The Battleship Texas, a century-old World War Dreadnought turned museum ship, is truly part of world history. She will be calling Galveston home for the foreseeable future! We trace Battleship Texas from dreadnought legend to a revived future at Pier 15. Kandace Trujillo Gilman shares the hard engineering, funding strategy, and education plans that turn preservation into a sustainable mission for the last surviving dreadnought.

• defining a dreadnought and Texas’s big-gun design
• World War I service and five major World War II operations
• Why Galveston: attendance growth and sustainability
• Pier 15 dredging, monopiles, gangway, and ticketing
• historic deck restoration in longleaf yellow pine
• five-inch gun removal and heavy-lift logistics
• drainage fixes, interior restoration
• HNSA collaboration and sharing methods across fleets
• dry dock tours as fundraising and public education
• future programs: guided tours, overnights, special events

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