I've just been rewatching your series on the Battle of Jutland and was struck by how close the fleets came during the night retreat of the High Seas Fleet. If there had been a slight change in course or speed on one or both of them, they could have run head on into each other. Seeing as neither had much preparation for night fighting, how do you see such an encounter playing out?
Were there any battles between the final generation of ships armed with muzzle loading guns? If so, how did it proceed? If not, how might it have gone?
@@kendramalm8811 "Seeing as neither had much preparation for night fighting," Did not High Seas Fleet have a good, practiced, doctrine for night action? Thought they had scared the RN into developing one by being good at it.
@@katana1430 "Were there any battles between the final generation of ships armed with muzzle loading guns?" You mean after the American (un)Civil war, of course.
You mentioned in your video about the Honda point disaster that it was the worst peace time disaster that the US navy suffered from which got me wondering what was the worst peace time disasters from the other major navies?
@@TheCaptainbeefylog I think what appeals to me about it is that it's a vestige of the early days of sail and even tribal war canoes. Sculptures and art have a long history with ship design; the closest thing to it that I'm aware of in the age of modern warships is HMS Dragon, with a large Welsh red dragon painted on the sides of her bow, which is pretty cool.
@@Rdeboer The Red Dragon of Wales is totally cool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Dragon#/media/File:Flag_of_Wales.svg In a similar fashion, the destroyer John Hancock had his ornate signature from the Declaration of Independence painted on her stern www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/usn/USN-1170000/usn-1174373-uss-john-hancock--dd-981-.html
New conspiracy theory: The Maine was sunk by angry Texans because she was bigger than their ship. They had help from West Virginian sympathizers (or where ever her coal was from).
i done ammo handling. the Maine was an embarrassment for the USN, so they blamed spain for their screw up. same happened to a more recent BB, more BS propaganda from the navy in 1992, rather than admit they screwed up.
Ah USS Texas, one of the, more common than you think, cases of a ship being obsolete on completion. Could honestly make a good case for her having been obsolete even as she was being thought up actually..
@@lafeelabriel TBF Dreadnough never saw a major fleet engagement during the war. I'm sure she got plenty of use, but not in the battle line. AND laid down in 1905!
@@peterharrington8709 Exactly. While the shop herself made all ships prior "obsolete", at least in terms of battleships, the naval arms race she sparked off ensured that even herself became outdated by the Battle of Jutland.
@@ironteacup2569 💯 Technologically speaking it's probably my favorite time period to study. Between the end of the US Civil War and the end of the 1930s is a very interesting time in the world.
So having the turrets at the front and the stern would only allow a single gun to fired forward or backwards, so they went with a design that meant in practice they could fire... no guns forward or backwards?
To be fair, they weren't the only navy to find out the hard way that en echelon turrets don't work. At least they didn't continue to try to force them to work, unlike some other navies...
I mean, they can fire fore and aft, you just have to swing the ship back and forth a little. Certainly a lot less than with normal turret arrangements. Cross deck turret setup like this also means you can concentrate all your armour in the middle, instead of extending it out closer to the ends, the only real advantage to this type of layout.
And only 15 years removed from _Dreadnought._ Someone could hypothetically have enlisted during the Civil War and fought on a sailing ship and then served long enough to command a squadron of Standard class battleships during World War I. The speed of change during that period was crazy, unlike anything seen before or since.
Just as crazy in the other direction. By 1922, the HMS Hood was the pinnacle of capital ship design and the Lexington Class was being redesigned into aircraft carriers.
@@Ralph-yn3gr There is film of Civil War vets in WWII victory parades. Guys that served when some troops still had old flintlocks who lived long enough to see jet fighters and nuclear weapons.
@@RCAvhstape Wow. I'd seen film of some Confederation veterans in the 1930s, but I didn't know any survived beyond World War II. They'd have to be as old as WWII veterans are today.
@@Ralph-yn3gr I believe they were drummer boys or really young guys who lied about their ages to serve late in the Civil War, and basically about a hundred at the end of WWII.
An important step forward for the US Navy. Always found it rather amusing that she was faster than USS _Maine,_ given that _Maine_ was originally classified as a cruiser.
Not sure if this is correct, but I remember reading once, that the wreck of the San Marcos aka 1st Texas actually managed to sink a ship that ran into it and that was why they demolished the uper parts of the ship in 49. Not sure if that is true or not though.
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was not so much a battle as it was a one sided massacre of an insanely courageous, but technologically inferior Spanish squadron…. So much so that at one point, the Texas’ Captain, Jack Phillips, ordered his men to stop cheering their own success, shouting “Don’t cheer boys, those poor fellows are dying”. As soon as the Spanish ceased firing, Texas and the other ships immediately tried to rescue as many Spanish sailors as they could. Admiral Pascual de Cervera was rescued by a boat from USS Iowa, and brought aboard with full honors, Captain Robley Evans returning Cerveras sword to him, and treating him as an honored guest. Shortly after returning to Spain, it was learned that Cervera was facing a court martial, so a southern newspaper began a fund-raising campaign to buy Cervera a house in Florida, and thousands of Americans contributed, hoping to give the noble old sailor a peaceful retirement. I guess we were just better people back then…..
For those unfamiliar with the little state of Texas, San Marcos is a small town and county seat about half way between Austin and San Antonio. And by small in the 1910's I mean wide spot in the road. Parental unit was stationed at the air base outside of town in the '50's.
If any ship design screamed out for a decent secondary armament it’s this class. In the spot of where we’d expect the mains to be ie front and back I think this class could have used a pair of 8 inch guns or at least singles. As it is calling them second class battle ships says more about their capabilities than I am sure the designers would want. Second Rate works well too.
So the USN: 1) Experiments with en-echelon guns in the Maine and Texas. 2) Experiments with dual-stacked turrets in the Kearsarge and Virginia classes. 3) So by the dreadnought era they have super firing center line turrets in all ships. 4) Doesn't lay down any battlecruisers until they will be cancelled by the Washington treaty. (and honestly, if you were designing an aircraft carrier in 1916 wouldn't. you want Lexington and Saratoga?) So ... just a coincidence? or a time-traveler?
*Texas* gave as much in her use as a target as she did in active service. The US Navy did extensive examinations of the shell damages and then came up with "all or nothing armor". Unfortunately, 2nd *Texas* was the last US battleship to have mixed armor thickness. The *Nevada* class benefitted from the lessons of 1st *Texas.*
As a proud native of Maine, former professional mariner, and Mandan enthusiast, I must protest your completely factual denigration of the Mighty Maine. If only I hadn't fallen behind on The Drydock I would have known when your America trip was and I could have met you aboard USS Massachusetts (like I was going to 2 gorram years ago) and sarcastically confronted you on this issue of honor!
4:40 For a moment we had another Warspite'ian attraction to other objects on our hands *XD* . Would be appropriate though, as the next USS Texas is a contemporary of said Super-Dreadnought :D .
A fascinating period for many reasons. One, to be sure, the rapid pace of technology, tactics and planned obsolescence. Another the relatively toytown size of capital ships, soon to be dwarfed by the final predreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, superdreadnoughts, and fast battleships in turn. And now essentially smaller than frigates of today. The third for me is the sudden recognition by the US that its navy had shrunk and obsolesced to the point of essentially nothing, and its industry was not capable of reversing that very fast, and by the turn of the century both the US navy and US industry were contending for top positions. And people say China's transformation is unprecedented.
a ship with many flaws, but far better than obsolete monitors .he set the beginning of the renewal of the US Navy, and this is the most important thing.
She truly was made for war, not peace. USS Texas before the war: "Halp! I'm sinking again!" USS Texas in the war: "Everything is fine!" USS Texas after the war: "I'm in danger"
The number of ship designers who struggled with the idea that a muzzle blast is basically a HE round going off at the tip of the barrel and thus leading to limiting the firing arcs so as to not blow apart your own superstructure never ceases to amaze me. How tf do you miss the concept that the giant fireball that appears when the gun fires might be something you need to take into consideration?
Been going down hour length and longer Drach Wormholes lately. Refreshing to see a "5 Minute" Guide for my Saturday morning coffee. Delightful LOL. Nice episode. Was always interested in this oddly designed ship. The USN had to start somewhere, I suppose, in catching up with the rest of the world.
Please talk about the torpedo tubes that seem to always be mounted on old ships like this, one per side. How were the torpedoes? Where they effective? What success did they have? etc.
They don't get much mention because in practice nobody wanted to get close enough (late 1800s torpedos were QUITE short range) AND then to manually line up the ship with it's target (we're predates gyro steering), so to my knowledge no capital ship of this era ever sank another ship with it's torpedos. Dedicated torpedo boats of this time had to be very fast and very maneuverable. As much as anything else the torpedoes were a threat to ships that might try to get extremely close and ram or board.
Saturday morning coffee and Drachinifel ... a good combination. Are we sure that the company that built the first Texas has no connection to the current Evergreen company and its ships' ability to firmly put themselves aground?
An other small pre-dreadnought, right after Gangut! Lovely, more videos on late 19th century ships would be perfect. Proposition: British Admiral class (not the battlecruisers, the 19th century ones).
Reach, please do a long episode covering the Royal Navy’s shore actions like Marine raiding, cutting out parties and so forth during the French Revolutionary And Napoleons War. You haven’t finished the Nelson series so this would be a good half measure.
A short summary if I may. Right lads, we'll lower the boats and then row in, quietly, at night, while armed to the teeth. When we get to the French ship we'll sneak aboard, kill anyone who objects and then sail off with it. Any questions? That said, it would make a nice episode 🙂
A very interesting design. You can see the priorities and how fiscal limitations forced innovation. It may have been innovation that didn’t work out, but they tried hard.
So, about the North American tour.... I can't seem to find the info on dates and locations of the meet-n-greets. What's the story with the Philly leg of the tour?
Your achievement is outstanding, and you stand head and shoulders above the rest. Keep on growing, keep on achieving. I believe in you and the incredible things in store for your future. Congratulations.
@@adamalton2436 Absolutely, it's called trial and error. Might not be the most efficient method but eventually you'll get there. Look at cannon, in Western Europe you'll see them showing up in the 14th century as siege weapons to bring down castle walls. Encircle the castle, bring up the guns, emplace them. Load gun with gunpowder (having thoroughly stirred it first), then a huge iron bolt, then pack the muzzle with clay to confine the blast. Wait for the clay to dry off, then fire the gun. BOOM. Rate of fire measured in rounds per day. A few centuries later and we had cannon you could tow into battle behind horses, deploy, and have rates of fire you could measure in rounds per hour, with the added benefit that they were unlikely to blow up in your face. Progress :-)
Always a tension at that time between fighting utility and thé spirit of retrenchment and sparing of thé Congress, in utter contrast with the lavish military spending of the United States since the days of Ronald Reagan at least. The American budgets for warfare generally outreach those of the other 4 permanent members of the UN Security Council by a great margin.
Pinned post for Q&A :)
I've just been rewatching your series on the Battle of Jutland and was struck by how close the fleets came during the night retreat of the High Seas Fleet. If there had been a slight change in course or speed on one or both of them, they could have run head on into each other. Seeing as neither had much preparation for night fighting, how do you see such an encounter playing out?
Were there any battles between the final generation of ships armed with muzzle loading guns? If so, how did it proceed? If not, how might it have gone?
@@kendramalm8811 "Seeing as neither had much preparation for night fighting,"
Did not High Seas Fleet have a good, practiced, doctrine for night action? Thought they had scared the RN into developing one by being good at it.
@@katana1430 "Were there any battles between the final generation of ships armed with muzzle loading guns?"
You mean after the American (un)Civil war, of course.
You mentioned in your video about the Honda point disaster that it was the worst peace time disaster that the US navy suffered from which got me wondering what was the worst peace time disasters from the other major navies?
USS Texas (BB-35) "COME ON TEXAS!"
USS Texas (1892) "Oh, come on!"
Naming a ship with that few guns Texas, subverts expectations.
Muricans...
This ship was built during a time before the US had more than enough guns to arm every person, cat, dog, and hamster in the country.
they made up for it with the next one
The USN was still mad at Texas over the whole Civil war thing, so we’re happy to give the name to a dwarf battle ship in spite.
@@Neithan02
Texans*
I like the ornate bow decorations that ships of that era had.
It's similar, to me at least, of the Imperial Crest of Chrysanthemum as the bow crest of major units of the IJN.
@@TheCaptainbeefylog I think what appeals to me about it is that it's a vestige of the early days of sail and even tribal war canoes. Sculptures and art have a long history with ship design; the closest thing to it that I'm aware of in the age of modern warships is HMS Dragon, with a large Welsh red dragon painted on the sides of her bow, which is pretty cool.
To bad that era was a gone
@Wolfman yep
@@Rdeboer The Red Dragon of Wales is totally cool. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Dragon#/media/File:Flag_of_Wales.svg
In a similar fashion, the destroyer John Hancock had his ornate signature from the Declaration of Independence painted on her stern www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/usn/USN-1170000/usn-1174373-uss-john-hancock--dd-981-.html
New conspiracy theory: The Maine was sunk by angry Texans because she was bigger than their ship. They had help from West Virginian sympathizers (or where ever her coal was from).
Wouldn't put it past them. If they could give Alaska back to the Russians so they could be biggest again those nutters would do it in a heartbeat.
That’s not our style. Like the San Jacinto monument, as compared to the Washington Monument, we would have just built our own, slightly larger, ship.
i done ammo handling. the Maine was an embarrassment for the USN, so they blamed spain for their screw up. same happened to a more recent BB, more BS propaganda from the navy in 1992, rather than admit they screwed up.
@@em1osmurf don't forget 1989 too
Thanks for the laugh! Hi to the lone star state people!
USS Texas, the battleship that really really really wanted to be the first land going warship.
Someone has to chase down those desert-sailing Japanese torpedo boats
*snort*
@@species3167 Kamchatka's nightmare
I love the late 1800s stuff. Designs trying to figure out new technology/design concepts are always fun.
Ah USS Texas, one of the, more common than you think, cases of a ship being obsolete on completion.
Could honestly make a good case for her having been obsolete even as she was being thought up actually..
USS Texas "because obsolescence isn't a state yet".
Wasn't pretty much EVERY ship laid down in the late 1800s/early 1900s obsolete by the time it was launched?
@@yes_head Pretty much, apart from HMS Dreadnought.
@@lafeelabriel TBF Dreadnough never saw a major fleet engagement during the war. I'm sure she got plenty of use, but not in the battle line. AND laid down in 1905!
@@peterharrington8709 Exactly.
While the shop herself made all ships prior "obsolete", at least in terms of battleships, the naval arms race she sparked off ensured that even herself became outdated by the Battle of Jutland.
Yes I've been waiting for this. We definitely need an extended version! Please do other 1890s vessels.
It’s such a mysterious time to me with naval history and kind of a lot of history in general
@@ironteacup2569 💯 Technologically speaking it's probably my favorite time period to study. Between the end of the US Civil War and the end of the 1930s is a very interesting time in the world.
Definately! The Majestics would make a fantastic addition
I kinda wish the pace of technological change had slowed in that period. Such glorious vessels deserved to rule the waves for a century or more.
@@mastathrash5609 Basically the traumatic birthing period of the modern world.
So having the turrets at the front and the stern would only allow a single gun to fired forward or backwards, so they went with a design that meant in practice they could fire... no guns forward or backwards?
Not to mention that a single gun fore/backwards would mean a 2 gun broadside
To be fair, they weren't the only navy to find out the hard way that en echelon turrets don't work. At least they didn't continue to try to force them to work, unlike some other navies...
I mean, they can fire fore and aft, you just have to swing the ship back and forth a little. Certainly a lot less than with normal turret arrangements.
Cross deck turret setup like this also means you can concentrate all your armour in the middle, instead of extending it out closer to the ends, the only real advantage to this type of layout.
@@DAKOTA56777 That, and echeloned turrets look cool. And it's always important for your ships to look cool.
@@RCAvhstape Indeed, quite right. _Texas_ is a really neat looking ship, being so small yet so dense in the middle.
It's crazy to think that she is only 30 years removed from the ironclads. Such a huge leap forward in technology.
And only 15 years removed from _Dreadnought._ Someone could hypothetically have enlisted during the Civil War and fought on a sailing ship and then served long enough to command a squadron of Standard class battleships during World War I. The speed of change during that period was crazy, unlike anything seen before or since.
Just as crazy in the other direction. By 1922, the HMS Hood was the pinnacle of capital ship design and the Lexington Class was being redesigned into aircraft carriers.
@@Ralph-yn3gr There is film of Civil War vets in WWII victory parades. Guys that served when some troops still had old flintlocks who lived long enough to see jet fighters and nuclear weapons.
@@RCAvhstape Wow. I'd seen film of some Confederation veterans in the 1930s, but I didn't know any survived beyond World War II. They'd have to be as old as WWII veterans are today.
@@Ralph-yn3gr I believe they were drummer boys or really young guys who lied about their ages to serve late in the Civil War, and basically about a hundred at the end of WWII.
An important step forward for the US Navy. Always found it rather amusing that she was faster than USS _Maine,_ given that _Maine_ was originally classified as a cruiser.
Not sure if this is correct, but I remember reading once, that the wreck of the San Marcos aka 1st Texas actually managed to sink a ship that ran into it and that was why they demolished the uper parts of the ship in 49. Not sure if that is true or not though.
'Tis.
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was not so much a battle as it was a one sided massacre of an insanely courageous, but technologically inferior Spanish squadron…. So much so that at one point, the Texas’ Captain, Jack Phillips, ordered his men to stop cheering their own success, shouting “Don’t cheer boys, those poor fellows are dying”. As soon as the Spanish ceased firing, Texas and the other ships immediately tried to rescue as many Spanish sailors as they could. Admiral Pascual de Cervera was rescued by a boat from USS Iowa, and brought aboard with full honors, Captain Robley Evans returning Cerveras sword to him, and treating him as an honored guest. Shortly after returning to Spain, it was learned that Cervera was facing a court martial, so a southern newspaper began a fund-raising campaign to buy Cervera a house in Florida, and thousands of Americans contributed, hoping to give the noble old sailor a peaceful retirement.
I guess we were just better people back then…..
Always glad to hear that Texas is still around today. Bb35 that is
Great to see an article about a boat named after one of our smaller States.
For those unfamiliar with the little state of Texas, San Marcos is a small town and county seat about half way between Austin and San Antonio. And by small in the 1910's I mean wide spot in the road. Parental unit was stationed at the air base outside of town in the '50's.
Texas has a lot of towns that are still like that today.
If any ship design screamed out for a decent secondary armament it’s this class. In the spot of where we’d expect the mains to be ie front and back I think this class could have used a pair of 8 inch guns or at least singles. As it is calling them second class battle ships says more about their capabilities than I am sure the designers would want. Second Rate works well too.
So the USN:
1) Experiments with en-echelon guns in the Maine and Texas.
2) Experiments with dual-stacked turrets in the Kearsarge and Virginia classes.
3) So by the dreadnought era they have super firing center line turrets in all ships.
4) Doesn't lay down any battlecruisers until they will be cancelled by the Washington treaty. (and honestly, if you were designing an aircraft carrier in 1916 wouldn't. you want Lexington and Saratoga?)
So ... just a coincidence? or a time-traveler?
This version of the Texas was sunk in the Chesapeake Bay right outside of my house I have been to it the wreck site at least Numerous times
*Texas* gave as much in her use as a target as she did in active service. The US Navy did extensive examinations of the shell damages and then came up with "all or nothing armor". Unfortunately, 2nd *Texas* was the last US battleship to have mixed armor thickness. The *Nevada* class benefitted from the lessons of 1st *Texas.*
As a proud native of Maine, former professional mariner, and Mandan enthusiast, I must protest your completely factual denigration of the Mighty Maine. If only I hadn't fallen behind on The Drydock I would have known when your America trip was and I could have met you aboard USS Massachusetts (like I was going to 2 gorram years ago) and sarcastically confronted you on this issue of honor!
Lol
You get a like for your parenthetical Firefly reference...
@CipiRipi00 No this is a sarcastic matter of honor, not a serious one.
If memory serves me right, in Norfolk there is a slab of side armor from Texas and maybe an anchor? It's been a handful of years back by now
4:40 For a moment we had another Warspite'ian attraction to other objects on our hands *XD* .
Would be appropriate though, as the next USS Texas is a contemporary of said Super-Dreadnought :D .
The US Navy has a proud tradition of running around in its own home waters. XD
So I have observed XD
A fascinating period for many reasons. One, to be sure, the rapid pace of technology, tactics and planned obsolescence. Another the relatively toytown size of capital ships, soon to be dwarfed by the final predreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, superdreadnoughts, and fast battleships in turn. And now essentially smaller than frigates of today. The third for me is the sudden recognition by the US that its navy had shrunk and obsolesced to the point of essentially nothing, and its industry was not capable of reversing that very fast, and by the turn of the century both the US navy and US industry were contending for top positions. And people say China's transformation is unprecedented.
a ship with many flaws, but far better than obsolete monitors .he set the beginning of the renewal of the US Navy, and this is the most important thing.
She truly was made for war, not peace.
USS Texas before the war: "Halp! I'm sinking again!"
USS Texas in the war: "Everything is fine!"
USS Texas after the war: "I'm in danger"
The number of ship designers who struggled with the idea that a muzzle blast is basically a HE round going off at the tip of the barrel and thus leading to limiting the firing arcs so as to not blow apart your own superstructure never ceases to amaze me.
How tf do you miss the concept that the giant fireball that appears when the gun fires might be something you need to take into consideration?
Fun personal note: not only is Texas my home state, San Marcos is my home town. Go Bobcats! So little extra special connection.
San Mo is absolutely gorgeous, I miss living the Hill Country. The river is just amazing.
For those wondering, San Marcos is a small town in Central Texas between San Antonio and Austin. Only known now for being a college town party school.
Thanks you for showcasing the Old Hoodoo.
Really makes you think about how old the USS Texas we still have around today is
I would love to see a guide to the USS Arkansas!!!
AMAZING that the USN actually floated a BB in the 19th century. i been educamated. ty.
Thank You
Been going down hour length and longer Drach Wormholes lately. Refreshing to see a "5 Minute" Guide for my Saturday morning coffee. Delightful LOL. Nice episode. Was always interested in this oddly designed ship. The USN had to start somewhere, I suppose, in catching up with the rest of the world.
Please talk about the torpedo tubes that seem to always be mounted on old ships like this, one per side. How were the torpedoes? Where they effective? What success did they have? etc.
They don't get much mention because in practice nobody wanted to get close enough (late 1800s torpedos were QUITE short range) AND then to manually line up the ship with it's target (we're predates gyro steering), so to my knowledge no capital ship of this era ever sank another ship with it's torpedos. Dedicated torpedo boats of this time had to be very fast and very maneuverable. As much as anything else the torpedoes were a threat to ships that might try to get extremely close and ram or board.
Cute ship. Not much of a naval vessel, but cute. Can't wait to hear the review of the USS Maine. Thank you Drach.
Boxer Rebellion video soon, hopefully?
Neat moment to feature 8 major navies, marines, sailors, and the Battle of Taku Forts.
Thanks for sharing!
Her bell was still on display until recently on USS Texas Circa 1912
I do love ironclads and predreadnoughts and dreadnoughts of course.
May stop by to say high on the BB NJ this Thursday.
Great work Sir thank you
Solid content.
Seems the ship wanted to be a tank. A BIG tank.
A PzKpfw XXVII, to be precise :)
Saturday morning coffee and Drachinifel ... a good combination.
Are we sure that the company that built the first Texas has no connection to the current Evergreen company and its ships' ability to firmly put themselves aground?
An other small pre-dreadnought, right after Gangut! Lovely, more videos on late 19th century ships would be perfect. Proposition: British Admiral class (not the battlecruisers, the 19th century ones).
Not bad for being designed by the inexperienced to an overly tight budget.
Reach, please do a long episode covering the Royal Navy’s shore actions like Marine raiding, cutting out parties and so forth during the French Revolutionary And Napoleons War. You haven’t finished the Nelson series so this would be a good half measure.
A short summary if I may.
Right lads, we'll lower the boats and then row in, quietly, at night, while armed to the teeth. When we get to the French ship we'll sneak aboard, kill anyone who objects and then sail off with it. Any questions?
That said, it would make a nice episode 🙂
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 "If I fall, Smith shall take the lead."
Why has the wreck been overlooked by the scrap iron vultures?
love you vids !!!
A very interesting design. You can see the priorities and how fiscal limitations forced innovation. It may have been innovation that didn’t work out, but they tried hard.
Ran aground . . . while at anchor.
How about the “Laffey” DD. 724 nice war record.
Seams like you would have done this vid years ago. -Edit: Oh THAT Texas.
This is the Texas Texans don't like to talk about.
What WERE the "designers" ingesting before "designing" that "ship"?
Do you have a Guide for the Armored cruisers Brooklyn and New York coming
Some ships are not meant to be floating museums. At least they didn't scrimp on the bow ornamentation.
Mounted fore and aft, the guns would have had considerably more overlap in field of fire.
They weren't the most fearsome battleships ever, but the industry had to start somewhere. They'd be OK-ish for coastal defense.
It lies just nearby Tangier Island.
Last time I was this early this was uss texas
USS Texas: "Grandpa!"
Old Hoodoo? I think this ship had a reputation for bad luck. Also wasn't its speed in Cuba a factor? Running down the fleeing Spanish Armada?
From small things do
Congress was enthusiasm about defending the coast, but not about paying for it
Reminds me of the poor Deutschland class of 1907 being obsolete even before completion thanks to Dreadnaught.
The first in a tradition
Ah the ship named after my home state.
General Kenobi was Texan? Who knew
Kenobi the Texan. Oh boy Grievous would be real dead.
Didn't think a Texan would complain about blasters being uncivilised.
So, about the North American tour....
I can't seem to find the info on dates and locations of the meet-n-greets.
What's the story with the Philly leg of the tour?
Wed Thur and Fri, Olympia, NJ, and NJ. Around 2pm near aft turret.
USS Terror please
The ship so big she could be a country on her own!
Interesting, a “battleship” that could be outfought by a small interwar cruiser
The original Big Iron
Finally first after 3 years of trying.
Lol nice what time is it for you?
Your achievement is outstanding, and you stand head and shoulders above the rest. Keep on growing, keep on achieving. I believe in you and the incredible things in store for your future. Congratulations.
There's only 52 weeks in a year.....
Me hears USS Maine, my thought is boom.
Ran aground, sank in port, and ran aground.
I hear the baron from Monty Python talking about building the castle that sank into a swamp…
Ah, but if you keep building castles eventually one stays up.
@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 so if you keep building battleships will one eventually float? Lol
@@adamalton2436 Absolutely, it's called trial and error. Might not be the most efficient method but eventually you'll get there. Look at cannon, in Western Europe you'll see them showing up in the 14th century as siege weapons to bring down castle walls. Encircle the castle, bring up the guns, emplace them. Load gun with gunpowder (having thoroughly stirred it first), then a huge iron bolt, then pack the muzzle with clay to confine the blast. Wait for the clay to dry off, then fire the gun. BOOM. Rate of fire measured in rounds per day. A few centuries later and we had cannon you could tow into battle behind horses, deploy, and have rates of fire you could measure in rounds per hour, with the added benefit that they were unlikely to blow up in your face. Progress :-)
Pronunciation of the Brazilian ship is something like Ree-ah-shoo-eh-low
Always a tension at that time between fighting utility and thé spirit of retrenchment and sparing of thé Congress, in utter contrast with the lavish military spending of the United States since the days of Ronald Reagan at least. The American budgets for warfare generally outreach those of the other 4 permanent members of the UN Security Council by a great margin.
Where is that wreak located?
Inglorious end. 😟
CSS Texas was taken over by the USN. Wouldn't that make this USS Texas the second ship to bear the name USS Texas?
Interesting
It looks like an experimental design. Wouldn't be the first, and also not the first to be pretty useless aside from learning lessons.
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Well she was less obsolete than her Spanish opposition.
Let me guess, her nickname was Ground Round.
What's the ship at 0:52?
USS Puritan
It's the monitor Puritan (1896).
www.navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_mon_puritan.htm
...or at least, that's what she's claiming to be :3
@@Drachinifel Damn those are massive guns for such a small ship
@@Drachinifel thank you very much. Isin't that the ship that the US navy trolled by "rebuilding" aka making a whole new ship with the same name.
The US Congress, some things never change.
Who are these tools that gave this vid a thumbs down?
“En Echelon.”
Didn't know the Texas was that old lmao
Fast as F Boii
ah the terrible one not the one that we kept for maybe a little too long
Known as "Old Hoodoo".
And these echelon-turreted hogs were all Brit-derived designs (another method of playing catch-up); Maine was prettier.
Disappointing they didn't make it Texas like 200% larger than every ship in the fleet/s
Remember the main remember the Texas I am sure the Spanish do