The iconic Battleship Texas will move from the San Jacinto Battle Ground Site in La Porte to the Gulf Copper Shipyard in Galveston starting Wednesday for extensive renovations to the ship's hull.
The transfer will begin at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and is expected to take up to 10 hours to complete.Crews have spent the last year and a half preparing for the $35 million restoration project. The last time a major renovation like this was done on the ship was back in 1988. Ironically, the restoration will be happening at the same shipyard in Galveston.
Battleship Texas departs La Porte on August 31, 2022, to undergo an extensive repair project in Galveston."She’s coming out stern first so once we get her in the Houston Ship Channel, we have to turn her 90 degrees," said Bruce Bramlett, Chief Operating Officer at Battleship Texas. "At that point, we’ll hook the tow tug up to the front of her. There will be a trailing tug."
Once in Galveston, Battleship Texas will be lifted out of the water to begin the overdue renovations for its recurring leaks."We’re to the point where if we didn’t intervene and if we didn’t do something, the ship’s days are really over. There was a lot of consideration in 2019, was it actually time to consider scrapping this ship?" Bramlett said.
However, that unthinkable idea was quickly extinguished after the millions in funding were approved with unanimous, bipartisan support during the 2019 state legislature.
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