship? It would be useful for people used to today's world of convenience and labor-saving environment to see a crew at work in such a labor intensive environment.
So are those shells original that were decomitioned or replicas
They are real ones
Sorry about the humor, but I just couldn't get it out of my mind of the Captain's wife and her friends insisting on visiting the Powder Room.
Wow !!! Where can I donate a can of paint
You can donate to the Texas Parks and Wildlife. TPWD.gov.
You can’t just get paint from Lowe’s, that’s not a seaworthy paint.
Enough to fire 1200 times... Is that per barrel (so 10800 rounds) , or in total, so like 400 rounds per turret? (9 guns, no?)
That is total stores, so it is about 120 rounds per barrel.
@@tomscotttheolderone364 Thank you :)
If I’m not mistaken the Texas is the only living warship in America that was built using mules
Start a State Lotto to save the ship
Iowa class could fire main guns every 30 seconds according to curator of USS New Jersey, as I recall. These rates potentially rain a tremendous number of shells on a single target in one minute if desired.
please show damage control on the ships, how they plugged holes ect.
Sadly Damage Control wasn't one of the main stops on our tour of Battleship Texas :(
aww, when i was on Texas the damage control room was one of my fav stops. they used large plugs and hammers and had to hammer in the plugs. i had never seen anything like it, and when i look online you do not really see anything like it.
SoulAss4ssin We still use wood plugs and wood shoring. One thing about the Navy is that if it works, they don’t change it.
The old lady doesn’t look so good. She deserves a dry berth and an in-depth restoration.
Much like my Mom.
WOW
What's more dangerous? Powder storage or warhead?
Powder by far. The shells had less that 100 pounds of explosives well protected by steel.
How many men would it take to hand crank a shell all the way up the hoist if it lost power?
Ratz Buddie - chain fall is usually one person , go 100% and let someone else do the same. They are still used in factories
1200 to 1500 lbs weighs as much as a ford focus. Right. Someone hasn't looked at their registration and title very closely.
More like one of those 3 wheeled slingshots
A focus is closer to 3000lbs these days.
Two of those is your focus
Are those rounds still live? Or have they been emptied?
They are not live...
Most of the shells I have seen on US navy museum ships are inert training rounds (so while no explosive have a similar weight in ballast), those are probably just old enough they are not in the NATO standard color scheme for it, with the exceptions from training rounds being very old cannon shots that contained no explosives of any form in the projectile.
Where is the USS TEXAS located
Across from the San Jacinto monument in Port Arthur, Texas
La Porte, TX. East of Houston.
Think it's in bad shape now , you should have seen the old battle wagon before it was hauled to Todds shipyard for dry docking . Had a lot of lower plate damage repaired , unrepaired structural steel in the engine room and under the boilers was left which is probably causing some of the issues today . I'm sure more funding is in the pipeline . But I'm sure if you would like to help you can call the T.P. & W. or The Texas Historical society and see if you can donate to the restoration and Permanent Dry Docking project .
Over 600,000 pounds of steel plate if I recall correctly. I remember seeing the video after the dock was pumped out & the water just pouring out of Texas' bottom like a colander in the sink.
@@HM2SGT Yeah , I worked at Todd's back then and did some volunteer time while she was there. We all knew it was just a bandaid , without pulling the boilers and engine gear to get at the structural problems . This will have to be looked at even if permanently dry docked . Maybe with concrete footings the boilers and engine gear can be jacked up to get the repairs done as opposed to lifting the equipment out .
In Dec 1988, when the ship was pulled out the San Jacinto slip, flooding alarms were sounding before the ship was turned to head toward Galveston. The keel cleared the dry dock by only 6 inches
You are correct that the Galveston overhaul was only a bandaid. It took care of the immediate issues but not the long term one. When the flooded areas were drained the salt in water was still coating unprotected steel.. By 2000 flooding was back
If I had too much money, that ship would be restored to WWII fighting condition and then berthed in a dry dock.
Oohhhh, THAT kinda powder room....lol
Jason Hayes
Haha, yes.
Yep. The one you take a shit in is called a Head.
They should have a special Battle Flag For the USS Texas The Texas flag
Sad to see the deterioration.....
Good to see that a legislation passed to get Texas refitted finally
Broke your tripod?
Never used one for this video series. Too bulky to get to the confined spaces.
ENCLOSED DRY BERTH
I don't know why someone doesn't just go in and sand blast the interior and re prime it. So easy and cheap. Room by room might take 10 years but still worth it.
Ok, Michael, again, the Texas is the ONLY Dreadnought IN EXISTENCE! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought takes you RIGHT to the Wikipedia page that defines Dreadnought and there to the lower right is a picture of the Texas and it says right there, U.S.S. Texas The only Dreadnought still in existence, was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship. The link you gave me.
Why not just move her and all ship museums to a pool/pools with fresh water or mineral oil? I am not sure, but I'm pretty sure mineral oil doesn't cause ships to rust, so moving the Texas into a pool filled would stop the rusting, most likely.
The powder goes to California, just ask Tony Montana.
Hand held camera too low, lapel mics would be easier, tripod mount and rehearse the moves.
Good ol'American muscle
I would like to see them do a video on about If the big guns can be fired Aboard the USS Texas You don't have to fire them To see if they could be fired again Out of curiosity have experts come in To check the big guns out To see if they could be fired again in Theory
There are no doors on a ship..., They are HATCHWAYS or HATCHES. Dr. Rhiannon A. La Passioneria CDR USN Ret.
WTD?
The military has a 700 billion dollars of budget.. dammit i wish they try maintain the history battleship..
I WANT A SHINANO why we don't have em
Because this is Battleship Texas... No Japanese Aircraft Carriers in Houston.
Dead😂💀
Angel 21 ...
I agree, Texas is a very wealthy state and I see the paint peeling and the metal itself in a state of rust, Damn shame that they have let our Battleship get into such a sorry shape! NO EXCUSE!
Here in England we have an amazing complex in Portsmouth. The Victory is dry birthed and cared for as befits a national (and world) treasure. We have HMS Warrior. We have the salvaged Mary rose in a dedicated museum. We have HMS Belfast birthed in London.
And we have a pittance of a national budget compared to America. Sadly we were in a dire financial condition after ww1* so Dreadnaught was scrapped, the same with ww2* so we couldn't save Warspite.
BUT. The USA has next to no history compared with England. So surely something like Texas is a HUGE part of American history.
That it's not cared for is baffling to me. If there is no budget for it. Scrap an Iowa or 2 to pay for her care? Anything to save the world's last Dreadnaught and a ship that's what, seen a quarter of the time America has been around!?
America can afford a collosal military but can't care for its military history?
My mind boggles.
End of rant.
*ironically America had most of the British treasury 😂 in both cases. But so the cost of war.
Adam Bainbridge this is more of a state government issue. I’ve seen the uss Alabama for instance and it was very well cared for
Your Ford Focus weighs like twice 1500lbs bro
Curb weight on the focus is 2935 pounds. I remember touring Massachusetts in fall river when I was a kid. They used the VW beetle as a comparison to the 16 inch projectile.
omg the main turret guns are not, nor have they ever been called rifles!!
Sorry, you're wrong. They have always been referred to as "naval rifles".
@@timsaxer6442 ty for the info looking it up i did find some references to naval rifes in reference to naval artillery or naval guns. tho to be honest it took a bit of digging as it doesn't seem to be an often used term at least anymore.
Texas construction drawings refer to them as rifle
The condition this ship is in is absolutely deplorable
I've been on about a dozen WWII ships and Texas was by FAR in the worst shape. She needs a whole lot of help.
i wonder how dangerous it is to be a crew in the powder room when your warship is being shot at....
You have the most armor around you, but a serious direct hit will ruin your day
soo basically it has it's pros and it's cons, just ave to pick which one is more important to you XD (if you have a choice that is)
I don't rightly think that you get to choose your job in wartime navy... Can you lift things? Great, lift gunpowder.
Sure they'd be behind a lot of armor, but they're also at the deepest part of the ship. Making it incredibly hard to escape in case of sinking or capsizing.
there have been a few warships that suffered fires to the powder rooms but statistically very few of them. The worst part is if the ship starts taking on water or is burning topside you are the last person to get out.
I think we need more soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen & coasties in our elected representatives?
Go Fund Me. Save the Texas
Poor audio quality...sad.
collar microphone, removes the need to crank my volume and allows the person explaining things to be able to move their hands. Like the vids but getting annoyed with the giant handhelds and loss of audio when 90% of these people use their hands while speaking.
Thanks for the feedback!
Lapel mics were not used specifically because they pick up a lot more of the ambient sound and a lot of the places we were going were either under construction or open for tours. Directional handhelds were the best choice of the equipment we had for the job we were doing.
They should hire an more professional interviewer. Trevzor should stick to (as I've been told) long and terrible super-tester discord meetings...
I'm a savage :)
Noted, at least it does work but people not used to holding one as you do along with subconsciously moving their hands explaining things without knowing sometimes loses audio which is a tad annoying :P Whatever works I suppose as long as we get more vids! Another bonus I imagine with the handheld is NOT getting snagged on all the bits and pokies moving around.
Hand vs collar mount is not the issue.
nice to get a peak under the ole girls skirts to see how the big bangs were accomplished.
"Powder room" sounds like a women's toilet. Don't we mean "magazine"?
That needs some real paint work
Poor old gal looks just as bad on the inside as she does on the outside. It's a shame she has been allowed to deteriorate to this point. Makes me grateful for the way the USS Massachusetts is taken care of up here.
The whole thing looks poorly maintained. Rust everywhere.
Yep, and this video is two years old. The Texas is in poor and failing condition overall, now. They say ahe'll get towed to Alabama for repairs and whatnot.
Ok....I'm not listening to some guy asking the obvious. If that's the case I'll watch t.v.
So, it's not a room for women with mirrors applying makeup!
Is there anything that doesn't bewilder this interviewer? Yes, it's cool, but it's not magic FFS.