Thomaston class dock landing ship
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 USS Thomaston (LSD-28) |
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi[1] |
| Operators: |  United States Navy |
| Built: | 1953–1956 |
| In commission: | 1954–1990 |
| Completed: | 8 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Dock landing ship |
| Displacement: | 11,800 long tons (11,989 t) full load |
| Length: | 510 ft (160 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 600 psi boilers, 2 × geared turbines, 2 shafts, 24,000 shp (17,897 kW) |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)+ |
| Boats and landing craft carried: |
3 × LCU or 9 × LCM-8 or 50 × AAV/LVTP-7 amphibious tractors |
| Troops: | 325 |
| Complement: | 348 (18 officers, 330 enlisted) |
| Armament: | 4 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal Mk.33 AA guns (2 twin mounts) |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter landing area |
The Thomaston class dock landing ship is a class of eight United States Navy dock landing ships.
The class of the ship is named after a town of Thomaston, Maine, which was the home of General Henry Knox, the first Secretary of War to serve under the United States Constitution.[2]
The class was designed and approved in the early 1950s. The lead ship of her class, the first to be built was the Thomaston (LSD-28), which was laid down on 3 March 1953 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 9 February 1954, sponsored by Mrs. Mathias B. Gardner; and commissioned on 17 September 1954, Captain Marion F. Ramirez de Arellano in command.
[edit] Ships
- Thomaston (LSD-28)
- Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)
- Fort Snelling (LSD-30)
- Point Defiance (LSD-31)
- Spiegel Grove (LSD-32)
- Alamo (LSD-33)
- Hermitage (LSD-34)
- Monticello (LSD-35)
[edit] References
- ^ Bundschuh, Randy. "USS Thomaston (LSD-28) Characteristics". http://www.ussthomaston.com/history.html#TCLASS. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
- ^ "Thomaston". Naval Historical Center. http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t5/thomaston.htm. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
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