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USS Thomason
DE 203 (Buckley Class)
Builder: Charlston Navy Yard
Laid Down: June 5, 1943
Launched: August 23, 1943
Commissioned: December 10, 1943
Decommissioned: May 22, 1946
Fate: Stricken June 30, 1968 - Sold
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We are seeking information on the USS Thomason and her crews. Files
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and we will incorporate them into this page. When enough information
has been assembled we will then build the ship her own section.
The Buckley Class as Constructed
Displacement: 1,432 tons
Length: 306 feet
Beam: 37 feet
Draught: 11 feet 3 inches
Machinery: two Foster-Wheeler, Babcock & Wilcox
or Combustion Engineering boilers;
2-shaft G.E.C. turbines
Performance: 12,000 shp for 23 knots
Bunkerage: 340 tons
Range: 5,000 nautical miles at 15 knots
Guns: three 3 inch; four 1.1 inch; eight 20 mm
Torpedoes: three 21 inch
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USS Thomason DE 203
Photo courtesy Lee Miller
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