USS Truxtun (DLGN-35)

USS Truxtun (CGN-35)
History
United States
Name:	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
Motto:	Ars navigandi – Fidelitas – Imperium Skillful navigation, Faithfulness and Power
Fate:	Disposed of by Ship recycling, 16 April 1999 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Heavily modified nuclear variant of Belknap-class cruiser
Displacement:	8,659 tons (full)
Length:	564 ft (172 m)
Beam:	58 ft (18 m)
Draft:	30 ft 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 accommodation 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 in (130 mm)/54 DP Mk 42 gun 1 twin Mk 10 Mod 8 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

The fifth USS Truxtun (DLGN-35/CGN-35) was a nuclear powered cruiser in the U.S. Navy. She was launched as a destroyer leader (called a "frigate" at the time) and later reclassified as a cruiser. She was named after Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822). She was in service from May 1967 to September 1995.

The USS Truxtun was a nuclear-powered single-ended guided missile cruiser (her missile armament was installed only aft, unlike "double-ended" cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft), based on a heavily modified version of the Belknap-class. She was the only ship of her class. Truxtun was the third type of nuclear cruiser (all three were one-ship classes) to operate in the United States Navy, after USS Long Beach (CGN-9) and USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), and was powered by the same D2G reactors as Bainbridge. Truxtun was originally designated as a nuclear-powered guided missile destroyer leader (DLGN), but in the 1975 cruiser realignment, she was reclassified as a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser (CGN).

Virtually identical to the Belknap class in weapons systems, Truxtun was powered by two D2G reactors rather than her sister class's four 1,200 psi boilers. This resulted in Truxtun being larger overall: 17 feet (5.2 m) longer, 3 feet (0.91 m) greater across the beam, a 2-foot-deeper (0.61 m) draft, and a displacement of almost 1,200 more tons. The lessons learned on the Truxtun class were later adapted to the next nuclear classes, the California and Virginia classes of nuclear-powered cruisers.

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