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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Battleship Texas has massive leak
2012-06-15
The battleship where the young tourists roam became flooded over the weekend. Staff arrived Saturday and immediately noticed something was wrong with the ship that fought in World Wars I and II and has served since 1948 as a memorial and museum to those who sacrificed their lives.

The vessel was sitting awkwardly in its slip. She was lower in the water and listing to the left.

"We got down to the lower portions of the ship and discovered that we had taken on more water than usual in areas that we normally don't," ship manager Andy Smith said. "They started pumping throughout the day Saturday, and it got progressively worse."

The situation was so dire by Sunday that the ship's caretaker, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, had to find more pumps to help remove the water. Smith said the news got worse on Monday.
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Posted by:gorb

#4  USS NEW YORK

USS WYOMING

USS ARKANSAS

My mom's older brother, my Uncle Pete, was on the USS NEVADA on 12/7/1941 - he has since passed on. IIRC my father's father Mariano served aboard the USS NEW YORK in WW1, when the ship was wid the Atlantic Fleet.

BATTLESHIPS IS JUST SO COOL.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-15 20:26  

#3  Ship featured prominently in "The Ayes of Texas" by Daniel DaCruz...
Posted by: mojo   2012-06-15 10:44  

#2  The "Alabama" is moored in Mobile, actually she's resting on the bottom, and probably not floating, yep she's old too.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-06-15 08:48  

#1  ..Keep in mind that the Lone Star Battlewagon has just turned 100. The state wants to build a concrete drydock for her, but they're dawdling - let me urge our Texan 'Burgers to please jump all over their elected representatives to get the job done, and quickly - unlike the other BB museums, Texas is too old and fragile to be towed anywhere for permanent repairs and they will have to hold off until the drydock is done.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2012-06-15 05:55  

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