🎧 The Last of the Dreadnoughts: USS Texas
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 14m
Dan visits one of the greatest objects on planet Earth: USS Texas, the only dreadnought of its kind anywhere in the world. The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. USS Texas was a second-class battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s, the first American battleship commissioned and the first ship named in honour of the state of Texas to be built by the United States
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