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DD-627 / DMS-38 Thompson


Gleaves Class Destroyer: Laid down, 22 September 1941 at 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; Decommissioned, 18 May 1954; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; Reclassified back to a Destroyer DD-627, 15 July 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1971; Sold for scrapping, 7 August 1972 to the American Ship Dismantlers, Inc., 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 47k - -
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

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
NavSource DD Pages, USS Thompson (DD-627)
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen

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