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Mrs. Dolph Briscoe, wife of then governor of Texas, christening
Texas CGN 39 on 09 August 1975. |
Dale Hargrave |
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August 1975, launch ceremony at Newport News |
USN |
04013922 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977. |
Dale Hargrave |
04013923 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977. |
Dale Hargrave |
04013924 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977.
Admiral Hyman Rickover speaking. |
Dale Hargrave |
04013925 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977.
Mrs. Dolph Briscoe, the ship's sponsor. |
Dale Hargrave |
04013926 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977.
Texas governor Dolph Briscoe presenting a silver service to the ship. |
Dale Hargrave |
04013927 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977. |
Dale Hargrave |
04013928 |
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Commissioning at Norfolk Naval Station, 10 September 1977. |
Dale Hargrave |
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Starboard bow view, (Poor) |
USN |
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(Very small) Port bow view. |
USN |
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Starboard bow view, (poor) |
USN |
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Two views of the Virginia class nuclear powered cruiser.
White marking on the bow is a target for underway replenishment helicopters.
Equipped with a helicopter pad aft, there is also a hanger in the fantail,
reminiscent of her WW2 predecessors. The door/elevator reportedly leaked
badly and were not liked by her crews. |
USN |
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See above. |
USN |
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Undated starboard bow view |
Newport News Shipbuilding |
04013909 |
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Undated port side view.
U.S. Navy Photo
|
Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr |
04014108 |
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Undated port side photo of USS
Arkansas (CGN 41), USS Mississippi
(CGN 40), and USS Texas (CGN 39) (bottom to top). |
Robert Hirsh |
04013919 |
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Port bow view, date and location unknown.
U.S. Navy photo.
|
David Buell |
04013915 |
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Port quarter view while underway in the Chesapeake Bay,
6 July 1977. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Starboard side view from USS
California (CGN 36) while underway in the Indian Ocean January 1980. |
Michael Boyd |
04013812 |
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An aerial starboard bow view of six nuclear-powered guided missile
cruisers underway in formation during exercise READEX 1-81. The ships
are, from left to right: USS TEXAS (CGN 39), USS
MISSISSIPPI (CGN 40), USS CALIFORNIA
(CGN 36), USS SOUTH CAROLINA
(CGN 37), USS VIRGINIA (CGN
38) and USS ARKANSAS (CGN 41).
Photo taken 26 February 1981 by PH1 Anthony Alleyne.
DOD Photo #DN-SC-87-08333
|
Steve Dietrich |
04013825 |
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Six nuclear powered cruisers sailing together on 28 February 1981. The United States had operated nuclear powered cruisers for over three decades. USS Long Beach (CGN 9) entered service in 1961 while the final cruisers, the California class were decommissioned in 1999 (The Virginia class, the final class designed and built, were decommissioned in 1998). First row, front to back:
USS Virginia (CGN 38)
USS South Carolina (CGN 37)
USS California (CGN 36)
Second row, front to back:
USS Arkansas (CGN 41)
USS Mississippi (CGN 40)
USS Texas (CGN 39) |
U.S. Navy |
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Aerial stern view of (left to right) the nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier USS
Nimitz (CVN 68), the nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers USS
Mississippi (CGN 40) and USS Texas (CGN 39), and the guided
missile cruiser USS Biddle (CG 34),
underway in the Mediterranean Sea, August 1981.
On 19 August 1981 two F-14A Tomcats from VF-41 "Black Aces,"
based on Nimitz, used Sidewinder missiles to shoot down two Lybian,
Soviet-built SU-22 Fitters over the Gulf of Sidra, after one of the
Lybian jets fired an Atoll heat-seeking missile. This incident marked
the first Navy air combat confrontation since the Vietnam War and the
first ever for the F-14A Tomcat.
US Navy photo by PH3 Cruz (DVIC id.: DNSC8501964).
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Defense Visual Information Center |
04013920 |
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1 August 1981 - An aerial starboard beam view of the nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier USS
Nimitz (CVN 68) and the nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser
USS Texas (CGN 39) underway.
U.S. Navy photo #DN-SC-85-01960 by: PH3 Cruz.
|
Robert M. Cieri |
04013932 |
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Departing La Spezia, Italy, 15 December 1981. |
Carlo Martinelli |
04013930 |
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Moored in Waitemata Harbour, 5 August 1983, Auckland NZ. |
Chris Howell |
04013931 |
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Moored in Waitemata Harbour, 7 August 1983, Auckland NZ. |
Chris Howell |
04013916 |
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Starboard quarter view while underway in the Gulf of Alaska,
1987 |
Robert M. Cieri |
04013918 |
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Moored in Pearl Harbor, July 1988. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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1 July 1988 - Crewmen work on the foc'sle of the nuclear-powered guided-missile
cruiser USS Texas (CGN 39) during deployment.
U.S. Navy photo #DN-SC-92-04473 by: OS2 John Bouvia.
|
Robert M. Cieri |
04013933 |
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Soviet Meridian-class SigInt (Signal Intelligence) collection ship Kareliya (SSV 535) steaming alongside the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Texas (CGN 39). Texas was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) for a deployment in the Western Pacific from 15 June to 16 December 1988.
Official U.S. Navy photograph from the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) 1988 cruise book. |
Robert Hurst |
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image contributed by Mike Smolinski 
