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- Code Number:
- MYNV17P06_18
- Title:
- USS Truxtun (DLGN-35), nuclear powered cruiser, Later CGN-35, USN, United States Navy
- Name: USS Truxtun
Namesake: Commodore Thomas Truxtun USN
Ordered: 23 June 1962
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey
Laid down: 17 June 1963
Launched: 19 December 1964
Acquired: 26 May 1967
Commissioned: 27 May 1967
Decommissioned: 11 September 1995
Struck: 11 September 1995
Fate: disposed of by Ship recycling, 16 April 1999
Class and type: Heavily modified nuclear variant of Belknap class cruiser
Displacement: 8,659 tons (full)
Length: 564 feet (172 m)
Beam: 58 feet (18 m)
Draft: 30 feet 6 in (9.30 m)
Propulsion: 2 GE pressurized-water D2G nuclear reactors
2 shafts
70,000 shp
Speed: 31 kt
Range: Nuclear
Complement: 492 officers and enlisted. Flag accommodations for 6 officers and 12 enlisted.
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR
AN/SPS-40 air search RADAR
AN/SPS-48 3D air search RADAR
2 AN/SPG-55 Terrier fire control RADAR
AN/SQS-26 SONAR
Armament: 1 5"/54 DP Mk 42 gun
1 twin Mk 10 Mod 7 missile launcher for Standard ER and ASROC missiles
3 20-missile horizontal drums in magazine
2 2 12.75" Mk 32 fixed ASW torpedo tubes
2 4 Harpoon anti-ship missile tubes
2 Phalanx CIWS
aircraft carried: facilities for 1 SH-2F LAMPS-II
Motto: Ars navigandi - Fidelitas - Imperium
Skillful navigation, Faithfulness and Power - Keywords:
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