US NAVY - USS TRUXTUN (CGN-35) Challenge Coin with Presentation Box for Sale

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US NAVY - USS TRUXTUN (CGN-35) Challenge Coin with Presentation Box For Sale

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US NAVY - USS TRUXTUN (CGN-35) Challenge Coin with Presentation Box:
$19.99

This is a great looking US NAVY - USS TRUXTUN (CGN-35) challenge coin. It has a great looking colorized photo on the front and a NAVY emblem on the reverse side. Coin has reeded edges and is about 1 9/16\" in diameter. Front side of coin is printed and colorized while the rear side is raised lettering and gold plated. Coin is contained in an acrylic air tight holder and displayed in an attractive blue velvet presentation box which will make this a very impressive gift.The fifth USS Truxtun (DLGN-35/CGN-35) was a nuclear powered cruiser in the U S Navy. She was launched as a destroyer leader (called a \"frigate\" at the time) and later reclassified as a cruiser. She was named after Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822). She was in service from May 1967 to September 1995.The USS Truxtun was a nuclear-powered single-ended guided missile cruiser (her missile armament was installed only aft, unlike \"double-ended\" cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft), based on a heavily modified version of the Belknap-class. She was the only ship of her class. Truxtun was the third type of nuclear cruiser (all three were one-ship classes) to operate in the United States Navy, after USS Long Beach (CGN_9) and USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), and was powered by the same D2G reactors as Bainbridge.Truxtun was originally designated as a nuclear-powered guided missile destroyer leader (DLGN), but in the 1975 cruiser realignment, she was reclassified as a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser (CGN).

Truxtun was decommissioned on 11 September 1995 and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. She has been disposed of by Ship Recycling, 16 April 1999.

Truxtun was awarded seven battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation for service in the Vietnam War.

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