Battleship Texas: Shipyard Time-Lapse June 7 - 13, 2023 

They have enough trouble running the active ships.

@@Masada1911 Congress doesn't run the ships. Budgets and major authorizations.

@@veleriphon I know yes :-)

@@Masada1911. They only have “trouble” because they to busy laundering the money to their own pockets or “accidentally” pisses away an additional 6 BILLION to Ukraines soy boy Zelinsky who the funnels 400 million to his pocket which we as taxpayers on the hook for. Lets not pretend that this country would have trouble maintaining some museum ships.

its always an interesting concept getting monies and permission to do stuff like this, i for one could easily guarantee many hundreds of personnel would gladly give free time to volunteer and do this kind of work, perhaps under supervision to keep continuity and things on track, what i am interested in, is the numbers, i.e. scrap metal value to the value of new materials cut and assembled into the modules which is the major cost - and i know that the figures will not be known for sometime as hopefully most of the scrap will be made into valued items for sale assisting with costs, 'owning a piece of Texas' i guess the only extras then are the cost to use the floating dock and its man hours, that's the sort of thing that could be waived by congress, surely - ok so its a business, of course it needs to make money all the time, paying for its keep and to keep folk employed, but its worth a look into - i know myself in not only how important museums are to keep artefacts safe, but for education and tourism, its pretty big business, i worked with a small museum that had 70 or so visitors roughly per day, bad days around 35, but very rarely, the museum did pretty well for its self

I think she is the oldest ship in the nation that isn't still in service. The oldest battleship in the world is Mikasa a predreadnought for Japan but she's encased in concrete so it's a bit different

@@travissmith5945 you are correct, she's the oldest retired military vessel in the US. The oldest ACTIVE is the Constitution and she is a wooden sailing ship from the 1700's the navy maintains and uses. The Texas still needs an escort though. She's earned that.

I'm sure there's more but between that and the main hull that's a good part!

Good question. Complete guess but I would say from a cost standpoint probably not since they don't have to be. I doubt they'll even fill them with foam. Pure speculation.

Hypothetically, I would think not. These replacements were designed differently from the originals, more to provide buoyancy than protection from torpedoes. They are shorter and would not provide as much protection to the underside of the ship.

They don’t cover as much of the hull depth, but I don’t think that matters with modern keel-breaking torpedoes (they explode under the ship to break it in half). It’s also not as much of a sacrificial layer so more of the shock would travel into the hull.

The goal is 2 fold: - increase buoyancy - make the blisters more serviceable by having flat bottom, so easy to paint and keep them dry.The new shape does not go as deep as the old one, but nobody will see it. At the end, they are not for protection. Theoretically if the torpedo hits just below the new blister line, yes, the defence is reduced.

I'm sure it's a bit so buy some souvenirs like I have!

If I remember correctly, the figure for dry docking and work was $35m paid in advance. This includes towing and insurance. Just think. Battleship Texas is almost as old as Titanic (a couple of years difference) but it is cheaper and safer to visit.