Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

Early and WW2 views of the NEW YORK............ Note JEAN BART in background of the Casablanca picture.

I wonder how her 14" would have worked vs. HSF battleships??? Was our fire control on BBs in WW1 as good as or better than the RNs? That could have been a decisive factor......one way or the other. DFO

USS Conserver (ARS-39) pictured as she tows the 'irradiated' Battleship USS New York out of Pearl Harbor to be sunk as a target,July 6th 1948.

Too radioactive for scrapping or a memorial in her home state, the ship was sunk as a target on 8 July 1948 off Hawaii. She is shown here bottom up in her final moments.

New York Class Battleship USS Texas seen at Norfolk Navy Yard on March 15th 1943.

New York Class Battleship USS Texas pictured in the Gatun Locks, while transiting the Panama Canal en route to the US east coast,June 21st 1937.

Undated...New York Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Texas.

Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship USS New York pictured fitting out in dry dock No4 at New York Navy Yard,Brooklyn,March 3rd 1913.

Brian James wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 4:13 am Undated...New York Class Dreadnought Battleship USS Texas.

Navsource has that photo (in a slightly different form) with the following caption:

Official USN photo courtesy The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet by Admiral James C. Fahey, courtesy of Tommy Trampp.

The 1.1" quad and 20mm single gun mounts show it is sometime in early WW2.

The quad 1.1" mounts were replaced by quad 40mm mounts in June 1943, and more 20mm mounts placed atop the upper turrets, as shown in the below photo dated by Navsource as "after June 30 1943 and before 25 January 1944.

Back in 1915 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, behind the WYOMING is sister.....TEXAS!

Lots of BIG GUNNZZ!!! DFO

Lead Ship,Dreadnought Battleship USS New York pictured embarking Midshipmen on their annual Training Cruise,Severn River Annapolis in the summer of 1940.