Thomaston-class dock landing ship

The Thomaston class dock landing ship is a class of eight United States Navy dock landing ships.

The class of the ship is named after a town of Thomaston, Maine, which was the home of General Henry Knox, the first Secretary of War to serve under the United States Constitution.

The class was designed and approved in the early 1950s. The lead ship of her class, the first to be built was the Thomaston (LSD-28), which was laid down on 3 March 1953 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 9 February 1954, sponsored by Mrs. Mathias B. Gardner; and commissioned on 17 September 1954, Captain Marion F. Ramirez de Arellano in command.

Ships

 * USS Thomaston (LSD-28)
 * USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)
 * USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30)
 * USS Point Defiance (LSD-31)
 * USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32)
 * USS Alamo (LSD-33)
 * USS Hermitage (LSD-34)
 * USS Monticello (LSD-35)