Tracy, the Navy Act of J authorized the construction of "three sea-going, coast-line battle ships" which became the Indiana class. In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan's book The Influence of Sea Power upon History was published and significantly influenced future naval policy-as an indirect result of its influence on Secretary Benjamin F.
Hunt to match Europe's navies that ignited a years-long debate that was suddenly settled in Hunt's favor when the Brazilian Empire commissioned the battleship Riachuelo. Texas and USS Maine, commissioned three years later in 1895, were part of the New Navy program of the late 19th century, a proposal by then Secretary of the Navy William H. The United States Navy began the construction of battleships with USS Texas in 1892, although its first ship to be designated as such was USS Indiana.
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