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Posted by Ralph Wood on June 29, 2024, 13:50:01, in reply to "Re: Time for the USN to step forward"
Quote: "Battleship Texas is owned by the State of Texas. Between 1946 and 1948, legislation was passed at the state and federal levels to allow the US Navy to donate Battleship Texas to the State of Texas to be operated as a museum and memorial.Apr 15, 2024
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That's why. Unless you can convince the owner (the State of Texas) that they should put the ship in Hawaii, it's not going to Pearl...
(I would also question its ability to make the journey. I suspect it would sink under tow. It has to "get around the continent," either through Panama or the Horn, then out across the Pacific. Not a small trip.) 
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Why cant she go out to "Pearl" like the Missouri?? I'm building the trumpy Texas, it would be sad to see her scrapped. Back in the Day they Scrapped the sister ship to titanic too, "Olympic" an almost identical twin! just think if she was sitting in long beach??? as they say, hindsight is always 20/20 Previous Message
Apparently, the USN does not want to do right by two of the three surviving significant ships of the gun era. The Navy does right by USS Constitution, but why are Olympia and Texas verging upon becoming orphans of the community support system? The matter is not how Texas fits with businesses and the scenery, the matter is that Texas is our last WWI-era super dreadnought, the last survivor of the great fleet we built from the Michigans to the 1920 Washingtons. This was the first wave of the Two-Ocean Navy of 1940. Her nearest relation is Olympia, not aircraft carriers, or WWII-built battleships.
Olympia and Texas are too important to have their fates defined by restaurant proprietors, and tourist centers.Olympia and Texas should be safely moored or dry docked in a naval base, like USS Constitution. The way things are going, they'll end up being scraped, which would be quite a judgment on how the USN guards its artifacts. Congress, the USN, and the people need to save these ships. Are we so stupid we do not see the importance of preserving them? Do we need Vietnam-era aircraft carriers in every big port? Is carrier aviation the only naval history we wish to preserve? Granted, the civvies are impressed by anything huge, and Texas and Olympia, are not huge. The public loves the Constitution, I think the Navy ought to do a sales job on Olympia and Texas like they did on our first frigates when I was a boy (50s and 60s).
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