USS Thompson (DD-305), a Clemson-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), never saw action against an enemy. She was the first Navy ship of that name; the second, Thompson (DD-627), named for Robert M. Thompson, served during World War II and the Korean War.
USS Thompson, during the middle or later 1920s
Domain of Neptunus Rex, USS Thompson, presented to sailor Thomas Bickett Jr, 6 July 1925.
The Clemson class was a series of 156 destroyers which served with the United States Navy from after World War I through World War II.
USS Barker in 1928
Overhead view of USS Lamson.
Seventy-seven "four-stackers" laid up at San Diego in 1924.
Clemson-class destroyer (possibly USS Pope) sinking, c. 1942.