Four ships of the United States Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

 have borne the name USS Texas, in honor of the state of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

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, the US Navy's first battleship, which served from 1895 until 1911, a New York-class dreadnought battleship that served in both World Wars, the second Virginia-class nuclear guided missile cruiser (commissioned on 9 September 2006), the second Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine