Dreadnought Preservation
The U.S.S. Texas

The Texas which survives today should not be confused with it's predecessor of the same name, the 2nd class Battleship U.S.S. Texas which saw service in the Spanish American War and was definitely a Pre-Dreadnought.

NavSource Online has some great pictures and links of the Texas. Of particular interest are their series of high resolution pictures taken in 2002.

To assist with the ongoing preservation effort for the U.S.S. Texas, please visit the informative Battleship Texas Foundation web site. Specifically, see their How You Can Help page for membership and contribution information.

For photos of the Texas' participation in World War II, be sure to visit Steve Belanger's U.S.S. Texas (BB 35) page.

See also Charles Moore's excellent page on the U.S.S. Texas and LDJ Trust's page on the significance of the Texas.

There are two great books on the U.S.S. Texas available from Amazon.com:

• Battleship Texas 
  A book by Hugh Power.
• Historic Battleship Texas 
  A book by John C. Ferguson.

Note on the Goeben: The Turkish Battlecruiser Yavuz - formerly and more famously the German Goeben of the First World War - avoided the ship breakers until 1971. The Goeben was thus, I believe, the second to the last Dreadnought in existence. (There is an excellent book called The Ship That Changed The World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914, a book by Dan Van der Vat which tells the story of this ship's exploits.