USS Thaddeus Parker
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Parker.
USS Thaddeus Parker (DE-369) was a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1951 to 1967. She was scrapped in 1968.
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United States | |
Name | Thaddeus Parker |
Namesake | Thaddeus Parker |
Builder | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 23 May 1944 |
Launched | 26 August 1944 |
Commissioned | 25 October 1944 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1946 |
Recommissioned | 21 September 1951 |
Decommissioned | 1 September 1967 |
Stricken | 1 September 1967 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 9 July 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,350 long tons (1,372 t) |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp (8,900 kW); 2 propellers |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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