And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thats some serious tonnage of high grade steel plate! It's no wonder steel smelters prefer to use that scrap for their base melt.
ReplyDeleteThe size of the torpedo blisters is very evident!
ReplyDeleteI guess she was refloated last week, after a couple of years in a drydock.
Went on a USS Texas tour in '92. Big SOB I tell Ya.
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No wave motion gun, oh well.
ReplyDeleteA very classy Dreadnought.
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