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Throughout the majority of its history, Texans often had to fight for their freedom and Texan military culture is deeply embedded in what makes Texas, Texas. The Lone Star has been the site of numerous famous battles but these iconic historical events were not just limited to land though, as Texas also has a long history connected to Naval Warfare. In fact, the history of several discontinued warships still lives on in Texas as there still remain several ships, each with a long story to tell long after their service. This begs the question though, what happened to these abandoned warships that led to them laying dormant in the waters of Texas?
Chapters:
0:00 The Abandoned Warships Which Serve as a Reminder of Texan History
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3:41 The History that Shaped Texan Military Culture
9:08 The USS Texas - The Last Dreadnought in Existence
17:01 The SS Selma - The Experimental Concrete Ship
21:05 The USS Westfield - The Ironclad Gunboat that Fought in the Civil War
23:59 Conclusion - What Remains of the Abandoned Warships in Texas
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@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

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@LOBricksAndSecrets 2 года назад

The Texas is not abandoned. Her staff are actively restoring her right now and regularly post updates about their progress in their youtube channel.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

It’s fantastic they are so devoted!!

@cats400 2 года назад

Battleship Texas is NOT abandoned. They are in the process of a 30-40 million dollar restoration project. When she is fully restored, she will be moored in a new location with higher amounts of traffic. I've also heard that an accompanying museum will be built alongside her future berth. The long term goal of this project is to be able to generate enough cash to keep up with her annual required maintenance, which I've heard is two million dollars every year. She will NOT return to her existing berth at the San Jacinto battleground. She will go into dry dock at the Gulf Copper shipyard in Galveston in August of this year. She would've already been in dry dock, but the shipyard did not possess a dry dock that was capable of lifting her out of the water. The dry dock that will accomplish this task arrived at the shipyard in Galveston about two weeks ago. Mid August is the current estimate for when the dry dock and the shipyard will be ready to perform the monumental task of fully restoring her hull. She is expected to be in dry dock for 12 months. I plan on being there to see her be towed out of her berth at San Jacinto for the last time. She hasn't left her current berth since 1989.

@patrickwamsley3284 2 года назад

It's important to note that the Battlefield Texas is not abandoned by any means and is scheduled to go into drydock this year for much needed repairs and restorations of spaces onboard are active as we speak. It may be closed to the public, but is not abandoned.

@MattSitton 2 года назад

Yeah I'm glad they are finally doing it, they've been talking about how they are going to fix the ship for so long.

@PlagueOfFear 2 года назад

*Battleship

@thewordisgood1544 2 года назад

I was about to state the same thing!

@ArcturusCOG 2 года назад

Yep

@robertwbingo 2 года назад

Galveston: Pronounced "GAL-ves-ton". Reference the legendary song by Glen Campbell.

@e7yu Год назад

Texas also home to the WW2 aircraft carrier "USS Lexington" in Corpus Christi Texas.

@Firedad4132 2 года назад

As a few others have pointed out, the Texas has never been "abandoned". Poor maintenance by those who had the best of intentions, yes, but never abandoned. As of the other day, it's scheduled to be moved to Galveston late July early August for an extensive drydock. They are also in the process of finding a new home post-drydock. The ship also participated in the invasion of Mexico prior to entry in WWI, so WWI was not it's first military action.

@joshuamitcham1519 2 года назад

The Tampico Incident

@TheEphemeris 2 года назад

I feel like among those generals and prominent figures in the military who hail from texas, you should also have mentioned You forgot Audie Murphy, a kid from Texas who earned all available medals the US Army had to offer during WW2. One of the most highly decorated soldiers in US history.

@SouthTexasGaming17 2 года назад

As many people in the comments are saying, the Texas is not abandoned. I live a few minutes away from it. It’s still opened to the public but on certain days, they are trying to get it able to be moved to a dry dock for repairs

@Naasbc355 2 года назад

Odd choice for a lineup. The Texas is not abandoned and will head to Galveston for repairs soon but if she meets the criteria for your video then the Lexington, Cavala and the Stuart should definitely make your list too. The Cavala is the avenger of Pearl Harbor having sunk the largest carrier that participated in Pearl Harbor and the Stuart that escorted FDRs yacht to the Iowa so he could go plan the D-Day invasion with the other allied leaders meeting in Iran among other things. The Blue Ghost lady Lex is an amazing experience with a rumored ghost haunting the engine room (my kind of guy).

@ArcturusCOG 2 года назад

I’ve been to battleship Texas a long time ago and I’m glad they are repairing it, it’s not abandoned.

@whyjnot420 2 года назад

Texas is what can be called a 'super dreadnought' i.e. the 2nd proper generation of dreadnought style battleships. Also when it comes to 'dreadnought' that really just refers to an all big gun layout instead of the older style that had layer after layer of surface oriented gun (the French went so far as septenary batteries). Texas is one of several dreadnoughts left (if you are using dreadnought in the more general sense). For example the Iowa's and South Dakota class ships still around. When it comes to "last left" that would be Mikasa, the only remaining pre-dreadnought. NO first generation dreadnoughts exist anymore. Steam turbines are a feature of naval development at the time of HMS Dreadnought and she was the first capital ship to get them. However this is something that goes across the board and is not confined to the biggest ships. caveat: "all big gun" might be confusing to some people because they obviously have smaller guns. Pre-dreadnought battleships would have a big turret on the front and one on the rear, then a somewhat smaller secondary battery and smaller tertiary battery and so on. With dreadnoughts there will be 3 or more turrets and the gap between the size of those and the size of the next smaller guns will be huge in comparison to what pre-dreadnoughts had. The idea is that the main offensive power of the ship is all big guns. Not that it only has big guns.

@thewordisgood1544 2 года назад

Battleship Texas is the last Dreadnought ship remaining. The other American Battleship museum ships are considered Fast Battleships.

@ChaplainDMK 2 года назад

All big gun was more a concept for the first generation of Dreadnoughts that kind of disappeared after WWI as more varied threats appeared needing different weapons. But in 1906 the Dreadnought only had 3" guns for anti torpedo boat work, and the main 12" guns. But by WWI most Dreadnoughts already had 5-6" caliber secondary guns and a few anti aircraft guns, and by WWII you even had ships like the Yamato with 8", 6" and 5" secondaries.

@whyjnot420 2 года назад

@@thewordisgood1544 "Fast" battleships are only a product of increasing the speed without screwing over the armor or firepower of other, slower designs. Iowas would be fast both in comparison to older ships and the proposed Montana class (28ish kn). Yet had battleship development continued and given that we see carriers that can move faster than any of the battleships made while displacing 2x more than any USN battleship (at standard load, not full, if full then it would be slightly less than 2x), you can bet that there would be designs that made an Iowa look slow. (yes yes, carriers are an evolution of cruisers, hence the C in CV, but the point remains). South Dakotas are not "fast" when you compare them to an Iowa, afterall an Iowa is literally 25% faster than a SoDak. Though they were fast in comparison to the standards. Which are 25% slower than the SoDaks. (33 kn vs 27 kn vs 21 kn)

@operatorphantom1459 2 года назад

The battleship Texas is being moved in 4 or 5 days

@TGHibiki 2 года назад

Battleship Texas, BB-35, actually saw action before her shake down cruise actually. She went down as the strongest ship in the world to force the release of sailors in the gulf. She went back to finish her shake down afterwards. She was only only the strongest ship for a year before the new HMS Dreadnoughts popped up. But also she is not abandoned, we have been working on her minor pieces before she heads back down to Galveston for a major restoration before a new company takes it to a new location. I live less than ten minutes from her and have watched the work on her all my life both on her deck and off. I also had a store for a decade down on Galveston strand district that was for taking old styled photos. A lot of the history you mentioned here was accurate. Interestingly the Selma was one of many concrete ships done to see the effectiveness, one is still being used as a floating hotel in South America I believe.

@AshLilburne 2 года назад

This might sound funny, but as an Australian who'd only been exposed to Texas through various media over the years, I only realised it had beaches pretty deep into my 30's :/

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

I’m American (from Chicago) and I still don’t think of Texas as a state with access to the water.

@zaco-km3su 2 года назад

Interesting! A first Dreadnaught battleship, an experimental battleship and a historical military vessel. That's something remarkable.

@kellybenschram4640 2 года назад

It's also imported to note the floating drydock that will be repairing uss Texas arrived in the harbor where Texas is just over a week ago. She has not been abandoned or forgot she was closed so she could go into this drydock for repairs and will be reopening once the repairs are done

@Naasbc355 2 года назад

Negative, the drydock for the Texas is in Galveston.

@kellybenschram4640 2 года назад

It's a floating drydock brought in just for the for the ship. and do you really realize how close Galveston is to where Texas is? It's in the same bay!!! USS Texas is just up bay from galveston infact that whole area is seen as such.

@nomore-constipation 2 года назад

The USS Texas battleship didn't have a sexy role in guarding against subs (most people would think). But my father was a submariner, he would even defend the courage of ships at the time to take on a sub. You have to have steely balls to take on U-boats at that time for sure. There are multiple factors in warfare on the open seas and oceans. But to boldly guard vessels with the possibility of getting hit/sunk yourself is astronomical. You have to understand submarine history of sorts to know when they were feared greatly and when they were less of a threat to a random vessel on the water line.

@johnmilonas9143 2 года назад

Never heard of the SS Selma thanks for not letting it be forgotten.

@klipsfilmsmelbourne 2 года назад

when texas appered in michael bay film pearl harbor she play as many pearl harbor battleships though despite the ship wasn't at pearl but her guns and mast does recognised to the other pearl harbor battleships

@Texassince1836 2 года назад

All the ships lost at Pearl Harbor were WWI era relics, and Texas is the last WW1 era battleship left afloat

@jaydons7602 2 года назад

Fun act, Dwight D Eisenhower was actually born and raised in Abilene Kansas, You can still see his birth place and the graves of one of his kids, his wife and of him there today.

@chowardlaw8417 2 года назад

Sorry - Ike was born in Texas. His dad then took the family to Kansas, where Ike grew up. He always considered himself a Kansas boy, but he was born in Texas.

@bentley4446 2 года назад

Accurate fact: Ike was born in Denison TX in 1890.

@matthewpoplawski8740 2 года назад

No surprise to me that the Texas is haunted. Here in Charleston, S.C., we have two haunted ships in the second Yorktown (the first one was sunk during the Battle of Midway),and, the destroyer Laffey know as THE SHIP THAT WOULD NOT DIE(she earned this title after surviving numerous kamikaze attacks during the Battle of Okinawa). Check out Walter Cronkite's story of his his being on the Texas during the invasion of North Africa in his autobiography A REPORTER'S LIFE(his story of how he beat a competitor reporter back to the U.S. is something one must read)🌞🌞🌞✌✌✌✌

@johnnyrhea192 2 года назад

I have a pic took on USS Texas and we cought at lest spirits in the pic

@AshLilburne 2 года назад

Yeah calling myself 'Lord' on my dating profile is sure to bring in the ladies..

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Guaranteed!!

@thegreatchewwyexpress8044 2 года назад

Just got back from Galveston, Saw the Selma on the ferry ride offered there, Glad to see you shared her story as well.

@proud_tobe_texan2890 2 года назад

Very good vid, have visited the Texas back in 2017 and have seen the Selma from Seawolf Park while fishing (now closed I believe) both very interesting ships btw the Texas is currently about to go under major repairs involving a floating drydock as well that just arrived. With love from Texas

@MrTruehoustonian 2 года назад

Fuck yeah love all the Texas content, keep it up from the biggest city in the south Houston

@fullmetaljackalope8408 2 года назад

I’m so sorry excited you did my state! I always look forward to your videos and this was especially great. Thanks! Also it’s Gal ves ten. Not Gavel sten. But that’s not important. Great video anyway.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

We are so grateful for having you as a viewer and were delighted to cover a Texas topic - we have one more Texas video due out towards the end of summer and it’s a great story! Sorry for the pronunciation, I’m not the best reader - I actually did a Ted talk on the reason, why which you can find.

@fullmetaljackalope8408 2 года назад

@@ITSHISTORY great! Can’t wait for the other texas video! And I’ll check out your ted talk. Your reading sounds great to me. Very clear and easy to understand. The only reason Galveston stood out to me is I live like an hour from there. It’s our closest little vacation spot so I’ve been there a hundred times.

@fullmetaljackalope8408 2 года назад

@@ITSHISTORY oh that was such an inspiring Ted talk! I would have never imagined you had challenges like that. Thank you for sharing it with us.

@brendakrieger7000 2 года назад

Can you please do a video about the U.S.S..Olympia? It's in Philadelphia at Penn's Landing along the Delaware River.

@Idahoguy10157 2 года назад

One of those experimental concrete ship was intentionally grounded at Aptos CA. Being used as a fishing pier.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Oh wow, are there some photos of that?

@cats400 2 года назад

@@ITSHISTORY There are several concrete ships purposefully scuttled all over the United States

@lee95757 2 года назад

I saw a concrete old ship once. Couldn't figure out if it was real but now I know.

@edwinsalau150 2 года назад

They had a ship named after a town in New Jersey? Wow! USS Westfield; boy oh boy!

@jamieryall8341 2 года назад

Great video. Thank you.

@QuadinarosLS 2 года назад

10:34 It was the ship Mongolia that fired on the submarine, not Texas, which was nowhere near. The gunners on board Mongolia had been previously trained aboard Texas.

@daisyviv8385 2 года назад

YAY I love this channel

@campkohler9131 2 года назад

At 00:56 you can see head-on on the bow of the ship some kind of flattening of the edge of the bow just above the wzterline. What is that feature?

@Dumb-Comment 2 года назад

Everyone wants her to be preserved but refused to pay for it.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Like most monuments beyond their prime.

@cabinvibesebaystore8956 2 года назад

New sub! Liked 🙏🙏🤗😮

@jontooke846 2 года назад

That was awesome thanks so much for the history. I have Canadian history so alot of the American I am not that verse on. That is a crazy story

@nickkerr8775 2 года назад

Mexico offered Sinaloa state to Texas as well , but our federal government declined the extra land , because the feds feared that Texas would be to large and have to much power.

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Wow, I had not realized that!

@Foxmccloud69 2 года назад

You for got the aircraft carrier in Corpus Christi

@johnloman2098 2 года назад

The portable dry docks there now the USS Texas will be saved and they filled it with phone and it's going in the dry dock and getting completely re-skinned their website or RU-vid channel I mean is very good and I please anybody who's watching this ought to go and subscribe it helps a lot the ship was going to die in the next couple of years probably if this didn't happen and this community and the government is allowed for it to be saved thank you to all

@matthewpoplawski8740 2 года назад

Need to add that ,just like the Texas, the Yorktown is permanently anchored, and , is LONG OVERDUE for serious repairs. Lack of funding and how to achieve said are the main stumbling blocks.

@fartingpenguin216 2 года назад

The scriptwriter did a great job with his historical knowledge.

@sherirobinson6867 2 года назад

Selma is a great spot to park a boat, drink a beverage and reel in the fish.

@Creppystories123 2 года назад

Its an awesome ship

@rdbjrseattle 2 года назад

First time I noticed she had 5 main battery turrets.

@thomasragan9047 2 года назад

Never heard of the Selma or the USS Westfield.

@shotguner4258 2 года назад

If only Texas had generator to handle power outages during cold temperatures

@rantymcrant-pants9536 2 года назад

To be fair, preparing for snow in a desert is a tough sell...

@jwrailve3615 2 года назад

I’ve seen all of these in the last year, the dreadnaught Texas is filled in with cement as it literally is just sinking itself. Lexington is truly the ghost ship you wanted to be on. And the other smaller cruiser with the sub I’ve only passed it on the Galveston ferry

@QuadinarosLS 2 года назад

Texas is not filled with cement and she is a fully floating vessel. Where did you hear otherwise?

@thewordisgood1544 2 года назад

Battleship Texas at one time had a concrete deck. A big mistake that was removed. She will be going into dry dock later this summer.

@daisyviv8385 2 года назад

Whoever wrote this script knows what they are talking about 10/10💪

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

Agreed!! We have a fantastic team!!

@ITSHISTORY 2 года назад

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