USS Thorn (DD-988)
![]() USS Thorn on 1 January 1984
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Name | Thorn |
Namesake | Jonathan Thorn |
Ordered | 15 January 1975 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 29 August 1977 |
Launched | 3 February 1979 |
Acquired | 21 January 1980 |
Commissioned | 16 February 1980 |
Decommissioned | 25 August 2004 |
Stricken | 25 August 2004 |
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Motto | Sharply Perseverant |
Fate | Sunk as target, 22 July 2006 |
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Class and type | Spruance-class destroyer |
Displacement | 8,040 (long) tons full load |
Length | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
Beam | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) |
Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
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Complement | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
USS Thorn (DD-988), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Jonathan Thorn (1779–1811), who took part in Decatur's expedition to destroy the captured frigate Philadelphia in 1804.[citation needed]
Construction and career[]
Thorn was laid down on 29 August 1977 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 3 February 1979; and commissioned on 16 February 1980.[citation needed]
Thorn was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on 25 August 2004.
Thorn was sunk as a test/target on 22 July 2006 off the US east coast.[citation needed]
Gallery[]
USS Thorn in the 1980s
USS Thorn and USS William V. Pratt in the Atlantic Ocean in 1981
USS Thorn in the Atlantic Ocean on 5 September 2003
USS Thorn on 1 October 1984
See also[]
- List of United States Navy destroyers
External links[]
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- Spruance-class destroyers
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