This video was from two days ago...:direct:...Ben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQA...hirdCoastDrone
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This video was from two days ago...:direct:...Ben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQA...hirdCoastDrone
Cool. :cool:
"Texas was also a technological testbed: the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US warship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers, the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, and one of the first US Navy warships to receive production radar."
- Wikipedia
It's fitting she's being rehabbed in Galveston.
Hunter
Yes, the initial plan was to tow it to Alabama for the work...I'm not even sure it could have made a trip like that afloat...:flush:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by UTAH
Wow....dem some bad bones:jawdrop:
As you drive I-95 through Philadelphia one passes the USS Olympia.. (I believe) the last surviving ship of “The Great White Fleet”.. they were worried about the same issues as Texas and the discovered that the ship is sitting on the bottom and not floating..
Olympia (C-6) has a long, storied history, Joe, but I don't believe it participated with either squadron of The Great White Fleet...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandman
It is however the oldest surviving steel US warship...:salute:...BenQuote:
As tensions increased and war with Spain became more probable, Olympia remained at Hong Kong and was prepared for action. When war was declared on 25 April 1898, Dewey moved his ships to Mirs Bay, China. Two days later, the Navy Department ordered the squadron to Manila in the Philippines, where a significant Spanish naval force protected the harbor. Dewey was ordered to sink or capture the Spanish warships, opening the way for a subsequent conquest by U.S. forces.
Oops.. my bad..
But.. in my defense.. it looks like it could have been..
Olympia is on a busy section of urban interstate.. only three reasons to be there.. one is actually going to Philadelphia (near famous cheese steak shops) or one is stopping at the “beer distributor” under the Walt Whitman bridge (a Pennsylvania Beer Distributor is something to see, PA liquor laws have hard liquor in state stores and beer by six pack in bars and by case in distributor (laws are changing allowing beer in food stores), a good beer distributor is a huge warehouse filled with pallets of beer and soda and chips and illuminated by a kizillion beer signs, quite the PA experience.. I quit drinking but still stop at a huge beer distributor in Hanover when there) or third avoiding the Delaware River bridge toll (I-95 just above Trenton is the only free river crossing)..
Pardon the rambling, just a little local trivia..