USS Thompson (DD-627)

Thompson in May 1944
History
Name	Thompson
Namesake	Robert Means Thompson
Builder	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	22 September 1941
Launched	15 July 1942
Commissioned	10 July 1943
Reclassified	DMS-38, 30 May 1945
Decommissioned	18 May 1954
Stricken	1 July 1971
Fate	Sold for scrap, 7 August 1972
General characteristics
Class and type	Gleaves-class destroyer
Displacement	1,630 tons
Length	348 ft 3 in (106.15 m)
Beam	36 ft 1 in (11.00 m)
Draft	11 ft 10 in (3.61 m)
Propulsion	50,000 shp (37 MW); 4 boilers; 2 propellers
Speed	37.4 knots (69 km/h)
Range	6,500 nautical miles at 12 kt   (12,000 km at 22 km/h)
Complement	16 officers, 260 enlisted
Armament	4 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber DP guns   4 × 40 mm (2×2) and 7 × 20 mm (5×1) AA guns, 5× 21 in (53 cm) torpedo tubes (1x5; 5 Mark 15 torpedoes) 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Thompson (DD-627) (later DMS-38) was first a Gleaves-class destroyer, then became an Ellyson-class destroyer minesweeper. She was the second Navy ship named "Thompson", and the first named in honor of Robert M. Thompson.