The USS Texas (BB-35), a century-old dreadnought battleship, served with distinction in both World Wars. A technological ...

Nearly 81 years later, on a clear May morning, I walk the gangplank to the Texas, now moored in the placid waters of the Galveston Ship Channel. For decades, the ship, decommissioned in 1948, was ...

For decades, the USS Texas was one of the most feared battleships in the U.S. Navy. Armed with anti-aircraft guns during World War I, its crew kept German fleets from severing Allies' supply lines. It ...

The Lone Star State Loves The USS Texas – While there is still considerable work that needs to be done to preserve the only surviving battleship to see service in both World Wars, when the restoration ...

The USS Texas is the last of a WWI-era class of battleship known as "dreadnoughts." It saw action in two world wars before becoming a museum in 1948. The repairs to its hull, expected to cost $35 ...

NORFOLK, Va. (Navy Times) -- The guided missile cruiser Normandy returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Saturday after a 279-day and 70,000 nautical mile circumnavigation of the globe. Normandy ...

Hunter Miertschin helps secure a rope on the USS Texas in August 2022 in La Porte. The vessel, which was commissioned in 1914 and served in both World War I and World War II, was towed down the ...

If ships could talk, the 103-year-old Battleship Texas would say that she's tired. She'd say that she's fought the good fight and that she's ready to give in to the rust that is eating away her life.