Battleship Texas Foundation

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Join us on October 5th at South Shore Harbour Country Club in League City, Texas for the 4th Annual Battleship TEXAS Gol...
09/08/2026

Join us on October 5th at South Shore Harbour Country Club in League City, Texas for the 4th Annual Battleship TEXAS Golf Tournament! Registration for individuals or teams includes entry into the tournament, access to the driving range, a golf cart for the event, lunch, a gift bag, and the awards reception after the tournament.

Tournament schedule:
7:30 AM - Registration Opens
Mulligans available for purchase
Putting Contest Opens
Driving Range Opens
8:45 AM - Pre-start briefing
9:00 AM - Tournament Start
1:30 PM - Lunch
2:00 PM - Awards Ceremony

Sponsorship packages are also available for the event, including hole sponsors and putting contest sponsors.

Register now at:
https://battleship-texas-charity-golf-tournament.perfectgolfevent.com/registration

Happy from Battleship TEXAS! We’ll be getting some much-needed R&R and we hope you will too.📸: Two men on TEXAS relaxi...
09/07/2026

Happy from Battleship TEXAS! We’ll be getting some much-needed R&R and we hope you will too.

📸: Two men on TEXAS relaxing in 1942. Photo by Frank Scherschel for LIFE Magazine.

, September 6, 1945, Operation Magic Carpet began as the United States worked to bring home millions of Americans who h...
09/06/2026

, September 6, 1945, Operation Magic Carpet began as the United States worked to bring home millions of Americans who had served overseas during World War II. The USS TEXAS (BB-35), now a veteran of two world wars, would soon join the effort, making four trips to return American service members to their families in 1945.

When the operation started, the TEXAS was anchored in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, where the crew executed their daily duties, tended to the ship they called home, and enjoyed liberty ashore on the nearby island of Tsuken Shima.

📷: Battleship TEXAS homeward bound on September 23, 1945.

It’s and we thought you might like to see the two finest beards to ever grace Battleship TEXAS. Who wore it better, Ki...
09/05/2026

It’s and we thought you might like to see the two finest beards to ever grace Battleship TEXAS. Who wore it better, King Neptune or Santa Claus?

📸:
1. King Neptune during a "crossing the line" ceremony in 1936.
2. Santa Claus coming aboard on Christmas Day, 1941.

Photos courtesy of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

, September 4, 1944, the USS TEXAS (BB-35) prepares to get underway, with most of the crew conducting a normal routine....
09/04/2026

, September 4, 1944, the USS TEXAS (BB-35) prepares to get underway, with most of the crew conducting a normal routine.

What differed that day was that the crew had received a letter from S2c Emil Saul, who had been wounded while in the pilot house during the engagement with Battery Hamburg, off Cherbourg, France, and transferred to a Field Hospital in Portland, England.

"Yesterday, I received from my shipmates a letter and also a bond. I can't express to you in words the feeling that came through me. Honestly, it really made me feel one hundred percent better to think that all of you are still thinking about me.

At present, I am doing fine. The doctor has almost finished the plastic work on my nose, and I'm really pleased with the results.

About my feet, they are still in casts and are doing fine also, but they will have to be operated on again sometime in the near future.

Sure am glad to hear that the ship is still O.K. I know she'll remain that way for the "Mighty T" shall always be. Hope that sometime real soon all of you can come back to the States and get all the praise and enjoyment you so very much deserve.

I can't say much more except thanks again to you and everyone else for the bond and also for the millions of other things you've done for me."

📄: Routine for Monday, 4 September 1944 USS TEXAS (BB-35). Courtesy of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

Stormy weather got you feeling [navy] blue?Don't worry, here are some pictures of Battleship TEXAS to cheer you up!
09/04/2026

Stormy weather got you feeling [navy] blue?

Don't worry, here are some pictures of Battleship TEXAS to cheer you up!

We're looking for rivet teams!Explore the wonders of science, technology, engineering, art, and math at STEAM by the Sea...
09/04/2026

We're looking for rivet teams!

Explore the wonders of science, technology, engineering, art, and math at STEAM by the Sea Fest through interactive activities, hosted by Moody Gardens on September 12, 2026. Join us as we discuss the incident that prevented the ship from joining World War I on time, and join a rivet team tasked with repairing TEXAS so the crew can head "Over There!"

to September 2022!The repair and restoration of Battleship TEXAS has come a long way since 2022. On September 6, 2022,...
09/03/2026

to September 2022!

The repair and restoration of Battleship TEXAS has come a long way since 2022. On September 6, 2022, years of marine growth had been mostly removed, revealing the underlying steel, which had not been seen since the last dry docking in 1988-1989.

📷: Battleship TEXAS in dry dock, September 6, 2022.

, September 2, 1945, , the Instrument of Surrender was signed aboard USS MISSOURI (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, formally endin...
09/02/2026

, September 2, 1945, , the Instrument of Surrender was signed aboard USS MISSOURI (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, formally ending the Second World War.

While the war was over and American servicemen could breathe a sigh of relief, the work was far from over. There were an estimated 8 million Americans serving overseas at the end of the war, and the logistical operation to bring them home – Operation Magic Carpet – would go on for another year.

On V-J Day, USS TEXAS (BB-35) was in Nakagusuku Bay, Okinawa, better known to the Americans there as “Buckner Bay” in honor of Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. who was killed in action on Okinawa on June 18, 1945. No one on TEXAS knew for sure when they would be home, as Enever Limerick wrote in his journal that day.

“Still at Buckner Bay and it doesn’t look like we will be leaving any time soon. Maybe in about a month or so. There have been a lot of bets made of when we will be back home. We all believe that by a year from now we will be decommissioning the Texas.” -Enever Limerick writing aboard TEXAS on September 2, 1945.

TEXAS left Okinawa just three weeks later, beginning her first “Magic Carpet Ride” to repatriate Americans from the Pacific. She stopped in Pearl Harbor and finally arrived in the Port of Los Angeles on October 15, 1945. She completed three more Magic Carpet Rides between Pearl Harbor and California, the last one reaching San Diego, California on Christmas Eve, 1945.

📸: Color photo of the signing ceremony aboard MISSOURI on September 2, 1945. Courtesy of the National Archives & Records Administration.

September 1, 1927, USS TEXAS (BB-35) became the flagship of the United States fleet, a role she would serve in until S...
09/01/2026

September 1, 1927, USS TEXAS (BB-35) became the flagship of the United States fleet, a role she would serve in until September 15, 1931. She relieved the armored cruiser USS SEATTLE (formerly USS WASHINGTON) of that role and was herself relieved by USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38).

📷: TEXAS taken from the Brooklyn Bridge by Underwood on September 7, 1927.

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