The USS Texas (BB-35) Has Found a New Home! | War History Online

The battleship USS Texas (BB-35) has finally found its home in Galveston | Naval History Central

The museum battleship USS Texas is being restored to her 1945 condition. The former USS Texas (BB 35) was commissioned March 12, 1914 and decommissioned April 21, 1948. The battleship saw action in World War I and World War II. Compartments of this museum ship have been featured in several Hollywood movies including "Pearl Harbor" and "Flags of Our Fathers." USS Texas, the only American battleship from World War I still in existence, has been dry docked for the first time in over 30 years. #fbli

The USS Texas (BB-35) is a historic New York-class battleship, commissioned in 1914, famous as the only surviving U.S. battleship to have served in both World Wars, a National Historic Landmark, and the first battleship memorial museum. Nicknamed "The Fighting Texas," she was a technological marvel, pioneering anti-aircraft guns, naval aviation, and radar, providing crucial naval gunfire support in major WWII campaigns like D-Day and Okinawa before becoming a museum ship in Texas in 1948. - The