Jack of Harts

Texas had few State-owned naval yards when the Second Great Depression began. They had long relied on private enterprises to support their small number of State Guard ships, and the Federal government had long since abandoned all major naval bases in Texas to favor major Western or Eastern Seaboard ports. Texas needed to remedy that situation if they were to support a Texas Navy capable of doing anything more than patrolling the rivers or the shallow gulf waters. So they contacted the major private yards and ports scattered over their coast in hopes of building that capability. Bludworth Marine was eager to explore such a new relationship, and returned the call with nearly indecent haste.