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U.S.S. TEXAS

(CGN-39)

PROUD HERITAGE PROUD PURPOSE

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The USS TEXAS (CGN-39), a Virginia class cruiser, was commissioned on 10 SEP 1977. USS TEXAS was built at Newport News, VA by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. After training, post-commissioning fit out and weapons loading, USS TEXAS deployed to the "Med" and "IO" during the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979. USS TEXAS deployed several times to the Mediterranean as a part of a Carrier Battler Group, then changed homeport to San Diego after a circumnavigation with the USS Carl Vinson Battle group. USS TEXAS finished her service career in the Pacific, deploying repeatedly to the West Pac and IO as the US Navy stationed a standing force in the Persian Gulf. USS TEXAS served her country for 15 years, 10 months and 6 days, until decommissioned on 16 JUL 1993. USS TEXAS was processed from 1999 to 2001 by the Nuclear Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington.

The USS TEXAS (CGN-39) deployment history and significant events of her service career follow:

CGN-39 Deployments - Major Events

Add a CGN-39 Shellback Initiation Add a CGN-39 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
AUG1973-Keel Date: 18 AUG 1973
at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Newport News VA
AUG1975-Launch Date: 9 AUG 1975
SEP1977-Commissioned: 10 SEP 1977
JAN1979-Shellback Initiation - 9 JAN 1979 - Atlantic Ocean
JAN1979-JAN1979Shellback Initiation
SEP1979-MAR1980Mediterranean-Indian Ocean
SEP1979-MAY1980Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
JAN1980-Shellback Initiation - 9 JAN 1980 - Atlantic Ocean
JAN1980-Shellback Initiation - 9 JAN 1980 - Indian Ocean
APR1980-APR1980Operation Eagle Claw (Meritorious Unit Citation)
JUN1980-JUN1984Caribbean
JUL1980-MAR1981Egypt
JUL1980-MAR1981Mediterranean
AUG1980-MAR1981Egypt
AUG1980-OCT1980North Atlantic
AUG1980-OCT1980North Atlantic
AUG1980-OCT1980North Atlantic
SEP1980-MAR1981Egypt
SEP1980-SEP1980Blue Nose - Arctic Circle
JUL1981-MAR1982Mediterranean
AUG1981-AUG1981Gulf of Sidra Incident (Navy Expeditionary Medal)
AUG1981-MAR1982Mediterranean
AUG1981-MAR1982Mediterranean
FEB1982-MAY1984Circumnavigation
MAR1982-Shellback Initiation - 6 MAR 1982 - Pacific Ocean
MAR1982- Shellback Initiation - 21 MAR 1982 - Pacific Ocean
DEC1982-OCT1983Circumnavigation
APR1983-DEC1983Circumnavigation
APR1983-Shellback Initiation - 28 APR 1983 - Atlantic Ocean
APR1983-Shellback Initiation - 28 APR 1983 - Indian Ocean
OCT1984-MAY1985West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
APR1985-Shellback Initiation - 1 APR 1985 - Indian Ocean
JUL1988-Shellback Initiation - 25 JUL 1988 - Pacific Ocean
JUL1988-DEC1988West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
APR1990-OCT1990West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
OCT1990-AUG1991West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
MAR1991-AUG1991West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf
JUL1991-Shellback Initiation - 21 JUL 1991 - Pacific Ocean
JUL1991- Shellback Initiation - 21 JUL 1991 - Indian Ocean
APR1992-Shellback Initiation - 28 APR 1992 - Pacific Ocean
JUL1993-Decommissioned: 16 JUL 1993

CGN-39 General Specifications

Class: Virginia class cruiser

Named for: The state of Texas

Complement: 39 Officers and 539 Enlisted

Displacement: 11000 tons

Length: 585 feet

Beam: 63 feet

Flank Speed: 30

Range: Unlimited distance

Final Disposition:Nuclear Recycling 30 October 2001



USS TEXAS (CGN-39)



(CGN-39: dp. 11,000 (f.); 1. 585'; b. 63'; dr. 31'; s. 30+ k.; cpl. 476; a. 2 5", 2 Phalanx, ASROC, Harpoon, Standard, 6 Mk.32 tt.; cl. Virginia)

The third Texas (DLGN-39) was laid down as a guided missile frigate on 18 August 1973, at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Co.; reclassifled as a guided missile cruiser and redesignated CGN-39 on 30 June 1975; launched on 9 August 1975; sponsored by Mrs. Dolph Briscoe, wife of the Governor of Texas; and commissioned on 10 September 1977, Capt. Peter B. Fiedler in command.

Following a nine-week test of the ship's combat systems, Texas loaded out weapons at the Yorktown Naval Weapons station in October and underwent refresher training out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in November. Texas spent the first three months of 1978 conducting at-sea evaluation of her propulsion and weapons systems off the Virginia capes and in the Caribbean. On 28 March, she transited to her building yard at Newport News to commence a Post Shakedown Availability (PSA) which was completed on 31 July. The remainder of 1978 was spent in individual ship exercises off the east coast and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, interspersed with periods in Texas' home port of Norfolk.

[Note: The above USS TEXAS (CGN-39) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS TEXAS (CGN-39), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]