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USS Thorn (DD-647)
Gleaves-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Thorn.
USS Thorn (DD-647), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Jonathan Thorn.
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Name | Thorn |
Namesake | Jonathan Thorn |
Builder | Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 15 November 1942 |
Launched | 28 February 1943 |
Commissioned | 1 April 1943 |
Decommissioned | 6 May 1946 |
Stricken | 1 July 1971 |
Fate | Sunk as target, 22 August 1974 |
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Class and type | Gleaves-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,630 tons (standard) |
Length | 348 ft 3 in (106.15 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 1 in (11.00 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 10 in (3.61 m) |
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Speed | 37.4 knots (69 km/h) |
Range | 6,500 nmi (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 16 officers, 260 enlisted |
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Thorn was laid down on 15 November 1942 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; sponsored by Mrs. Beatrice Fox Palmer and launched on 28 February 1943. The ship was commissioned on 1 April 1943 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.