Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: leif@sugar.hackercorp.com (Lee King) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Summary: USS Texas Message-ID: <1990Oct1.022033.3015@cbnews.att.com> Date: 1 Oct 90 02:20:33 GMT References: <1990Sep24.001114.22188@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep27.031257.6534@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 33 Approved: military@att.att.com From: leif@sugar.hackercorp.com (Lee King) In article <1990Sep27.031257.6534@cbnews.att.com>, mlfisher@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes: > From: mlfisher@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu > In article <1990Sep24.001114.22188@cbnews.att.com>, jimcat@rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak) writes: > > I'm curious about the locations of battleships in the United States > > and elsewhere (if there are any elsewhere). > > USS NORTH CAROLINA is at Wilmington, NC. I believe that USS ALABAMA is also a > museum at Mobile, AL. USS OLYMPIA, while not a true battleship, an armored > cruiser, is on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. I think below the Ben > Franklin Bridge, (can't keep the Franklin and Walt Whitman bridges apart). > OLYMPIA was Admiral Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manilla Bay in the > Spanish_American War. > > Mike Don't forget U.S.S. Texas! Texas just recently returned to its permanent berth near the San Jacinto Monument (site of the Texian Army's defeat of Santa Anna in the Texas Revolution) after a major refit. After many years of neglect, the old girl (only surviving battleship that served in both World Wars) was completely refurbished at Todd Shipyards in Galveston. She is now in a free-floating berth off the Houston Ship Channel, dressed out in the Pacific Blue of her last active duty service with the Pacific Fleet in WW II (Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the surrender in Tokyo Bay). She also served in the D Day invasion (fire support) and in general Atlantic Fleet duty in WW I. I missed the rededication, but I hope to get down and see her soon. -- The Libertarian Party -- the Party of Principle I'm the NRA