Sunday, April 17, 2011

Monday, April 17, 1911. Keel for the USS Texas laid.

Emiliano Zapata's forces occupied Izúcar de Matamoros.  They would be driven out the following day.

The keel for the USS Texas was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

USS Texas. The only surviving dreadnought in the world. San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, Texas.



These are photographs of the USS Texas. The date stamp, fwiw, is in error. These were taken in  October, 2016.

The  Texas is the last Dreadnought on earth.  One pre dreadnought battleship exists, a Japanese example, and several post dreadnought battleships. But these ships, which formed the backbone of every major fleet in the world in the early 20th Century, are down to this example.  She was launched in 1912 and commissioned on 1914. A major ship in her day, while she served all the way through World War Two, and provided support to amphibious landings in Europe and the Pacific, she was already somewhat antiquated at the time of her commissioning.  Super dreadnoughts, like the Arizona, were already being launched prior to her commissioning.  Still, she was a ship of many firsts, including being the first US ship to mount anti aircraft guns.
 












































 San Jacinto Monument as viewed from the USS Texas.










































































Last Edition:

Saturday, April 15, 1911. The Factory Girl's Danger.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Friday, April 14, 1911. Taft's warning to Mexican combatants.

President Taft warned all sides in the Mexican Revolution to avoid fighting near the U.S. border and to avoid causing American casualties.

Anarchist Mexican commander Simón Berthold Chacón died of wounds sustained in recent fighting in Baja, where Socialist and Anarchist made up a strong contingent of the rebels.

Theodore Romzha, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church bishop who refused to merge his church with the Russian Orthodox Church was born in Nagybocskó, Austria-Hungary, which is now Velykyi Bychkiv, Ukraine.  He was murdered in 1944.


The original Polo Grounds was destroyed by fire in New Jersey.

Last edition:

Thursday, April 13, 1911. Rebel victory at Agua Prieta.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011