In May 1919, Texas served as a plane guard and navigational aid for the successful attempt by Navy Curtiss NC flying boat NC-4 to become the first airplane to cross the Atlantic.

Texas and her division mates entered the Firth of Forth on 12 April but got underway again on the 17th to escort a convoy.

The American battleships returned to base on 20 April. In October, she returned to the Mexican coast.

Texas's keel was laid down on 17 April 1911 at Newport News, Virginia. She kept at that task until late 1927, when she did a brief tour of duty in the Pacific from late September-early December.In 1927, Texas set another first with the showing of "talking" pictures for crew entertainment. Later in 1919 Texas's captain, Nathan C. Twining, successfully employed naval aircraft to spot the fall of shells during a main battery exercise.The results were that aircraft-borne gunfire spotters were significantly more accurate than shipboard spotters. During WWI, she spent most of her time with exercieses and patrolling, along with doing a few convoy missions. Through both organizational assignments, her labors were directed primarily to training missions, Midshipman cruises, Naval Reserve drills, and training members of the Fleet Marine Force. WoWS – USS Texas. She returned to Scapa Flow the next day and remained until 8 March, when she put to sea on a convoy escort mission from which she returned on 13 March. While operating in the Atlantic, on 25 November 1924, she sank the incomplete battleship Washington in compliance with the Naval Arms Limitation Treaty of 1922, and later that fall, conducted maneuvers as a unit of the Scouting Fleet. She also mounted four 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes, two on each side of the 2nd Platform at frames 32 and 34.5. Texas began her mission five days after her arrival at Scapa Flow, when she sortied with the entire fleet to reinforce the 4th Battle Squadron, then on duty in the North Sea. When Hurricane Harvey struck Texas this year, much of the area around Houston sustained flooding damage. On 19 April, the crew of Mongolia sighted a surfaced German U-boat and the gun crew trained aboard Texas opened fire on the U-boat averting an attack on Mongolia and firing the first American shots of World War I.In August, she steamed to New York for repairs, arriving at Base 10 on 19 August and entering the New York Navy Yardsoon thereafter. USS Texas, worth it? USS Texas (BB-35), the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Texas, is a New York-class battleship.The ship was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914.

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Mid-January 1918 found the battleship back at New York preparing for the voyage across the Atlantic, including the removal of two more 5 in (130 mm) guns reducing the total number aboard to sixteen. She departed New York on 30 January 1918, arrived at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland on 11 February, and rejoined BatDiv 9, by then known as the 6th Battle Squadron of Britain's Grand Fleet.Texas's service with the Grand Fleet consisted entirely of convoy missions and occasional forays to reinforce the British squadron on blockade duty in the North Sea whenever German heavy units threatened. The warships arrived off Ambrose light station on Christmas Day, 1918, and entered New York the next day.Following overhaul, Texas resumed duty with the Atlantic Fleet early in 1919. Personally I think this is a great opportunity to document this monumental task and i would love to see a good detailed documentary explaining the process and work required. Not escaping this was the battleship USS Texas which is moored along the Buffalo Bayou. In testimony to the Navy General Board, Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Whiting attested that the increase in gunfire effectiveness with air spotting was likely to be as great as 200%. That action was carried out on 21–22 April.Due to the intensity of the situation, Texas put to sea on 13 May and headed directly to operational duty without benefit of the usual shakedown cruise and post-shakedown repair period. These guns can penetrate most targets within two tiers of her. Perhaps Wargaming or some other party can present a series on the Refit In December 1938, Texas received for testing the first shipborne radar designed and made by a commercial company RCA for the US Navy, the 385MHz CXZ.In 1941, Texas was one of fourteen ships to receive the RCA CXAM-1 radar.Sorry about this thing multi-posting. USS Texas. References to specific designs, models, manufacturers, and/or modifications of ships and aircraft are used only for the purpose of historical consistency and do not assume any funding or other involvement in the project on the part of the holders of trademarks. Later that month, Texas became station ship at Tuxpan, a duty that lasted until 4 November, when she steamed for Galveston, Texas.