USS Texas SSN-775

Type:
Submarine
Class:
Builder:
Northrop Grumman Newport News
Newport News, Virginia
Hull Number:
SSN-775
Ordered:
September 30, 1998
Commissioned:
September 9, 2007
Keel Laid:
July 12, 2002
Decommissioned:
Launched:
April 9, 2005
Stricken:
Fate:
Active in commission as of 2011
Assignment: Pacific Fleet.
Homeport: Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.


Dimensions, machinery and performance

Length:
377'
Engines:
S9G Nuclear Reactor
Beam:
34'
Motors:
N/A
Draft:
32'
Shafts:
1
Pressure Hull
Horsepower
Length:
N/A
Engines:
N/A
Diameter:
N/A
Motors:
N/A
Displacement
Speed
Surfaced:
Surfaced:
N/A
Submerged:
7,800
Submerged:
25+ knots
Diving Depth:
800'+
Range
Surfaced:
Unlimited
Crew:
134
Submerged:
Unlimited


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
4
21" (533mm) Horizontal torpedo tubes

12
21" (533mm) Vertical Launch System (VLS) tubes
48
Weapons including Tomahawk cruise missiles, Mk 48 torpedoes and Mk 60 mines


Commanders
From
To
Name
Sept. 9, 2007
Captain John J. Litherland USN


Notes:
July 31, 2004:
Christened by Mrs. Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States of America.


Builder's Data
Page revised Dec. 31, 2007