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2025-07-26 -Land of the Free

Battleship Texas Finds Permanent Home in Galveston

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Posted by badanov 2025-07-26 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [120 views ] Top

#1 Great, now that we're up to date in 2023.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-26 04:21|| 2025-07-26 04:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Tillman Fertita (current Amb to Italy) really wanted it for his amusement park of Galveston.
It had previously been at the San Jacinto Battlegrounds, where it had been since being saved from the scrappers in the '50s.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-26 08:08|| 2025-07-26 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ...She is The Last Dreadnaught, with solid service in two wars and a legendary day at Normandy. She absolutely deserves to be saved, though I suspect at some point in the next couple decades some hard decisions are going to have to be made - her intended life expectancy was only about twenty years to begin with, and she's (IIRC) 114 now. Somebody should start looking at a way to eventually get her out of the water like Mikasa or Victory and preserve her that way.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-07-26 08:11|| 2025-07-26 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Agreed. A truly great ship.

Posted by Matt 2025-07-26 13:24|| 2025-07-26 13:24|| Front Page Top

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