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Thompson (DD-627)
ex-DMS-38
ex-DD-627

Gleaves Class Destroyer/Ellyson Class Highspeed Minesweeper: Laid down 22 September 1941 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, WA; Launched, 15 July 1942; Commissioned USS Thompson (DD-627), 10 July 1943; Reclassified and converted to a High Speed Minesweeper, DMS-38, 30 May 1945; Placed in commission, in reserve in October 1953 at San Diego, CA; Decommissioned, 18 May 1954; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Bremerton, WA; Reclassified back to a Destroyer, DD-627, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1971; Sold for scrap 7 August 1972 to the American Ship Dismantlers, Inc. of Portland, Oregon.

Specifications: Displacement 1,630 t.(lt), 2,200 t.(fl); Length 347' 10"; Beam 36' 1" ; Draft 15' 8"; Speed 37 kts; Complement 272; Armament four single 5"/38 gun mounts, four 40mm, five 20mm, six dcp, two dct; Propulsion, four boilers, two steam turbines, two shafts.

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Thompson 81k Thompson, shortly after her conversion to a fast assault minesweeper.
National Archives Photo 19-N-58751		 Naval Historical Center
Thompson 70k - Joe Henke
Thompson 86k 4 July 1945
Off Charleston Navy Yard
National Archives photo BS 85753		 Joe Radigan
YTL-592 53k 17 October 1946
YTL-592 alongside Thompson at Navy Yard Mare Island.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo 3636-46		 Darryl Baker
Thompson 142k Starboard view of Thompson at Mare Island on 12 July 1948
U.S. Navy photo 1121-7-48		 Darryl Baker
Thompson 84k U.S. Navy photo from the January 1952 issue of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Thompson 149k U.S. Navy photo from the November 1952 issue of All Hands magazine Joe Radigan
Thompson 47k 11 February 1954
Off San Francisco, CA		 -
Thompson 68k 11 February 1954
Off San Francisco, CA		 Robert Hurst
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