@lindseycolleyhotm: The ship on top is the USS Constitution, a wooden warship launched in 1797. But the steel battleship on the bottom is old too. The USS Texas was commissioned in 1914, just months before World War I broke out in Europe. She went on to serve in both world wars. During World War II, she fired on German defenses at D-Day and later supported the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in the Pacific. In 1948, the Navy handed the ship over to the State of Texas. She became a museum and memorial at the San Jacinto Battleground near Houston, where she stayed for more than 70 years. All that time in the water took a toll. In August 2022, the Texas was towed to a shipyard in Galveston for major repairs. Crews replaced about 700 tons of hull steel and repainted her in the camouflage she wore in the Pacific in 1945. When the work is done, she’ll reopen as a museum in Galveston, with a grand reopening targeted for 2027. Added fact: The USS Texas is the last surviving dreadnought-era battleship in the world.

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Wednesday 14 October 2026 18:03:10 GMT