USS Thomas (DD-182)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Thomas and HMS St Albans.

USS Thomas (DD-182)
History
United States
NameUSS Thomas
NamesakeClarence Crase Thomas
BuilderNewport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Laid down23 March 1918
Launched4 July 1918
Commissioned25 April 1919
Decommissioned30 June 1922
Recommissioned17 June 1940
Decommissioned23 September 1940
Stricken8 January 1941
IdentificationDD-182
FateTransferred to United Kingdom, 23 September 1940
United Kingdom
NameHMS St Albans
NamesakeSt Albans
Commissioned23 September 1940
FateTransferred to Royal Norwegian Navy in April 1941
Norway
NameHNoMS St Albans
Commissioned14 April 1941
FateReturned to United Kingdom, 4 May 1944[1]
Soviet Union
NameDostoyny (Worthy)
Acquired16 July 1944
FateTransferred to UK for scrapping, 28 February 1949
General characteristics
Class and typeWickes-class destroyer
Displacement1,213 tons
Length314 ft 4+1⁄2 in (95.822 m)
Beam31 ft 8 in (9.65 m)
Draft9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Speed35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement101 officers and enlisted
Armament

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.

  1. ^ a b Dashyan, A.V.: Korabli Vtoroy mirovoy voyny – VMS Polshy i stran Skandinavii (Danii, Norwegii, Shvetsii i Finlandii) (Корабли Второй мировой войны – ВМС Польши и стран Скандинавии (Дании, Норвегии, Швеции и Финляндии)), Morskaya Kollektsya nr. 3/2005 (in Russian)