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.
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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...
Should have been HMS Queen Elizabeth moored where the Belfast is today. Pity Dreadnought wasn't preserved either.
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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)
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“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
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.
Would have been hard to choose, but QE was in both wars so that would tip the hat IMHO.
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.
I'd still have picked KGV though because of the Bismark action.
Just the thing for putting round holes in square heads.
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.
Isn't that ironic!
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.
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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.
Probably would have been a good place to build the new RN ships, seeing as the industrial roles are more or less reversed now.
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is preserving her for generations to come.
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