Cruiser Texas cowboy hat

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Battleship Texas Foundation

Name/Title

Cruiser Texas cowboy hat

Entry/Object ID

2025.1014.73

Description

Gray cowboy hat with a brown leather band. Band has alternating Cruiser Texas emblems of it imprinted into the leather, and a circular coin with color. Back says "CAPTAIN" on the band. Hat made by the Texas Hatters.

Context

USS Texas (CGN-39) was the 3rd ship named USS Texas. She was a Virginia-class nuclear guided-missile cruiser commissioned from September 10, 1977, to July 16, 1993. She entered the nuclear recycling program on October 1, 1999. Peter Fiedler was the first captain of the nuclear cruiser USS Texas (CGN-39) from October 1975 to January 1979. He supervised construction, and took official command on September 10, 1977, when the cruiser was commissioned.

Collection

Collection (Peter B. Fiedler), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Hat, Cowboy

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Hat

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Headwear

Nomenclature Class

Clothing

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects