The early USS Texas and USS Maine had design features that reduced their usefulness as a battleship or cruiser, even by contemporary standards. Their construction nevertheless helped establish the basis for the US Navy's later growth. That formative contribution keeps them outside its selected Bearn category. Their origins lay largely in an American reaction to Brazil acquiring a capable ship.
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Texas and Maine were flawed but formative
Texas and Maine appear as flawed early designs whose shortcomings were offset by their place in the US Navy's institutional and shipbuilding growth.