USS Texas (CGN 39) was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drtdock Company and was commissioned September 10, 1977. The ship had an overall length of 585 feet with an extreme beam of 63 feet, and a crew of 575 manned the ship. Two nuclear fission reactors powering a set of geared turbines propelled the ship at speeds in excess of 30 knots. USS Texas was decommissioned July 16, 1993.