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lonestarbattleship · 2 years

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Crew of USS TEXAS (BB-35) conducting familiarization training with their new ship near Lobos Island, Gulf of Mexico.

Date: June 2-July 7, 1914

"Now we were alone in the world. Except for an occasional ship on the horizon and for the tender which brought us mail and fresh provisions once a week, we'd see nothing but sea and sky and our small domain for days to come. For our purposes it was ideal; we forgot all about Vera Cruz, forgot everything but the TEXAS.

In the flat water of the Gulf, we got up anchor each early morning and went out to learn her ways. How long would it take to bring her dead in the water from full speed ahead? What was her turning circle? Had her engines any kinks, and her gear any weak spots? Was she good at casting on her heel? Could she dodge a torpedo? How long after the rudder was put over did she pick up her swing? At five knots, at ten knots, at fifteen knots, at twenty knots? Did she gain speed well?

And we had the fourteen-inch guns to work at. The shell weighed three quarters of a ton; there was electric hoisting gear for handling them. The powder charges weighed four hundred pounds, and came up from the magazines by power hoist and hand. What was the fastest, smoothest way to load the guns?

We put seventy men to a turret's crew, to be welded into a clean machine. Some of them went down into the deep magazines, to bully projectiles from their racks with chain purchases, or to pass powder through flaps in the bulkheads. Others we placed at stages on the way up, in the upper handling room, the upper powder room, the ready service, others back of the guns in the loading crews-rammermen, powder men, plugmen, shellmen, gun captains, hoistmen.

Heavy work for all, and they had to be synchronized into swift, coordinated teams.

'Try it again, lads. This time, Riley, stand with your feet a little closer to the tray. When you lift that bag of powder, get under it with the muscles of your back and thighs. It wants to come up faster. Savvy?'

'Le's go, sailors. Come on, now-ready on the plug.'

'Stand by....Load!'

Grunting, hurrying, they strained in movement; awkwardness merged into grace. They used dummy 'powder' charges made of wood.

Under the guns the pointers looked through their telescopic sights and turned the handwheels of the pointing gear; the white lighthouse made a good target.

'Don't spin the wheel so fast,' coached the officer. 'Come up to the point of aim. Slowly, now. Now stick with it. That's the stuff. Mark, mark, mark, mark--right on. Mark, mark... Stand by... fire! A little off that time; try it again. Mark! Mark, mark... mark... mark, mark, mark...stand by ... fire! That would have been a good hit." The loading crews cut down their time to fifteen seconds, and below that.

Our routine was tight and regular as the clock. It shook the looseness out of her. Sailors, lax from long time in port, stiffened to the discipline of a hard, taut, crew."

Passage from "Come On TEXAS" by Paul Schubert.

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