Daily Photo – BB-35 USS Texas

Daily Photo – BB-35 USS Texas
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.

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Daily Photo – Ropes

Daily Photo – Ropes
Ropes (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

The Elissa is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1877. She was rescued from destruction in a Greek Shipyard in 1975 by the Galveston Historical Foundation and towed to Galveston in 1979.

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