Battleship Texas is leaking again 

'We had the camera setup to be level'. As oppose to our usual 35 degrees.

Seeing a historic battleship slowly sinking makes me very sad

Dad: "Well, she had never seen a battleship, being from India and all" Daughter: "It was in very good condition back when I was here 3 years ago" Me: "OK"

It’s the only Dreadnought class ship left,WE CAN’T LOSE IT!

Trillions of $$$ wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan and can't spend $25 mn on a national treasure?. Wtf pentagon?.

U.S can afford very expensive planes but cannot even finance 25mil ??? WTF!

This ship is a one of a kind precious historical monument. With all of the money the government simply throws away on nonsense it would be a drop in the bucket to preserve the only surviving pre-WW I dreadnaught in the entire world. I'm so glad I got to see it in 2015.

not only losing a ship, but a steam engine that is in it's self considered a national treasure. the only one of it's kind still existing engine would be a huge loss.

See you all in 3 years when this is recommended again

Texas was just reenacting the battle tactic she used on D-Day. I'll see you guys in a few years to re-do this joke.

They should dry dock it before it capsizes

Im so happy to see a WWI Battleship still existing ,but I'm sad in the same moment because it gets no care... Greetings from Germany

I had the privelege of touring the ship many years ago. That proud warrior deserves to be saved

I hope they save her. After all, she is “Historically Listed”

"most kids of her age dont know anything about the world war or anything that happened" me: allow me to introduce myself

Repair & eventual dry berth doesn't get cheaper the longer you put it off. Meanwhile it's been rotting away internally & externally for lack of maintenance. Glad I got a chance to tour what you could years ago.

i think the last remaining ww1 dreadnought is worth 25 Millionen $. i mean money can be replaced but when this ship is gone its gone, forever

For those who are saying "drydock", nope. The problem is not simply some leaks, the entire hull is the problem. Not that many years ago consideration was given to the idea of trussing the propulsion machinery (boilers, reduction gears, and the engines) to the main deck because there was fear it was going to fall through the bottom. So no, it can't be drydocked, the hull won't support it. My gut feeling (nothing more than speculation) is that she's past the point of no return.

That tilt looks unhealthy.

Battleship Texas: so anyway I started tilting like the tower of Pisa

The former flag ship of the Atlantic fleet is so poorly maintained and as a Texan I am deeply ashamed that now monument is just as important as any other monument if not more because unlike other old warships this one still has the ability to fight again. That salt water is just a ship killer specifically on a ship that has not moved in at least twenty years.

call the dutchies, they will make land around the BB

Its funny that a country like USA cant maintain right a unique ship while Greeks with all their problems they maintain the last Armored Cruiser on the world "Averof" in perfect condition. She is 107 year old lady and this summer they brought her into drydock for extensive maintance.

"Battleship Texas is leaking again" World of Warship fans: Azur Lane Fans: Interesting...

I love this ship. I remember as a Cub Scout we would go there all the time for over night camp outs, and in elementary school we went there twice for field trips. At one point I actually learned my way around the ship very well from visiting it so much. I recently returned to it earlier this year and I was so disappointed. The below decks are off limits, the AA guns can't be turned, and the cooking kitchens was filled with crap. I really hope this ship is repaired, and that when they do so they get the AA guns working. For kids that's one of the best parts of going.

We need trump to give Texas a Small lone of a million dollars 25 times

Theres really only one choice and thats to get it out of the water. I can see 25mil turning into 50 million or more. Its not just the hull but the superstructure will be shagged as well...from the waterline down the vessel is dissolving and its not an easy fix. she's a big job.

The typical Texas politicians talk about Patriotism but it seems to be just that - all talk and no action for this symbol of heroism. .

My Dad and I were there on a road trip in early Feb last year. This is an Amazing experience! Walking through the ship, some places felt eerie while others felt alive. They were pumping water out of it and there was construction going on. But, of course, nothing like this or they would not have let us on the ship. Feeling kind of blessed to be able to share that with my Dad if it is going to be gone forever. We got some Awesome pictures.

She needs to be in drydock before she sinks. Perhaps her berth could be converted into a temporary dry dock while permanent repairs are made to her hull.

I remember when I was a cub scout I actually spent the night sleeping on the bunks and experiencing it, it was one of many memories I had of my childhood and to see this go makes me sad.

SS Great Britain is dry docked in Bristol, this has to happen for this amazing ship, it has survived. Here in England there are no Battleships left except for Hms Belfast in London, a fine ship a light cruiser that's as long as the Texas, Belfast saw a lot action in WW2 including the battle of the North Cape I am proud of it and I have seen it a few times and I am a big admirer of Battleships just a pity none of ours like the Rodney or Warspite survived : scrapped like all the others..

Build a coffer dam around the ship and pump it dry, then weld new plate sections into the old. Would require cutting out a lot of corroded steel.

One of the few things I remember from being a young child was sitting on a AA gun on the Texas. I really hope they can keep her safe.

The State of Texas needs to put together a solid business case for preserving the ship and building a tourist attraction around it. In 2016 almost 400,000 people came to the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park, with nearly 300,000 paying to tour the ships there. Certainly Texas can put together something on par with Mobile Bay.

Does the battleship has Patreon?

enough with the dry berth bullshit. Just dry dock it and weld new steel plates over the old plates... just GET IT DONE

How the F do you come up with a insane price of 25 million to dry dock it. Give me 5 million and 200 Mexicans and its a done deal in 1 week.

Beware if your city plans to receive a battleship, aircraft carrier or any other large ship to be a museum. Long Beach purchased the Queen Mary in 1967. So far they've spent $200 million on its conversion and repairs. The older the ship the more money it costs to keep it afloat. Sad that the sea is working against this mighty ship.

“Most kids don’t know when ww2 happened or anything about it” now that is pretty sad...

Perhaps the Texas needs a new home, a dry dock instead of being constantly in the water. The Maritime museum in Brisbane, Australia has done exactly that with the last remaining River class frigate, the HMAS Diamondtina, permanently drydocking her to extend her life and also cut down on the maintenance costs that start to build when a ship is constantly being effected by the corrosive qualities of water. It would be an expensive proposition in the short term but would very quickly cut down on the yearly costs

I was on that ship and it was amazing. Keep her afloat

Poor old ship 😢 For the price paid for maintaining these ships in the water, they should dry dock them as museums. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

This is really sad... In Greece there is a battlecruiser called G.Averoff (she served in Balkan wars, in wwi, in the war of 1922 and in wwii), that was built back in 1907, and though, due to extensive service and stuff, she is still floating... Do not claim that Texas cannot be saved because you do not have money. Neither do we, but we have kept Averoff alive over the years..

The state of Texas ought to have a fund raiser in order to salvage the Ol' Girl..... Nation wide this old battle wagon has touch many, many lives. Even if they have to shore up the hull with plate steel long enough to get her afloat and encase her in concrete like the USS Alabama in Mobile. Whatever it takes by any means, I sure hope that she can be saved. Good luck Texas!

This Lady needs saved at all cost,She is American history!

Meanwhile Onboard: FLOOD BELOW THE WATER LINE! HULL BREACH! WE'RE TAKING IN WATER! Damage control be like: wdym, we just fixed it, again? Wait another 60 seconds.

Whatever happened to the USS Texas, seeing as I'm asking 3 years after the video was posted?

I know this is a couple of years old... but I am commenting with a bit of an update. Texas is not just leaking but is in danger of SINKING now! Two local salvage companies have donated several of their largest salvage pumps (something in neighborhood of several hundred TONS of water pumped out per day capacity), the next problem is to provide them with electric power, the memorial foundation WAS 6 months behind in their electric bill and forgave several months before that. Another salvage company has VOLUNTEERED to tow her to the dry-dock (but the problem there is at her current draft she it too deep for the ship channel (and without the pumps running in the channel will only get DEEPER). Lastly the dry dock they want to use has SUBSTANTIALLY DISCOUNTED the costs of hauling her out, BUT this is NOT FREE, there are also some questions about her ability to be put on the blocks in the dry-dock and stay in one piece due to her water load internally. She is a gorgeous ship but is another of the sad collection of ships that is rapidly approaching the point that amount of money to just KEEP HER THERE IS BEYOND HER BACKERS FINANCIAL ABILITY, other ships on this sad list include; Hornet (in San Francisco), Intrepid (they TRIED to move her from her berth and nearly ripped the rudders out of her about the time this video was made), Lexington (and most of the ships in Battleship Cove)....

Pollitic's Aside - Texas Needs to Do What's Right and Save This Ship

at least they didn't chop it up like the uss enterprise which won the war in the pacific

Why leave an old ship in corossive salt water with an aging hull of easily rusted steel. If it is that valuable dry dock the ship which was what should have been done in the 1st place

Wow I didn't know American battleships could turn into submarines

regardless of wether this ship is or isn't a dreadnought, it must be saved because it is one of only three surviving bombardment ships from D-Day. The other two are HMS Belfast and U.S.S Laffey.

Visited her just last month, stunning piece of engineering. Part of the aft section was closed off and there was a lot going on over there, so the old lady is being taken care of. And wasn't listing either, nice and level. Hope it lasts.

"most kids her age don't know much about world war" I'm 12 and I am a historical world war book

It makes me sad because my grandpa great might have served on that battleship during ww2

I love the battleship Texas we can’t destroy this ship It fought at Normandy and Okinawa two of the most major battles

Dateline. Current . As it lays at anchor, The battleship North Carolina's sections of it's hull have rotted to being thin as Cardboard. A coffer dam needs to be built to set up a dry dock or it will in the Very near future sink at its moorings. NC still attempting to raise enough money just to construct just that. Money for hull repair is still sketchy.

You can coat the bottom of the ship with epoxy. Epoxy doesn't rust and will leave a long term solution to the rust problem. The hull may disappear but the epoxy will replace that hull and keep it water tight.

Preserving these ships is a major part of navel history the uss constitution just got a refit world oldest sailing ship the battleship north Carolina just got a refit with new hull work and thay did not move the ship if Texas can't afford to fix it thay should try to find it a new home in a state that can that would be better than just scraping it .

so sad,and thats comming from a brit.All historic ships should be dry docked.

Maybe some of these over paid movie and music stars could unpucker their wallets and donate the money

I Have been on the ship many times and I love going back my dad was in WW2 and this kind of history needs to be preserved. And I plan on going back to see her again

Well done to those people helping to save the old girl, hopefully she gets dry docked soon.

Honestly how do these famous celebrities make enough money to pull 10 of these ships out but never bother to help?? I’m js like have you ever seen any celebs on the news for using there money for good? Nahhh usually poor people go on the news for finding a million dollars and giving instead of being petty if I was rich I’d pay for it

Smh just click r to deploy the damage control teams

shes from india they never seen big ships or guns.... india has the 5th largest navy

In the end, if the ship is unable to be saved, the least they could do is remove some of the parts and display them, such as the main batteries and maybe some other things.

Here in Setúbal, Portugal we have a large unused dry dock, which belonged to Lisnave, the Portuguese company moved to another location and the shipyard has been abandoned since 2000, it would be an interesting project if they moved it here, it would be best.

for the price of just one fighter jet, this can all be done!

Why won't billionaires like Warren Buffet fund stuff like this rather than waste it in Africa

"causing it to lean" - uh, you mean list?

Went on the ship a few days ago, they wouldn't let us go down levels because they were making repairs to the ship and still were.

this is why you should drydock her and paint once. That way the salt water won't corrode the paint causing further expenses

Shame on the state of Texas an the US government

He trained her

I think you guys already know the name but The name isn’t “Battleship Texas” It’s “USS Texas”

My Father was an insurance adjustor there after Hurricane Carla in 61. He talked to the caretaker there at the San Jacinto Monument. There was so much flooding that the Texas was in danger of floating away. The caretaker had to swim to the Texas, along with the snakes in the water. He made it, got on board, and released an anchor so that it did not float off. I assume that is when they put the moorings in.

$25 million is a drop in the bucket to the right millionaire. He can basically adopt an irreplaceable piece of American history. How many rich dudes have battleships?

I'm a Canadian even to me seeing this monster piece of weaponry and engineering go under makes me so angry and sad

Seeing this just makes me so sad, I'm not American (Australian) but seeing such a beautiful and historic ship in this state almost makes me cry. I'm glad that people are actively trying to save this beautiful hunk of Metal, Companies such as Wargaming Europe using their Naval-Based War Game to help fund Texas' Repairs. Amazing that so many people care about it, Even after all of these years sitting in one place.

Fix this ship Texas! I can't believe as many millionaires are in Texas, you can't find 25 mill. Jerry Jones where are you??

The poor lady's been through hell and back for America. Please show some compassion and save her!

Hardly the most it's ever leaned. During the invasion of Normandy, the crew brought her within 3,000 yards of the beach, and gangster leaned this 35,000 ton warship by flooding all the starboard blister tanks, just so they could further angle her 14" guns to shoot at the Germans farther inland. EPIC!

I very much hope the USS Texas gets/got dry docked and properly repaired. That ship is the last of the New York-Class/Dreadnaught-Designated battleships.

I live about an hour north of this ship. I still have pictures of me and my dad walking around and touring it when I was a kid in the 70s. Sad to see it in this shape.

Fittingly describes the USA: they talk about being the "greatest country on Earth, number 1" - yet they can't even maintain a museum ship like this which is officially lauded as a prized piece of history.

It's a BATTLESHIP! It's meant to take a beating, take on water, and keep floating. We pulled battleships that had been bombed and sunk into the mud at Pearl Harbor back up to the surface, patched them, and sent them to kill the Japanese. She's old, but she's tough enough to hang on until they can dry dock her.

This is history and preserving (best on dry land) must be a high priority! Saltwater is corrosive.

I bet it would be cheaper to just permanently dry dock it. Just put it in a field somewhere. As long as it sits in water, it will continue to decay and preservation will continue to rise in cost.

The USS Texas is one tough bucket of bolts and I doubt very much she'll be going down anytime soon. She's just old and needs to be very well taken cared of, that's all~ :)

The battleship Texas is now 108 yrs old and is one of the oldest preserved battleships. I hope they don’t decide to scrap that ship.

I went there in May for an JRTOC trip, I really hope they fix it.

Dry dock it and we'll spray the hull with truck bed liner. We do that to all problem hulls here. Lifetime seal, no harm to the sealife.

Well one solution is to put a barrier surrounding the USS Texas, drain out the water, then concrete it into place by pouring in and around the ship as a foundation. Something similar as to building a dam.

Why not dry berth. The significant reduction in cost keeping it afloat would pay for it

"Most kids her age don't know anything about WWII and when it happened and anything like that". Where is this dinosaur from? most kids her age have access to more information than he ever had. Most kids her age know more about what happened in detail from both side of the ocean, allies and axis. Hell I knew more about WWII than my Grand Parents who were both born in France during WWII.

If it's so important, get 2 or 3 chinooks to hold it level for a few hours to stop the tilt while they repair.

I wish they would delete these old vidios about leaking 3years ago an post up to date that shows the positive side of the progress that's been made in 2020.