U.S.S. Texas, tompion of 12-inch gun made of metal from Vizcaya, recording engagements of Texas in Spanish War

USS Texas was the first American battleship commissioned and the first ship named in honor of the state of Texas to be built by the United States. Texas was meant to incorporate the latest developments in naval tactics and design. However, due to the state of U.S. industry at the time, Texas's building took six years, and by the time she was commissioned, she was already out–of–date, developed a reputation as a jinxed or unlucky ship after several accidents and consequently earned the nickname "Old Hoodoo". These mishaps included problems during construction, flooding. She became the station ship in Charleston, South Carolina by 1908 and was renamed San Marcos in 1911 to allow her name to be used by a new battleship. She became a target ship that same year and was sunk in shallow water in the Chesapeake Bay.

A very large dataset of various big guns, howitzers, mortars, columbiads, all types of canon-like things - everything besides machine guns and rockets. This collection as well as all massive collections on Picryl.com required two steps: First, we picked a set to train AI vision to recognize cannon artillery, and after that, ran all 25M+ images in our database through our image recognition network. All media in the collection is in the public domain. There is no limitation on the dataset usage - educational, scientific, or commercial.