Texas was the first US battleship to become a permanent museum ship. Texas was also a technological testbed: the first US battleship to mount anti-aircraft guns, the first US warship to control gunfire with directors and range-keepers, the first US battleship to launch an aircraft, and one of the first US Navy warships to receive production radar. When completed she will head to a yet unknown location for future tours. As of February 2023 the repair project is underway. At the end of August 2022 she was moved to a dry dock in Galveston, Texas to undergo a $35 million dollar repair project. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II. She was the only Allied battleship that took part in all four of these amphibious landings.

In World War II, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and later shelled Vichy French forces in the North African Landings and German-held beaches in the Normandy Landings before being transferred to the Pacific Theater late in 1944 to provide naval gunfire support during the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Texas served in Mexican waters following the ' Tampico Incident' but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I without engaging the enemy, though she did fire in anger for the first time when shooting medium-caliber guns at supposed submarines (no evidence exists that suggests these were anything more than waves). She was launched on and commissioned on 12 March 1914. USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (submerged).

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