Daily Photo – BB-35 USS Texas

March 6, 2012
Travel

USS Texas (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

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.

Daily Photo – USS Yorktown

February 27, 2012
Travel

USS Yorktown CV-10 (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

The USS Yorktown (CV-10) was the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the US Navy. Commissioned in April 1943, she saw action in the Pacific, replacing CV-5 (also named USS Yorktown) lost at the Battle of Midway. She was build in just sixteen-and-a-half months!