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A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.
USS Texas (DLGN/CGN-39) was the United States Navy's second Virginia-class nuclear guided missile cruiser. She was the third ship of the Navy to be named in honor of the State of Texas . Her keel was laid down on 18 August 1973, at Newport News, Virginia , by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company .
The destroyer was decommissioned in November 1945 and sold for scrap in 1947. 8. USS Taylor (DD-468) ©national_museum_of_the_us_navy / Public Domain Flickr. WWII battle stars: 16 (tied)
Wickes-class destroyer: decommissioned at Halifax and transferred to the Royal Navy [1] 9 September United States Navy: Abel P. Upshur: Clemson-class destroyer: decommissioned at Halifax and transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Clare [2] 23 September United States Navy: Abbot: Wickes-class destroyer: decommissioned at Halifax and transferred to ...
USS Texas (1892) was a pre-dreadnought battleship that was in commission from 1895 to 1911. USS Texas (BB-35) is a New York-class dreadnought battleship that was in commission from 1914 to 1948. In 1948, she was decommissioned and immediately became a museum ship near Houston. USS Texas (CGN-39) was in commission
Decommissioned in 1947, the destroyer was recommissioned again in 1949 as an anti-submarine warfare platform. Its final decommission came later, in 1969. 14. USS San Diego (CL-53)
Orange, Texas has a long association with the U.S.Navy. Its shipyards build 39 destroyers, 93 destroyer escorts, 106 landing craft, and numerous other vessels in World War II. Orange was home for 250 "Mothball" ships of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet after WWII. Forty of these ships served in the Korean War.
USS Samuel B. Roberts (DD-823), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Samuel B. Roberts, a Navy coxswain who was killed evacuating Marines during the battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.