Dock Landing Ship

LSD 28   -   USS Thomaston

 

 

 

USS Thomaston (LSD 28)

US Navy photo

Type, Class:

 

Dock Landing Ship; Thomaston - class;

Builder:

 

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA

STATUS:

 

Laid down:

Launched: February 9, 1954

Commissioned: September 17, 1954

Decommissioned: September 5, 1984

 

Struck from the Naval Register, February 2, 1992
Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, under temporary custody of the Maritime Administration (MARAD).
Final Disposition: sold, September 29, 1995 by MARAD to Pegasus Inc.
Repossessed by the Navy, July 1, 1997.
Permanent custody reassigned to MARAD, November 18, 1998 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Benecia, California and placed on sale list.

Homeport:

 

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Namesake:

 

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

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Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Dock Landing Ship / Thomaston - class

 

ship images

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

 

 

USS Thomaston (LSD 28):

 

 

 

patches

 

 

 

 

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