USS Virginia (CGN-38) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser, the lead ship of her class, and the eighth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was commissioned in 1976 and decommissioned in 1994.

The USS VIRGINIA (CGN-38), the first of the nuclear powered Virginia class cruisers, was commissioned on 11 SEP 1976. USS VIRGINIA was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia.

The fifth Virginia (CGN-38) was laid down on 19 August 1972 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. as a nuclear-powered, guided-missile frigate, DLGN-38; launched on 14 December...

The Virginia class (also known as the CGN-38 class) were four nuclear-powered, guided-missile cruisers that served in the United States Navy until the mid-to-late 1990s. The double-ended cruisers (with missile armament carried both fore and …

planned, built and launched as Guided Missile Frigate (DLGN 38); reclassified to Guided missile Cruiser (CGN) - Virginia class; commissioned as CGN 38; Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, USA. STATUS: Awarded: December 21, 1971. Laid down: August 19, 1972. Launched: December 14, 1974. Reclassified CGN ...

Home Page for the decommissioned US Navy nuclear cruiser USS Virginia (CGN-38). Includes pictures and info on former crewmembers.

USS Virginia (CGN-38) History. Built in Virginia by Virginians, USS VIRGINIA was constructed at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Her sponsor was Virginia Stuart Warner, daughter of then Secretary of the Navy and now senior US Senator from Virginia. The ship was commissioned on 11 September 1976 in a ceremony at Norfolk Naval Base.

The Virginia-class nuclear guided-missile cruisers (CGN-38 class) were a series of four double-ended (with armament carried both fore and aft) guided-missile cruisers commissioned in the late 1970s, which served in the US Navy until the mid- to late-1990s.

2024年5月6日 · An elevated starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS VIRGINIA (CGN 38) underway off the coast of Cape Henry, Virginia (VA). They were however the first to use the new SQS-53A sonar and associated Mk116 fire control system.

USS Virginia (or rather, what was left after decommissioning) spent her last years with other decommissioned nuclear powered vessels in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, at Bremerton, WA. The picture below shows Virginia moored alongside the USS Texas (CGN-39).