LaPorte, Texas: Battleship Texas
America's oldest battleship. Tour it before the centennial crowds arrive in 2014. Its lower decks are currently closed -- because it's leaking.Battleship Texas State Historical Site
- Address:
- 3527 Battleground Rd, LaPorte, TX
- Directions:
- Battleship Texas State Historical Site. Highway 134
- Hours:
- Daily 10 am - 5 pm. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 281-479-2431
- Admission:
- Adults (13 and up) $10, Children 12 and under free.
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Battleship Texas The Battleship Texas is the last dreadnought in existence in the world, a veteran of Vera Cruz (1914) and both World Wars, and is credited with the introduction and innovation of advances in gunnery, aviation and radar. Having been designed in the first decade of the 20th century (keel laid in 1911 and completed in 1914), and having seen action in some of the most intense and critical campaigns of WWII, she is an important piece of our naval and maritime history. The Battleship Texas was de-commissioned in 1948.
[Dennis, 07/11/2006]Nearby Offbeat Places
- Tool Box-shaped Building, La Porte, TX - 7 mi.
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Yea, yea, we're sentimental saps for a good old dreadnought. Will future generations feel the same way about a mothballed big box store?