USS Texas is a New York class dreadnought battleship laid down in 1911, and comissioned in 1914. Texas served during the "Tampico incident" and in actions in veracruz. She was involved in many sorties during WW1. In 1925-6, Texas was modernised, which added catapults, removed cage masts, added an anti torpedo bulge, and changed much of the superstructure.


During the inter war period, Texas served as a flagship, and also had a notable number of firsts:
- The first battleship in the us navy to launch a plane from a catapult
- the first battleship in the us navy to mount anti aircraft weapons
- the first us navy battleship to use gunfire directors
- one of the first ships to recieve early radar


During most of world war two, texas served in the atlantic fleet, as a flagship. She participated in the north africa campaign, and on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), she bombarded Omaha beach in normandy, France.
Late in the war, texas crossed the panama canal, to provide gunfire support in Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At the end of the war, she helped bring back soldiers from asia to america.
Texas was decommissioned in 1948, and became a museum near Houston in the San Jacinto state park, in Texas.


It was the first USN battleship to become a museum.


Today, texas is the second oldest surviving battleship (second to IJN's Mikasa), and the ONLY world war one dreadnough battleship still afloat.


On March 12, 2014, Texas turned 100 years old.