USS Smith Thompson (DD-212)
USS Smith Thompson (DD-212) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the only ship named for Secretary of the Navy Smith Thompson.
Famous quotes containing the words smith and/or thompson:
“Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“They smote and fell, who set the bars
Against the progress of the stars,
And stayed the march of Motherland!”
—Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)