#USS Texas (CGN-39)

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USS Texas (CGN-39) arriving at Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand, circa August 1983.

Photos from USS Texas (CGN-39) Cruise Book: link

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USS TEXAS (CGN-39)

Underway on trials, 19 June 1977. Nara Image

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^@! Vintage USS Texas CGN-39 Gunner Embroidered Snapback Hat Made in USA Rare Find https://ift.tt/2Xtjjq0

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USS Texas (CGN-39) направляется к авианосцу USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70).

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The issue of nuclear ship visits became significant for New Zealanders in the 1980s. Between 1978 and 1983, opposition to nuclear-armed vessels visiting NZ rose from 32% to 72%. Widespread protests greeted the arrival of the nuclear-powered cruiser USS Texas (CGN-39) in Auckland in August 1983. These protesters on Mercer Street, Wellington, wore grotesque masks and carried a papier-mâché Statue of Liberty wielding a nuclear missile. 

The Muldoon-led National government saw these visits as expressing New Zealand’s support for ANZUS and the country’s relationship with the United States.

Nuclear ship visits became an election issue in 1984 and David Lange’s Labour government.

In late 1984, the US requested the ageing destroyer USS Buchanan (DDG-14) visit NZ. It was not armed with nuclear missiles, though it was with nuclear depth bombs. It seemed the hope was that, since she wasn't armed with nuclear missiles, it would be enough to slip under the political radar.

Nuclear ship visits became an election issue in 1984 and David Lange’s Labour government had won -- and on 4 February, 1985, the NZ government refused to allow Buchanan's entry. DC severed intelligence and military ties with NZ in response, and the USA stopped maintaining its security guarantee to NZ. It took until 2011 for the RNZN to be allowed into USN ports again, and to reinstate the New Zealand part of the ANZUS agreement.

The USN was invited to the 75th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s creation, back in November, 2016. They sent a ship, one without nuclear weaponry -- USS Sampson (DDG-102). It was expected that there would be protests when she arrived, and as a matter of act, there almost were.

But just hours before she sailed into Auckland harbour, the earthquakes that rocked New Zealand and cut off Kaikoura hit. Immediately, Sampson was asked to help the RNZN, and within minutes she was sailing straight back out. America’s first visit in thirty-three years ended up being a humanitarian mission. Along with Sampson was the RNZN’s own Te Kaha, Canterbury, Wellington, and Endeavour, Australia’s HMAS Darwin, and Canada’s HMCS Vancouver.

Fun fact about Sampson: she is one of the destroyers sunk during the movie Battleship (2012).

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night at the museum

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USS CORONADO, AGF-11 Looking at old mementos this evening,  of my days in the Navy makes me feel, well “Well-seasoned”.  As I look back,  the ships where I was a crewmember are all now dismantled,  and sunk to the depths of the ocean. USS TEXAS, CGN-39 The USS TEXAS, a nuclear -powered missile cruiser was several firsts for me: first year at sea; designation as an Enlisted Surface Warfare…

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Launch of USS Texas (CGN-39) at Newport News Shipbuilding on August 9, 1975.

The photo is from the USS Texas cruise book.

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USS Texas (CGN-39) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, circa 1980s.

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USS Texas (CGN-39) under police escort, Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand, circa August 1983.

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USS TEXAS (CGN-39)

Underway on trials, 19 June 1977. Nara Image

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Two California class, USS California (CGN 36), USS South Carolina (CGN 37) and four Virginia class, USS Virginia (CGN 38), USS Texas (CGN 39), USS Mississippi (CGN 40) and USS Arkansas (CGN 41).

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Task Group 401.1 underway during a joint Canadian and U.S. Naval Exercise Teamwork 80. From left to right: HMCS Athabaskan (DDH-282), HMCS Ottawa (DDH-229), USS Texas (CGN-39), USS Nimitz (CVN-68), HMCS Assiniboine (DDH-234), USS Caron (DD-970) AND HMCS Protecteur (AOR-509).

Photographed on January 1, 1984.

NARA: 6378755

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USS Texas (CGN-39) steams toward aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the Arabian Sea, on September 1, 1988.

NARA: 6475427

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USS Texas (CGN-39) and a Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser docked to a pier in San Diego.

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USS Texas (CGN-39) anchored in Auckland, New Zealand, on August 5, 1983.

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USS Texas (CGN-39) on her second deployment with USS Nimitz (CVN-68), USS Mississippi (CGN-40), USS Biddle (CG-34) and her Carrier Battle Group in the Mediterranean Sea.

Photographed by PH3 Cruz was taken on August 1, 1981.

NARA: 6391568, 6391565, 6391564

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