When German nine-inch guns straddled Texas, the ship shifted from broad salvos to a near-continuous sequence from individual twin turrets. One shell damaged the conning-tower periscope and bridge area, wounded several men, and fatally wounded Christen Christensen. Texas continued firing and achieved a direct hit on a reinforced emplacement, while a second German shell lodged unexploded beneath the wardroom. Sixty-five straddles or near misses and 206 American 14-inch rounds illustrate both the danger of prepared coastal batteries and the resilience expected from an armored capital ship.
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The Cherbourg duel with Battery Hamburg
Texas absorbed heavy coastal-artillery fire off Cherbourg while maintaining a rapid two-gun salvo pattern against Battery Hamburg.