USS Groves
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Name | USS Groves |
Namesake | Ensign Stephen W. Groves (1917-1942), U.S. Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | Never |
Commissioned | Never |
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Class and type | John C. Butler-class destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,350 tons |
Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 5 in (3 m) |
Propulsion | 2 boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp; 2 propellers |
Speed | 24 knots (44 km/h) |
Range | 6,000 nmi. (12,000 km) @ 12 kt |
Complement | 14 officers, 201 enlisted |
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USS Groves (DE-543) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.
Groves was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. Her construction was cancelled on 5 September 1944 before she could be launched. The incomplete ship was scrapped.
References
[edit]This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Navsource Naval History: Photographic History of the U.S. Navy: Destroyer Escorts, Frigates, Littoral Warfare Vessels