Truxtun (DLGN 35) - Naval Cruise Book

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' - - . -- N .1 - ri' V:-L 4' lx - Y- .Q ' 2?-.C V .,-J. 5- P ' ' 1 ' 'A -- ' ' Truxtun commanded several privateers during the Revolutionary War. He quickly be- came a naval hero, after a string of stunning victories, scattered across the Atlantic. He captured nine British vessels during his com- mand of the INDEPENDENCE and the MARS. In exciting action off the Delaware Capes, his ship ST. JAMES defeated the British priva- teer GOODRICH. At the time, Truxtun was en- route to France with Thomas Braclay, the new consul A general. Truxtun returned from France with the .most valuable powder cargo entered at , Philadelphia duringthe war. Washington was so impressed that he declared Truxtun's ser- vices worth a regiment., After the war, Truxtun returned to his life as a merchant captain. However, in 1794 Con- gress voted to create a permanent Navy and construct six frigates to counter the French forces threatening American shipping. Truxtun was appointed by the President to command the CONSTELLATION, being built in Baltimore. In the summer of 1798, Truxtun sailed for the Caribbean, where he captured the frigate L'INSURGENTE. The following year CONSTEL- LATION severely damaged the fifty-four gun LA VEGENCE. These were the largest of more than ninety enemy ships defeated by American vessels during the conflict. After this action, Truxtun retired from Naval sea duty. He died in Philadelphia in 1822.

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THE COMMODORE and ' l THE CON TELLA TION ' Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U.S.N. Thomas Truxtun was born in 1755 near Hempstead, Long Island, New York. At the age of twelve Truxtun entered the British merchant service, in which he served for seven years. At the age of twenty he returned to America and gained his first command, amerchantman. Dur- ing the Revolutionary War, Truxtun commanded ships from the Caribbean to the eastern At- lantic. Truxtun was famous for his performance in naval battles, yet his contributions to the fledgling American Navy included considerably more than victories alone. Truxtun formulated fair and effective methods of discipline and training. He wrote a treatise on celestial navi- gation and was one of the few men of his day who extensively understood the art. He designed the original Navy signal flag manual and wrote the forerunner of today's Navy Regulations. Truxtun's contributions form a significant part of the foundation on which 'today's Navy has been built.

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'inf Qhonoiigoig a asf TFUXWHQ -TW . .Sig 1. c om Ili i s s,i9b-snieadff 'iin served ' efOif5'inostii3ofl1' the 1 gneqrt three' years Q 5 druiSi1iEe1.,0ff:fIh? African Y and Am6I iC5i151QC03StSfk supressing' 'the 'slave trade, patrolling the .Caribbeanf and southern Gulf of' Mexicorg ing the Mexican 'War,f the brig TRUXTUN went. hard aground off the coast of Mexico on 5 August 1846. Three days later she was declared ,a total loss. To prevent salvage by the ene- my, the ship was burned by. a U.S. squadron which arrived too late to rescue her. A . TR UXTUN'S. . . -N.,-' The secondTRUXTUN, torpedo 'boat destroyer 14, was commissioned on S e pt e m b e r 1902. Until 1907, she was at- tached to the Atlantic Coastal Squadron, -cruising from Rhode Isla nd, s o uth to Charleston, South Carolina, and Key West, Florida. In late 911907, she sailed around Cape Horn for duty in the northern Pacific, where she engaged in coastal. operations. In, 1917, TRUXTUN returned to the lAt1antic,f .assuming anti- submarine and , convoy duties until the end of World War sa-' I . She was decommissioned in July 9191945 J in 'Q 1