USS Texas (SSN-775)
The fourth
USS Texas (SSN-775), will be the second
Virginia-class nuclear attack
submarine when she joins the fleet in
2005. She will be the fourth ship named in honor of
Texas, a region that, after being taken from its natives by first
Spain and then
Mexico, and later becoming an independent republic, was admitted to the
United States as the 28th state on
December 29,
1845.
For the other ships of the United States Navy that have borne the
name USS Texas, see that index page.