The Battleship Texas is finally out of dry dock and back on the water as renovations continue.
It's a short jaunt between piers in the Galveston Channel as the huge ship is being towed, it will take seven hours to move it about 300 feet.
It's been in one place since August of 2022, and Matthew Pham with the Battleship Texas Foundation says this move is a big deal.
"Previous to her dry dock towing, she was leaking over 2,000 gallons per minute. It is a huge step representing over 200,000 man-hours logged and over 700 tons of steel replaced" said Pham.
The goal is to get the ship back to how she looked after World War II. She's the last remaining battleship from that war and World War I.
During World War II the ship was present at the invasion of North Africa as well as the landing at D-Day in Europe, and was in the Pacific theater.
The ship was built in 1914, decommissioned in 1948 and brought back to Texas as a museum.
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