History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Thomas |
Namesake | Clarence Crase Thomas |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company |
Laid down | 23 March 1918 |
Launched | 4 July 1918 |
Commissioned | 25 April 1919 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 17 June 1940 |
Decommissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Stricken | 8 January 1941 |
Identification | DD-182 |
Fate | Transferred to United Kingdom, 23 September 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS St Albans |
Namesake | St Albans |
Commissioned | 23 September 1940 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy in April 1941 |
Norway | |
Name | HNoMS St Albans |
Commissioned | 14 April 1941 |
Fate | Returned to United Kingdom, 4 May 1944[1] |
Soviet Union | |
Name | Dostoyny (Worthy) |
Acquired | 16 July 1944 |
Fate | Transferred to UK for scrapping, 28 February 1949 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Wickes-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,213 tons |
Length | 314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 8 in (9.65 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Complement | 101 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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The first USS Thomas (DD–182) was a Wickes-class destroyer of the United States Navy that entered service just after World War I.
She was transferred to the Royal Navy becoming the Town-class destroyer, HMS St Albans (I15) and was used for convoy escort work.
In April 1941 St Albans was transferred to the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy retaining her name as HNoMS St Albans
In mid-1944, St Albans was transferred to the Soviet Navy as Dostoyny.