Daily Photo – DE238 USS Stewart

March 8, 2012
Travel

DE238 USS Stewart (Click image for larger view or to purchase)

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.

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.