Battleship Texas some pics

[armyjunk2]

Battleship Texas


Prop


looking forward from stern


looking forward from Bridge


aft from bow


14" turrets


loading shell in 14" gun


loading powder in 14" gun


Powder handing for turrets


shell handing for turrets


shell storage


Bridge


after steering


Bomb Grates in Stack


Crews Quarters


Radio Room


Passageway


Throttle


They are redoing the Engineroom what a huge job that will be


Deck Guns

[Old SAR pilot]

Nice pics! Thanks!

[tom d. friedman]

wow that was a nice tour!! i was on a canadian warship museum as a kid, & got into 1 of the gun turrets & was able to traverse it manually with a set of cranks. i was 11 then, i think it was a twin 5 inch gun on a cruiser. it was cool, & a fond memory!!

[Junkyard36]

The Texas is one of my sentimental favorites. Hard to believe that she was launched in 1912 - 96 years ago!

Mike

[Ztex]

Nice photo tour!

I love that ship!

We were there a few weeks ago with the Scout Troop, the engine room was closed because they were painting down there...

[Jack Cook]

Awesome pics!!!
BTW ships don't have props they have screws
Thanks much for sharing!!!!!!

[Sean Curtiss]

From Wikipedia:

A propeller is essentially a type of fan which transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust for propulsion of a vehicle such as an aircraft, ship, or submarine through a fluid such as water or air, by rotating two or more twisted blades about a central shaft, in a manner analogous to rotating a screw through a solid. The blades of a propeller act as rotating wings (the blades of a propeller are in fact wings or airfoils), and produce force through application of both Bernoulli's principle and Newton's third law, generating a difference in pressure between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blades and by accelerating a mass of air rearward.

[Jack Cook]

The first screw propeller to be powered by a gasoline engine, .... through the water (hence the common reference to marine propellers as "screws"

[Sean Curtiss]

So I may say everybody is right!

[Jack Cook]

You were never in the Navy were you

[Sean Curtiss]

Nope!

[Jack Cook]

They beat that stuff into us with a hammer.

[CAPFlyer]

So does that mean that you had that always needed bucket of propwash snuck away in a super-secret compartment Jack?

[Jack Cook]

Our instructor on ship momenclature was a Bos'un.
He also taught the a/c recognition class
Rule of thumb: don't argue with the instructor over his
IDing of a EA-6B has a A-6....right or wrong you're going
to lose!
Jack the sufficently educated

[armyjunk2]

on small boats we always called them props