Key Points – The USS Texas (BB-35), a New York-class battleship serving in both World War I and World War II, was once dubbed ...

A few years after its maiden voyage, the Texas became one of the first U.S. battleships to be equipped with antiaircraft guns, as well as to launch a plane and to test a novel device called radar.

The Battleship Texas, or BB-35 ... Local beekeeper Sean Kennedy removes two sizable colonies from the ship's radar tower and an aft crane, getting stung 27 times. "I have to count as I go ...

Edward Reichert stepped aboard the USS Texas on Saturday and, for a moment, he was once again a twentysomething sailor, serving his country in a battleship radar room during World War II.

The Battleship. After over two decades at its ... Workers recently removed the ship's mast and radar array, granting just enough space - about five to 10 feet of clearance - to squeeze the vessel ...

"This space has been recently reconstructed and restored," said ship experience coordinator Hunter Miertschin onboard Battleship Texas. This is the first time the Battleship Texas Foundation has ...

the Battleship TEXAS is credited with the introduction and innovation of advances in gunnery, aviation, and radar. She is the last surviving Dreadnought as well as the only battleship in existence ...

In order for the battleship to fit under the Walt Whitman Bridge, they had to remove the mast and radar from the top of the ship. "Even now at high tide we are about 11 to 16 feet clearing of the ...