Texas (CGN 39) - Naval Cruise Book

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The USS TEXAS CCGN-391 is the fifth ship to bear the name for the state of Texas. Of the previous four ships named for Texas, two were U.S. Navy ships and one served in the Texas Navy. Each of these ships has left her mark in history and two helped change the course of Naval Warfare and the History of Seapower. The first ship named for the State of Texas was a Sloop of War commissioned in the Texas Navy on Janu- ary 5th, 1840. The TEXAS was 125 feet long and weighed 600 tons. Consisting mainly of heavy oak frames and copper sheathing, she had eighteen 24-pound Co- lumbiad guns with 25 rounds of solid shot, 13 of canister, 12 of grape, and powder for 25 rounds per gun. Her compliment was 24 officers and 147 enlisted men, but she was never fully manned. The TEXAS was allowed 30 muskets, 10 pistols, and 30 cutlasses. She was to carry 8000 gallons of water, a 26 foot launch, and four smaller boats. On April 20th, 1840, President Lamar Cof the Confederate State of Texasj changed the name of the TEXAS to AUSTIN, and on May 11th, 1846, she ran aground and broke up. The second ship named TEXAS was originally a Con- federate twin-screw Iron-clad Ram. She was seized by Union forces in 1865 and taken to the Norfolk Navy Yard where she was sold in 1867. The first ship which was named for the State and saw service in the U.S. Navy was also the Navy's first.Battle- ship. She was launched in 1889 at the Norfolk Navy Yard under the sponsorship of Miss Madge Houston, Granddaughter of Sam Houston. She cruised to Galves- ton in 1898 to be visited by the citizens of Texas. The night she arrived there, the Battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor in an appalling catastrophy which preci- pitated the Spanish-American War. Beginning in 1898, TEXAS was in constant blockade patrol between San- tiago and Guantanamo Bay. In July of that year, TEXAS was involved in the battle in which the entire Spanish fleet was either captured or destroyed at Santiago.