Overhead view of a USS Texas at Rockland Maine 1929
USS Texas at Rockland Maine 1929 2
Battleship under Brooklyn Bridge 1930
USS Texas at Honolulu Hawaii 1930
Battleship in drydock
Battleship USS Texas Normandy 1944
USS Texas Iceland February 1942
Battleship Texas at Rockland Maine
USS Texas underway
USS Texas 15 March 1943
USS Texas (BB-35) in Boston Harbor 25 February 1944
Battleship USS Texas and convoy off Brooklyn February 1942
USS Texas off New York 1919
Battleship USS Texas BB-35 In Action off Omaha Beach on D Day 1944
Texas’s keel was laid down on 17 April 1911 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company. She was launched on 18 May 1912 sponsored by Miss Claudia Lyon, and commissioned on 12 March 1914 with Captain Albert W. Grant in command.
After WW2 Texas was towed to San Jacinto State Park where she was decommissioned on 21 April 1948, and turned over to the state of Texas to serve as a permanent floating museum. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 April 1948.