USS Thaddeus Parker
Service
- as Thaddeus Parker25 October 1944 — 1 September 1967312 days of the war
- Name
- USS Thaddeus Parker
- Namesake
- Thaddeus Parker
- Builder
- Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
- Laid down
- 23 May 1944
- Launched
- 26 August 1944
- Commissioned
- 25 October 1944
- Decommissioned
- 31 May 1946
- Recommissioned
- 21 September 1951
- Struck
- 1 September 1967
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping 9 July 1968 (1968)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 10.97 m (36 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 6,000 nmi (11,112 km)
- Complement
- 215
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
USS Thaddeus Parker was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. The ship was named after Thaddeus Parker. Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas laid her keel on 23 May 1944. She entered service on 25 October 1944, having been launched on 26 August 1944.
Her class ran to 81 ships. The class followed the Rudderow-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Dealey-class destroyer escort.
She displaced 1,350 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.0 m (36 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 215.
Her main battery was two 127 mm (5 in) guns.
She was in commission for 312 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 31 May 1946. She recommissioned on 21 September 1951. She was struck from the register on 1 September 1967.
She was broken up for scrap on 9 July 1968.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12000 shp; 2 propellers
- Armament
- 2 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns
- 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 8 × depth charge throwers
- 1 × Hedgehog ASW mortar
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
- USS Abercrombie
- USS Albert T. Harris
- USS Bivin
- USS Cecil J. Doyle
- USS Charles E. Brannon
- USS Chester T. O’Brien
- USS Conklin
- USS Corbesier (DE-438)
- USS Cross
- USS Dennis
- USS Douglas A. Munro
- USS Doyle C. Barnes
- USS Dufilho
- USS Edmonds
- USS Edward H. Allen
- USS Edwin A. Howard
- USS Eversole (DE-404)
- USS Formoe
- USS French
- USS Gentry
- USS George E. Davis
- USS Gilligan
- USS Goss
- USS Grady
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Thaddeus Parker on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — U.S. Navy photo USN 1043473 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons