U.S.S. TEXAS

U.S.S Texas

U.S.S. TEXAS, SUPERDREADNOUGHT

Length over all, 573 feet; full-load displacement, 28,367 tons; breadth, 95 feet 2 1/2 inches; speed, 21.05 knots; horse power, 28,373; officers 100; bluejackets, 857; marines, 72
Guns: ten 14-inch 45 calibre breechloading; twenty-one 5-inch 51 calibre breechloading; two 3-inch antiaircraft; torpedo tubes, four 21-inch, submerged.
Cost, hull and machinery, $5,830,000; in commission, March 12, 1914. Burns coal for fuel.

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