Thomaston (LSD 28) - Naval Cruise Book

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TH OMA S TON 'S W The USS THOMAS TON is the first in her class of THOMAS TON CLASS l.SD's or Landing Ship Dock. The ship was first authorized by the Secretary of the Navy on February 28, l952, and designed by Gibbs and Cox Inc, of New York City. She was built by the Ingalls Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi. K er keel was laid on March 9, l953 and she was commissioned on September I 7, l954. THOMAS TON was named for Thomaston, Maine, the home of Major General Henry Knox, the nation 's first Secretary of War and civilian head of the Navy. After her commissioning THOMAS TON joined the Pacific Amphibious Force where her first assignment in volved the Arctic resupply project of the Dew Line and Cold Weather Landing exercise during i955-56. THOMAS TON commenced her first deployment to the Western Pacific in August of l95 7. During October, l962, THOMAS TON transited the Panama Canal to participate in the Cuban Quarantine Operations for two months. She returned home through the Panama Canal to her homeport of San Diego in December of that year. During THOMAS TON's sixth Western Pacific De lo ment fro O t b l964 p y m c o er to .lune l965, U.S. Marine Forces were landed at Da Nang and Chu Lai, Vietnam. The ship landed additional Marine Forces in l966, remaining in Da Nang for one month repairing boats used to offload merchant ships. 1 I 1' I g I VV v H 'nf V, J A lvl , -f H- a -a