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A great day for the USS Texas the very last surviving WWI Battleship so glad the USA is preserving her for generations to come.
Sadly her screws are gone being bronze I gather they'd be worth a pretty penny as scrap.
Battleship USS Texas moved from the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte, Texas - YouTube
She's "supposed" to permanently dock in Beaumont TX after repairs, about 12 miles north of us. Quoted, as city council members are still discussing details...
Russ
Should have been HMS Queen Elizabeth moored where the Belfast is today. Pity Dreadnought wasn't preserved either.
KGV would have been the one to have preserved there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Surpmil
Would have been hard to choose, but QE was in both wars so that would tip the hat IMHO.
Just looking at a few photos of KGV: striking the damage done to her bows by collision with a destroyer, versus the way Queen Mary chopped that cruiser in half with little damage (IIRC)
Pre dreadnought Mikasa is preserved. I don't think it's in water anymore though.
It's the oldest preserved battleship, 1899, and the only surviving British constructed battleship.
But Warspite had the most battle honours of any Royal Navy ship and was also a WW1 era QE class, so perhaps the Grand Old Lady should have been the one picked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Surpmil
I'd still have picked KGV though because of the Bismark action.
Isn't that ironic!Quote:
Originally Posted by BVZ24
Mikasa's former opponent at Tsushima the cruiser Aurora is still afloat in St. Petersburg.
I just had a look at her Wiki page and it says some of the armour (main belt?) was made in Britain.
I found that it was manufactured at Vickers, a very similar design to the Formidable.
By that you mean the Mikasa? Kongo was the last IJN ship entirely built in Britain IIRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by BVZ24
Probably would have been a good place to build the new RN ships, seeing as the industrial roles are more or less reversed now.