The Destroyer Escort 238 USS Stewart was commissioned into active service on May 31, 1943 having been constructed at the Brown Shipbuilding Yards in Houston.
Tag Archives: Texas St. Martins sits on state highway 237S, about three miles south-west of Round Top, Texas. It’s billed on a sign by the road as the ‘smallest Catholic Church in the world’.  Like the Elissa, the USS Texas is no longer seaworthy. She lies in a berth off the Houston ship channel just north of the San Jacinto battleground where Texas won it’s independence from Mexico. There are plans to make the berth a dry dock but that’s not due to be completed till 2017, so she sits on the mud quietly rusting away. 
[...] Park in Galveston chose a different approach to presenting their ships than the folks minding the Elissa or USS Texas. Rather than have to deal with slowly rotting hulls and their vessels taking on water, [...]  Taken around 3:00pm on a late January afternoon, the trees are all devoid of leaves. The sun was still high enough in the sky to light the face of the barn and the gate without interruption from the shadows of the trees.  This ‘nodding donkey’ was whirring away on the beach near High Island in Texas. The sun is still a 33 minutes away from breaking above the horizon.  Since yesterday was Mardi Gras, that makes today Ash Wednesday, so here’s a photo of some ashes. OK so that’s a bit weak, I know – my wife often reminds me I’m not as funny as I think I am. I took this a few weeks back when my son received his Arrow of Light,…  This Buffalo Soldier was riding with his colleagues in the leading units of the Krewe of Pontchartrain parade in 2009.  What first struck me about this scene was the crop spraying plane that was buzzing around. I didn’t get a useable shot of the crop sprayer – it was too far away for my 75-300mm (B&H) and I loused up the exposure for the plane. However, I did like to scene of this farm with…  I was struck by the lemon-yellow building in this scene. It sits at the entrance to the leisure boat marina in Palacios, Texas. In the background is part of the fishing fleet – shrimp, crabs and oysters being the main business in this town. The yellow building typifies one of the things I love about…
[...] However, I did like to scene of this farm with the contrast of the red barns, sand house and green alfalfa fields, so I tried a few shots and this one was my favorite. In the metadata I placed it near Wadsworth, Texas. Maybe that name triggered a latent memory of my favorite local ale back in England, Wadworth’s 6X. But in trying to find the location on Google Earth while writing this post, I see it is actually much closer to Palacios. [...] 
Where is Surfside Beach? 
Hi Linda, Surfside Beach is about 36 miles south-west along the Texas Gulf Coast from Galveston. It lies on the eastern gulf side of the inlet that feeds the intercoastal waterway. Freeport, Texas lies on the inland side to the west of that inlet. |
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by Richard Davis
[...] back, the city acquired several downtown blocks near the George R. Brown (yes, same Brown as in Brown Shipbuilding and KBR) Convention Center. On it they built the Toyota Center – home to the Houston Rockets [...]