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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
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Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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AUG | 1973 | - | Keel Date: 18 AUG 1973 at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Newport News VA | ||
AUG | 1975 | - | Launch Date: 9 AUG 1975 | ||
SEP | 1977 | - | Commissioned: 10 SEP 1977 | ||
JAN | 1979 | - | Shellback Initiation - 9 JAN 1979 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JAN | 1979 | - | JAN | 1979 | Shellback Initiation |
SEP | 1979 | - | MAR | 1980 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
SEP | 1979 | - | MAY | 1980 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JAN | 1980 | - | Shellback Initiation - 9 JAN 1980 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JAN | 1980 | - | Shellback Initiation - 9 JAN 1980 - Indian Ocean | ||
APR | 1980 | - | APR | 1980 | Operation Eagle Claw (Meritorious Unit Citation) |
JUN | 1980 | - | JUN | 1984 | Caribbean |
JUL | 1980 | - | MAR | 1981 | Egypt |
JUL | 1980 | - | MAR | 1981 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1980 | - | MAR | 1981 | Egypt |
AUG | 1980 | - | OCT | 1980 | North Atlantic |
AUG | 1980 | - | OCT | 1980 | North Atlantic |
AUG | 1980 | - | OCT | 1980 | North Atlantic |
SEP | 1980 | - | MAR | 1981 | Egypt |
SEP | 1980 | - | SEP | 1980 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
JUL | 1981 | - | MAR | 1982 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1981 | - | AUG | 1981 | Gulf of Sidra Incident (Navy Expeditionary Medal) |
AUG | 1981 | - | MAR | 1982 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1981 | - | MAR | 1982 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1982 | - | MAY | 1984 | Circumnavigation |
MAR | 1982 | - | Shellback Initiation - 6 MAR 1982 - Pacific Ocean | ||
MAR | 1982 | - | Shellback Initiation - 21 MAR 1982 - Pacific Ocean | ||
DEC | 1982 | - | OCT | 1983 | Circumnavigation |
APR | 1983 | - | DEC | 1983 | Circumnavigation |
APR | 1983 | - | Shellback Initiation - 28 APR 1983 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
APR | 1983 | - | Shellback Initiation - 28 APR 1983 - Indian Ocean | ||
OCT | 1984 | - | MAY | 1985 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
APR | 1985 | - | Shellback Initiation - 1 APR 1985 - Indian Ocean | ||
JUL | 1988 | - | Shellback Initiation - 25 JUL 1988 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUL | 1988 | - | DEC | 1988 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
APR | 1990 | - | OCT | 1990 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
OCT | 1990 | - | AUG | 1991 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
MAR | 1991 | - | AUG | 1991 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JUL | 1991 | - | Shellback Initiation - 21 JUL 1991 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUL | 1991 | - | Shellback Initiation - 21 JUL 1991 - Indian Ocean | ||
APR | 1992 | - | Shellback Initiation - 28 APR 1992 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUL | 1993 | - | 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]