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USS Thrush

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2022
Entity authorityQ7874734 ↗
Source-derived summary

USS Thrush may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

USS Thrush (AM-18), laid down on 27 May 1918 at Wilmington, Delaware.

USS Thrush (MSC-204), laid down as AMS-204 on 7 May 1954 at Tampa, Florida.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

Editorial summary

“USS Thrush” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Thrush, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1954—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Thrush, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

“USS Thrush” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Thrush, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 3, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q7874734. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1918 and 1954.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “USS Thrush” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.