Thomaston-class dock landing ship
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The Thomaston class was a class of eight dock landing ships built for the United States Navy in the 1950s.
The class 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.[1]
Design
The Thomaston class was the third class of U.S. Navy dock landing ships. The class was designed under project SCB 75 and approved in the early 1950s. Compared to the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". dock landing ships of World War II, the ships of this class were about a third larger and five knots faster.[2] The class was designed to be able to transport:
- 3 Landing Craft Utility, or
- 9 LCM-8 Landing Craft Mechanized, or
- 16 LCM-6, or
- ca. 50 LVT-5 or later LVTP-7.
The dock was covered by removable segments that were able to carry the weight of two medium helicopters. Both cranes could lift weights of up to 50 tons. The machinery spaces were located underneath the dock, in contrast to the earlier Ashland class, where the machinery spaces were located to port and starboard of the dock.
Originally, all ships were armed with eight 3"/50 caliber gun Mark 33 twin mounts. The number was later reduced.
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Ships in class
| Ship Name | Hull number | Commissioned | Decommissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-28 | 17 September 1954 | 28 September 1984 | Sold for scrap, 28 July 2011 |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-29 | 29 November 1954 | 30 September 1983 | Sold for scrap, 25 August 1995 |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-30 | 24 January 1955 | 28 September 1984 | Sold for scrap, 25 August 1995 |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-31 | 31 March 1955 | 30 September 1983 | Sold for scrap, 28 July 2011 |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-32 | 8 June 1956 | 2 October 1989 | Sunk as an artificial reef, 2002 |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-33 | 24 August 1956 | 28 September 1990 | Transferred to Brazil, 12 November 1990; scrapped in Alang India 2015. |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-34 | 14 December 1956 | 2 October 1989 | Transferred to Brazil, 2 October 1989; sunk as target 2021. |
| Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | LSD-35 | 29 March 1957 | 1 October 1985 | Sunk as a target, 14 July 2010 |
References
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- ↑ Paul H. Silverstone: U.S. Warships since 1945. Ian Allan Ltd. Shepperton, Surrey (UK), 1986, p. 98. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Stefan Terzibaschitsch: 50 Jahre amphibische Schiffe der U.S. Navy, Leonberg, Germany 1995, p. 37.
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