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Welcome Aboard The USS Texas (CGN-39) Home Page!

 

NEWS!

USS Texas (SSN-775) KEEL LAYING CEREMONY
Reunion Pictures and Stories
USS Texas Reunion / BB-35 / CGN-39 - News! !! Scheduled for Oct 3,4 & 5 - 2003 !!
Virginia Class Cruiser Model  
Rear Admiral Thomas J. Wilson, III (Ex Texas Sailor)
Rear Admiral Dale E. Baugh (Ex Texas Sailor)

 

TEXAS HOME

 

TEXAS STUFF

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-Decomm Book
-History

NEWS!

-Reunion
-Reunion Forum
-New Texas

 

  Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Co.  Keel Laid: August 18, 1973  Launched: August 9, 1975 Commissioned: September 10, 1977  Decommissioned: July 16, 1993  Length/Beam/Draft (in feet): 585 / 63 / 31.5  Displacement: 11,300 tons (full load)  Crew: 585  Propulsion: 2-D2G pressurized, water-cooled reactors @135 MW each 2-geared steam turbines @ 37,500 shp each 2-shafts @ 60,000shp each 30+ knots  Armament: 2-MK26 launchers (68 SM-2(MR) anti-air missiles) 2-MK143 ABLs (8 TOMAHAWK TASM/TLAM cruise missiles) 2-MK141 launchers (8 HARPOON anti-ship missiles) 2-MK45 5/54 DP gun mounts 2-MK15 20mm PHALANX close-in weapons system  Home port: Bremerton, WA (inactive ships division)