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USS Thornton
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS ''Thornton'' for James Thornton. * The first was a torpedo boat A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of s ..., commissioned in 1902, decommissioned and redesignated ''Coastal Torpedo Vessel No. 16'' in 1918. * The second was a , commissioned in 1918 and decommissioned in 1945. {{DEFAULTSORT:Thornton United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the United States as of 2015. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2019) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, two new carriers under construction, and five other carriers planned. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the United States Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 290 deployable combat vessels and more than 2,623 operational aircraft . The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Thornton (naval Officer)
James Shepard Thornton (25 February 1826 – 14 May 1875) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Biography Born at Merrimack, New Hampshire, Thornton was appointed midshipman on 15 January 1841 and served in the sloop-of-war ''John Adams'' during the Mexican–American War. The outbreak of the Civil War found him serving on the Atlantic coast in brig ''Bainbridge''. He later became executive officer in David Farragut's flagship and was serving in her when she and other ships of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron dashed past Forts St. Philip and Jackson on 24 April 1862 to capture New Orleans, Louisiana. He continued to serve in ''Hartford'', with great credit, during the engagement with the Confederate ram ''Arkansas'', during duels with the Vicksburg batteries, and in other operations on the Mississippi River. In August 1862, he assumed command of gunboat ''Winona'' which was stationed with the Union blockading force off Mobile Bay, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpedo Boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. These were inshore craft created to counter both the threat of battleships and other slow and heavily armed ships by using speed, agility, and powerful torpedoes, and the overwhelming expense of building a like number of capital ships to counter an enemy's. A swarm of expendable torpedo boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large but cumbersome guns. A fleet of torpedo boats could pose a similar threat to an adversary's capital ships, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them. The introduction of fast torpedo boats in the late 19th century was a serious concern to the era's naval strategists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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