From the Texas you can run down to Seawolf park in Galveston and see a WWII fleet sub on display too. It's pretty cool.
LOL... in Mobile, they have the
Alabama and the
Drum within walking distance (a relative term when one 'display object' is 668 feet long, and the other is 312 feet long).
Drum is in bad enough shape that they had to take her out of the water and sit her up on land, and the
Alabama is in the process of recieving some MAJOR hull patching, but both are still as pretty and well-preserved inside as ever (there are even rumored to be some 5" rounds still on the
Alabama ). The repairs to the
Alabama's hull are going to be guarenteed for at least 50 years, and since it's just the lower part of the hull where the metal is thin (compared to a 16" armor belt), it's not that big of a job.
I do wish that they would simply cement around her and seal off the lower hull, though. Something akin to what the Japanese did to the
Mikasa, the only unconverted pre-dreadnaught left in existance.
She's #5 on my list of 'gotta see ships'- and that low only because she's permanently grounded at the old Yokosuka naval base.
Top is the official site Yokosuka city website; the bottom is the Wiki site, which has better pics of the way that she was cemented in.
http://www.city.yokosuka.kanagawa.jp/e/mikasa/index.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_MikasaShe's a real treasure... only she and the Protected Cruisers
Olympia and the Russian
AURORA survive from that time period. (I was wrong, see below)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cruiser_Aurorahttp://www.phillyseaport.org/historicships/olympia.htmlEDIT: Holy Crap... guess I was wrong. Naval History Buffs, prepare to empty your pocketbooks! Here's a list of pre-dreadnaught ships around the world! There are a LOT more than just the three I knew about, and many of them are still floating and in prime condition!
http://www.oz.net/~markhow/pre-dred/index.htm