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The USS Texas going to dry dock!

I'll throw this New York - Texas hull section up here. The torpedo blisters were added to Texas in a 1925-27 refit. She was also converted from coal to oil. I think the weights are pounds per square foot as a measure of thickness. 70# would be 1-3/4", 40# is 1", 25# is 5/8". STS is special treatment steel, which is an armor plate alloy that doesn't get the extensive face hardening heat treatment like Class B armor. The armor belt spends weeks in an oven getting face hardened. The outer face is very hard, but brittle, to break the point of an AP shell. The inner face is strong and ductile. It will stretch to absorb the kinetic energy. Not sure on the NS, but I'm thinking it's mild steel.

e.t.a. A link to the booklet of general plans; https://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bb35.pdf
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Considering the shape she's in I'm surprised they're letting the front overhang that much.
 
The stern is fully supported, but at the edge of the dock. The dock used to be big enough for 1000ft cruise ships, but it broke in half trying to lift too heavy of a ship. Gulf Copper bought half as it was going to scrap.

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It's interesting that the rudder is at an angle and is likely not easy to turn at this point. Must have made things interesting for the tugs.
 
Mikel said:
It's interesting that the rudder is at an angle and is likely not easy to turn at this point. Must have made things interesting for the tugs.
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It seized up years ago and started leaking, so it was welded to “seal” it. :homer: That’s why the tugboat was never straight when pulling.
 
Quick & Dirty said:
I'll throw this New York - Texas hull section up here. The torpedo blisters were added to Texas in a 1925-27 refit. She was also converted from coal to oil. I think the weights are pounds per square foot as a measure of thickness. 70# would be 1-3/4", 40# is 1", 25# is 5/8". STS is special treatment steel, which is an armor plate alloy that doesn't get the extensive face hardening heat treatment like Class B armor. The armor belt spends weeks in an oven getting face hardened. The outer face is very hard, but brittle, to break the point of an AP shell. The inner face is strong and ductile. It will stretch to absorb the kinetic energy. Not sure on the NS, but I'm thinking it's mild steel.

e.t.a. A link to the booklet of general plans; https://www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bb35.pdf
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That is correct. 40lb / inch.

NS is nickle steel. Plate thickness without any other info is mild steel.

STS and class B armor are essentially the same. Class A armor is heavily heat treated with the very hard face and ductile inner layer.
 
arse_sidewards said:
Considering the shape she's in I'm surprised they're letting the front overhang that much.
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Fairly little weight forward, and hull is generally heavily framed at the ends due to wave loads. Pretty normal with warships to have limited support at the ends of the hull in dock.

In this case, also obvious that there was going to be overhang one way or the other with the size of the dock. Of the 2 ends, stern is more critical to support, and they've got her as far aft in the dock as she can go (aft keel block is pretty much on the end of the dock).

That's probably right on the edge of the minimum size dock for her. Note that the blocks are pretty shallow - looks like about a 4 ft baseline, which is going to make access to the underside difficult. Dockings that I did used something around 6'6" to allow access. I expect this is due to limited clearances probably because of inadequate water depth to sink the dock any further.

Also, I believe the majority of the structural damage is in the blisters, and overall hull structure is largely ok. Thus, unsupported bow isn't going to be impacted by the deterioration.
 
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Been watching the Battleship New Jersey videos for a couple years.

Would be neat walking around on one of these boats. I've only been on a submarine in Galveston and another in San Francisco. Can't even remember the names anymore, been many years.
 
AKnate said:
Been watching the Battleship New Jersey videos for a couple years.

Would be neat walking around on one of these boats. I've only been on a submarine in Galveston and another in San Francisco. Can't even remember the names anymore, been many years.
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The galveston sub was most likely the USS Cavalla, at Seawolf Park. Also home to the USS Stewart, destroyer escort.
 
Quick & Dirty said:
USS Texas. The wood decking had rotted so concrete was poured in it's place in '68-'69. This accelerated corrosion of the steel deck, so the concrete was removed in 1988.
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Replaced with yellow pine. Original deck was longleaf pine.
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I knew about that, had seen both versions there: just making sure that’s what we were talking about..
 
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