&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USS_Thatcher_(DD-162)_underway_c1920.jpg) USS Thatcher underway, circa 1920
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| 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 | 7 June 1922 |
| Recommissioned | 18 December 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 24 September 1940 |
| Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
| Identification | DD-162 |
| Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 24 September 1940 |
 Canada | |
| 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.