Battleship Texas and New Jersey Talkin' Shop Part II 

I hope you guys get to collab more in the future. These are informative, talking about things most of us would never know. Thanks!

I took the dry dock to our a couple weeks ago it was fantastic! I’d encourage anyone who’s interested to take the tour. It is a unique and rare experience to see the only dreadnought out of the water. The tour is a great way to support the ship while she’s closed to guests. We had an awesome knowledgeable tour guide, Tom Scott, who did a great job showing us around.

Love seeing our BBs working together!

Loving the collabs guys. Much love from Poland

The amount of work to keep these ships up is staggering to think about

So cool that both curators are talking and sharing info. Keep up the team work.

It is truly amazing to see these ships still in such amazing condition .There are many of the more modern ships I've seen that might have been preserved with the massive costs involved and a lot of work for maybe twenty or thirty years with appeals and donations , and battleships are probably the most robustly constructed steel vessels ever , but the fact Texas is still there and in such good condition after all this time is a tribute to the generosity and dedication of everyone involved over the years .

Have to thank you guys too for the heat+constant force method of freeing up rusted parts. That got something loose that I thought I was going to have to cut off at work the other day. My manager thought I had lost it when I suggested the Battleship Texas method to get it loose!

We just need Drach to jump in here for the holy trinity.

HI GUYS WHAT A GREAT BATTLE SHIP CLASS ROOM TO TEACH TO ALL ,, !!!!! THAT WE DIDNT KNOW.. MY SON MAX LOVES THIS CHANNEL AND WE WATCH TOGETHER.. ALL ABOARD... CHEERS!!!

I looks like you are taking every advantage of the drydocking to get all the work done you can!

this was fascinating gaining insights into the history of museum ships and hearing about the measures taken to preserve these precious artifacts for decades into the future. easily one of my favorite videos so far!!!!! i just wish i was close enough to visit that grand old lady one day!

There was a set of quad 40's in MCAS Iwakuni Japan sitting on the side of our shops back in the mid 80's. Spent a lot of time hand cranking it.

Wouldn't miss you all for the world. Your doing a Hell of a job on a ship that's been neglected for a very long time. Thank you. I can assure you the men who served on her are smiling.👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

Excellent work gentlemen, what you are doing in preserving these historic ships is so important for future generations! Thank You!

Travis, It would be fascinating if a book was published on the process (both proposed and actual) of how the ship ended up in Texas and had copies of the correspondence from SECNAV and the TX Gov, the 1946 plans, and the legislative processes that led to TX ending up in San Jacinto.

GREAT VIDEO !

good one

See you guys on Sunday when we do our dock tour, looking forward to it.

Cool deal and what an awesome 'set' to film at. Thanks for sharing.

i still find this interesting, to learn of the changes and upgrades the US Navy made to a ship throughout her life time, especially such a long life as the Battleship Texas to see the weapons once installed is a real bonus, previously might only be seen inside or outside a Naval museum and probably not so well maintained and cared for, and not in their correct location or out of reach to most of us on a sunken wreck below the sea these weapons all be it an ugly reminder, a reality of war, were very likely used in anger during WWI and WWII towards the enemy and to learn of the documentation, and thoughts behind those mentioned is quite incredible i have seen this myself more recently when a 1990s vintage simulator was handed over, there were so many rules and regulations of what was allowed and mostly what was not allowed to happen, such as powering anything up, while there were no test computers, hardware or software, most of the instruments were present, only a handful missing such as those that might cause some infringement concerning air traffic - it could only be a static display, with only lighting powered up i think it was a great shame and could well be converted to run standardised computer simulation - in fact i had at that time made contact with a guy who built his own simulators and was and is very good at what he does, he has built both military and civil simulators, helicopters and commercial aircraft all in his back garden and had many trained and retired pilots fly them to report that they were very realistic bringing their memories back to life - that's history being made present history

Nice to see closeups of guns and things!

Keep the collabs coming! The new content is fantastic!

Love the collab updates!

That was an awesome filming shot ...past the ends of and under the barrels.

Thank you.

You guys should make an interactive coin machine out of one of the quadmounts!

loving these videos! hope theres gonna be some more!!

great video as always

Hay K Barret 63 , just looked at those stats from the link you gave .I a very impressed i had no idea there was that much info over there. 👍🇺🇸 C&E*Ca.USA.

I'll see yall in drydock on the 30th of april

Great job, and continue the mission, gentleman!

Great series! I'm learning so much!😊

Ryan, as a light blond, I’m jealous of the great beard you can grow. I can only dream.😂

Great video on San Jacinto Day.

Me: Looking at Ryan's beard.

Ryans beard is looking great

It would be amazing to see texas giving us a (blank) broadside after leaving drydock, I know its probably impossible but I'm allowed to dream, Keep up the good work gang the content is awesome !

i need one of those guns to put on a flat bed to handle slow drivers in the fast lane. I also have a couple of possums trying to eat my squirrel food that need to be take out and those would be perfect to keep the other varmints in line.

All hail the algorithm!

cosmoline baby.

Maybe you are not good at math, but this is your 75th Anniversary as a Museum Ship.

My Grandfather served on the USS Texas in WW1

There are times when Travis' audio was hard to make out. Microphone position?? Geez I wish these activities were about 2000 miles closer as I would be there every day helping out.....

Any thoughts of putting a airplane back on her, that sure would look cool.

Q: HMS Belfast, from the Pool of London, forward main battery is targeting a Service Station on the 1M motorway. What would be the target for USS Texas and USS New Jersey at their anchorage?

For the bolts that had to be broken off - those are presumably pre-nuclear steel right? Where did they end up?

I wonder what happened to the 1.1" guns.

Will you be adding tampions to the 5" guns to stop corrosion?

1 Q for either of you. * who started the "Mythos"... "KILLROY WAS HERE " LETTERING WITH A CARTOON OF A LONG NOSED BALD GUY LOOKING OVER A WALL ? USUALY SCETCHED IN YELLOW CHALK LIKE AN INSPECTORS MARK. has ben known to be found in some of the most out of the way places on meny ,meny ships. could you add anything? C&E*Ca.USA.

Cera Cote is an excellent product that would provide long term preservation. Not sure on the cost difference compared to other coatings.

A must read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Texas_(BB-35)

If you think you are cool, you aren't I have my own battleship cool.

Considering how important and valuable Texas is, why doesn't it go into a permanent dry dock type museum? I believe there is an old sailing ship in England that was fully restored, placed as a museum in 'dry dock', and I think they went as far as using glass to mimic the water line. This would make Texas last exponentially longer than putting it back into the water when done. I loved visiting Battleship Iowa in Longbeach, but it was still heartbreaking looking at the slow decay from the water line. It doesn't have to be that way.

Brings up an interesting point, are all of these guns NFA items or some form of exempted Destructive Devices and/or Machine Guns?

:)

will we see the Iowa class battleship be brought back into action? that is after being modernized.

The curator of a ship should have a 'CWO' type uniform and be CLEAN SHAVEN...just saying :)

Wasn't the USS Constitution the first?

Why are you still on TikTok??

Ughh, why are they out in the open rusting… put them in a warehouse and clean them up.

Stop with Tick Tok …..