Dreadnought is an unofficial enthusiast archive about USS Texas (BB-35) — the last surviving dreadnought battleship. It is written for people who want the vessel explained: riveted hull plating, coal-to-oil conversion, machinery, main-battery layout, fire control, blisters, dry-docking, corrosion and the mechanics of preservation.
01What this is not
It is not the ship's caretaker, and it is not connected to any organisation that looks after her. There is nothing to buy here: no tickets, no memberships, no donations, no opening times, no visit planning. If you want any of those, go to the organisation that actually operates the ship.
It is also not a war site. Her service is stated as record — where she was and what role the ship performed — and then the writing returns to the vessel. Nothing here dwells on combat, and nothing here is framed as recruitment, service or veterans material.
02How figures are handled
Documented values are printed as documented: class, launch and commissioning dates, length, beam over the blisters, machinery type, main-battery arrangement. Where a figure is uncertain — plate thicknesses, complement, costs, tonnages of a particular repair — the archive describes the engineering instead of asserting a number.
Drawings shown on this site are reproductions of supplied material. Nothing here is reconstructed from memory or inference.