USS Thomaston (LSD-28)
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| Name: | USS Thomaston |
| Namesake: | Thomaston, Maine |
| Awarded: | 28 February 1952 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 3 March 1953 |
| Launched: | 9 February 1954 |
| Commissioned: | 17 September 1954 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 September 1984 |
| Struck: | 24 February 1992 |
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| Fate: | Sold for Scrapping 28 July 2011 to All Star Metals, Brownsville, Tx |
| Status: | undergoing scrapping |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Thomaston-class dock landing ship |
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| Length: | 510 ft (160 m) |
| Beam: | 84 ft (26 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × steam turbines, 2 shafts, 23,000 shp (17 MW) |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
21 × LCM-6 landing craft in well deck |
| Troops: | 300 |
| Complement: | 304 |
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| Aircraft carried: | One helicopter |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter landing area usually of wood construction; no hangar |
USS Thomaston (LSD-28) was the lead ship of her class of dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Thomaston, Maine, the home of General Henry Knox, the first Secretary of War to serve under the United States Constitution.
Thomaston (LSD-28) was laid down on 3 March 1953 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 9 February 1954, sponsored by Mrs. Mathias B. Gardner; and commissioned on 17 September 1954, Captain Marion F. Ramirez de Arellano in command.
Following shakedown in the Caribbean, Thomaston transited the Panama Canal and joined the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force. From July through October 1955, Thomaston participated in the Arctic Resupply Project, provisioning stations on the Distant Early Warning Line before taking part in cold-weather landing exercises in the Aleutians in November 1955 and again in January and February 1956.
The landing ship's duties soon took her southward to the warmer climes of the Hawaiian Islands, where she conducted local operations and exercises in March and April. On hand in Santa Barbara, California, from 2 July to 9 July, for the Semana Nautica Celebration, Thomaston returned to the Hawaiian Islands and participated in three landing exercises in the autumn before returning to the west coast to conduct exercises off the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, California, during the spring of 1957.
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