USS Thatcher (DD-162)
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USS Thatcher underway, circa 1920
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Thatcher |
| Namesake: | Henry K. Thatcher |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 8 June 1918 |
| Launched: | 31 August 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 14 January 1919 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 September 1940 |
| Struck: | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification: | DD-162 |
| Fate: | Transferred to UK, 24 September 1940 |
 Canada
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| Name: | HMCS Niagara |
| Namesake: | Niagara River |
| Acquired: | 24 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 May 1946 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: I57 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1940-44 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wickes-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,191 tons |
| Length: | 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft 11 1⁄4 in (9.430 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
| Speed: | 35 kn (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Complement: | 122 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Thatcher (DD–162) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Niagara.
Named for Admiral Henry K. Thatcher, she was laid down on 8 June 1918 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Fore River Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. The ship was launched on 31 August 1918; sponsored by Miss Doris Bentley, the grandniece of Rear Admiral Thatcher. Thatcher was commissioned on 14 January 1919, Lieutenant Commander Henry M. Kieffer in temporary command. On 25 January, Lt. Comdr. Francis W. Rockwell—who later commanded the 16th Naval District in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific—assumed command.
Following shakedown, Thatcher operated with the Atlantic Fleet into the autumn of 1919. During the transatlantic NC-boat flights in May 1919, the destroyer operated on picket station number 9—one of 21 stations strung out from Newfoundland to the Azores—between her sister ships Walker and Crosby. Underway at sea, she provided visual and radio bearings for the flying boats as they passed overhead on their way toward Lisbon, Portugal.
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