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NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hydrographic survey vessel in service since 2003. The ship was built for the United States Navy as USNS Littlehales (T-AGS-52) serving as one of two new coastal hydrographic survey vessels from 1992 until transfer to NOAA in 2003 when it was named after Founding Father and third U.S. president, Thomas ...
Thomas Jefferson has had one ship named in his honor before his death, as well as a submarine in the 20th century: USS Jefferson was launched in 1814; USS Thomas Jefferson in service 1942–1955. President Jackson-class attack transport; USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), in commission 1963–1986.
SS Thomas Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson: 175 standard 18 July 1941: 7 December 1941: Scrapped 1961 SS Thomas Johnson: Thomas Johnson: 659 standard 21 September 1942: 24 October 1942: Sold private 1947, scrapped 1968 SS Thomas Kearns: Thomas Kearns: 462 standard 11 January 1943: 12 February 1943: Scrapped 1961 SS Thomas L. Clingman: Thomas L ...
USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), an Ethan Allen class nuclear-powered submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809). She later was reclassified as an attack submarine and redesignated SSN-618.
USS Thomas Jefferson (APA-30), serving from 1 May 1942 until 18 July 1955, was a transport and then reclassified on 1 February 1943 as a President Jackson-class attack transport. [1] She was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 56) as President Garfield on 5 February 1940 at Newport News, Virginia , by the Newport News ...
USS Thomas Jefferson may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Thomas Jefferson (APA-30) was an attack transport in service from 1941 to 1949, and scrapped in 1974; USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618) was an Ethan Allen-class ballistic missile submarine commissioned in 1963. She remained on active service until 1985.
The first ship to be named Marietta by the Navy, she was a 5 gun, 28-oared row gunboat.She was built from 1803 to 1805 by Edward W. Tupper of Marietta, Ohio, as part of the fleet of gunboats President Thomas Jefferson planned to use as America's first line of coastal defense.
Former president George H. W. Bush views a model of USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the aircraft carrier named after him.. The naming of United States Navy vessels after living people was common in the earliest years of American history, but as the 20th century began, the Navy had firmly established a practice of naming ships for people only after they had died. [1]