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USS Thorn (DD-988) escorts USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
USS Thorn escorts USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
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| Career
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| Awarded:
| 15 January 1975
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| Laid down:
| 29 August 1977
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| Launched:
| 3 February 1979
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| Commissioned:
| 16 February 1980
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| Decommissioned:
| 25 August 2004
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| Struck:
| 25 August 2004
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| Fate:
| to be disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 tons full load
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| Length:
| 529 ft waterline; 563 ft overall (161, 172 m)
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| Beam:
| 55 ft (16.8 m)
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| Draft:
| 29 ft (8.8 m)
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 × shafts.
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| Speed:
| 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6,000 nm (11,000 km) at 20 knots; 3,300 nm at 30 knots (56 km/h)
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| Complement:
| 19 officers, 315 enlisted
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| Armament:
| 2 × 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 × 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 × quadruple Harpoon missile canisters.
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| Aircraft:
| 2 × SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
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| Motto:
| Sharply Perseverant
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USS Thorn (DD-988), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Jonathan Thorn (1779–1811), who took part in Decatur's expedition to destroy the captured frigate Philadelphia in 1804.
Thorn was laid down on 29 August 1977 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 3 February 1979; and commissioned on 16 February 1980.
Thorn was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on 25 August 2004.
See USS Thorn for other ships of the same name.
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