62.) Battleship USS Texas BB-35 - 1916 painting.
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http://www.wendelboe.no/kunst/auksjoner/2006/4_06/katalog.php?resultpage=3&%22
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J.Lau
Amerikansk krigsskip, ca 1930
Olje på lerret.
signatur : Signert nede til venstre
mål ( cm ): 39 x 56
vurdering : Kr 6000 - 7000.- € 750 - 875
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http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/35a.htm
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NavSource Online: Battleship Photo Archive
BB-35 USS TEXAS
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Oil on canvas painting by the artist J.Lau entitled "Texas, circa pre WW I." Size in cm: 39 x 56, for sale, contact Asmund Agdestein.
The painting depicts an American battleship (cage masts) with two curved roofed turrets in the No. 1 and No. 2 positions which were used only for the 14" gun turrets of the New York (BB-34/35), Oklahoma (BB-36/7) and Pennsylvania (BB-38/9) classes. Oklahoma class would have a 3-gun turret in the No. 1 position while the Pennsylvania class would have 3 guns in each turret. The painting seems to show only 2 guns per turret; this leave us with the New York class (BB-34/35): New York & Texas.
It is a pre-WWI view. No evidence of a flying-off platform anywhere, and none of the wartime superstructure additions are present. If the stack bands are really on the second funnel (they look like they might have been crudely added to the photo after it was taken), the date would be about 1914.
I would say with 95% certainty that the painting depicts the Texas. The smoke from the funnels obscures much detail of the mast structure but I can make out what should be to searchlights on the foremast mounted one above the other. This arrangement would mean the Texas. The New York carried her search lights on a single platform mounted side by side on both mast which in this painting would be visible projecting from the sides of the masts at about the same level as the 3" guns mentioned above.
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Text i.d. courtesy of Chris Hoehn & Chuck Haberlein. Photo courtesy of Asmund Agdestein.
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New York Class Battleship: Displacement 27,000 Tons, Dimensions, 573' (oa) x 95' 3" x 29' 7" (Max). Armament 10x 14"/45 21 x 5"/51, 56 x 4 x 21" tt. Armor, 12" Belt, 14" Turrets, 3" Decks, 12" Conning Tower. Machinery, 28,100 IHP; Vertical, triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 1052.
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Operational and Building Data: Laid down by Newport News, Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA., April 17, 1911. Launched May 18, 1912. Commissioned March 12, 1914. Decommissioned April 21, 1948. Stricken April 21, 1948.
Fate: Preserved as a memorial, San Jacinto Battlefield, 3523 Highway 134, La Porte TX, 77571.Texas.
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Welcome Aboard! Battleship Texas took part in some of the most significant naval battles of the 20th century during both world wars. Now docked along the Houston Ship Channel, she serves as a memorial to those turbulent times. Come walk her decks, and imagine life as a sailor!
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