USS Texas (BB-35) is a New York class battleship and the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the 28th state. She was laid down on April 17, 1911 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on May 18, 1912; and commissioned on March 12, 1914.

On March 24, 1914, Texas departed the Norfolk Navy Yard and set a course for New York. She made an overnight stop at Tompkinsville, New York on March 26 and entered the New York Navy Yard the following day. She spent the next three weeks there undergoing the installation of the fire control equipment. Regular operations with the Atlantic Fleet began in the middle of the year and continued to January 1918. She then crossed the ocean to join the Grand Fleet in the North Sea, where she remained until the end of World War I.

In 1925, Texas underwent a major modernization, receiving new oil-fired boilers and many improvements to her combat systems. Following that overhaul, she resumed duty along the eastern seaboard and kept at that task until late in 1927, when she did a brief tour of duty in the Pacific between late September and early December. In April 1930, she took time from her operating schedule to escort SS Leviathan into New York when that ship returned from Europe carrying the delegation that had represented the United States at the London Naval Conference.

In the summer of 1937, Texas was reassigned to the east coast, as the flagship of the Training Detachment, United States Fleet. Late in 1938 or early in 1939, she became flagship of the newly organized Atlantic Squadron. 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. During October and November 1942, she provided heavy gunfire support during the invasion of North Africa.

From March to May 1945, as part of the Iwo Jima invasion, Texas operated off Okinawa, firing her guns against Japanese positions and helping fight off suicide plane attacks. She left the Western Pacific in late September and spent the next three months transporting veterans home. She was decommissioned on April 21, 1948 and became the first battleship memorial museum in the US. Texas earned five battle stars for service in World War II.

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