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DE- 369 USS THADDEUS PARKER

Class: John C. Butler Type:WGT (geared-turbine drive, 5" guns)
Displacement: 1,350/1745 tons Dimensions: 306' (oa) x 36' 10" x 13'4" (max)
Armament: 2-5"/38, 4 (2x2) 40mmAA, 10-20mm AA, 3-21" TT, 1 Hedgehog, 8 DCT's, 2 DC tracks
Machinery: 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 24 knots Range: 6000 nm@12 knots Crew: 14 / 201

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX on 23 May 1944
Launched 26 August 1944, Commissioned 25 October 1944
Decommissioned 31 May 1946, Recommissioned 21 September 1951
Assigned to NRT, 3rd Naval District at Bayonne NJ 11 November 1957
Decommissioned 1 September 1967, Stricken 1 September 1967

Fate: Sold for scrap, 9 July 1968 to Peck Iron & Metals Co., Portsmouth VA

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T. Parker 89kb off Vieques, Puerto Rico, 5/52
USN Photo 446907
Nick Tiberio
USS Coates
(5/65-9/67, 1/69-1/70)
T. Parker 68kb Entering home port at Port Newark NJ early 1960's Stanley J Zalewski
T. Parker 49kb dry docked in Puerto Rico for rudder repair, 1961 Stanley J. Zalewski BT3
T. Parker 69kb Newport Rhode Island, May 1967.
DeLong (DE-684) inboard
© Richard Leonhardt
T. Parker 58kb ships patch, WWII Stanley Zalewski
T. Parker 64kb ships patch, circa '58 Stanley Zalewski
T. Parker 47kb ship's patch, mid-'60's Mike Smolinski

View the Thaddeus Parker (DE-369)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None Located
Contact Name:none
Address:none
Phone:none
E-mail:none


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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