An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting the launching at Norfolk, USA on 28 June of the battleship Texas. Displacement 6.300 ton, horsepower 8.500 ihp and a designed speed of 17 miles. The armament consisted of 2x1-30cm guns fore and aft at star- and port board diagonal placed, the lower parts of the turrets protected by an armoured redoute, 6-15cm guns, 12-6pd quick firing guns, 4-1pd quick firing guns and 4 machineguns. The hull was partially protected by 30cm thick armour.(1)
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1. Building ordered on 3 August 1886, laid don at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia on 1 June 1889, launched by Madge Houston Williams on 28 June 1892, commissioned on 15 August 1895, decommissioned on 11 February 1911, renamed San Marcos on 15 February 1911, stricken on 10 October 1911, sunk while used as a gunnery target on 21-22 March 1912, what remained of her was still used during the Second World War for gun exercises and when she became a navigation danger explosives were used to destroy what was left of her superstructure and her hull remains in the mud off Tangier Sound in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA.
