USS Groves (DE-543)

History
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
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 5 September 1944; Scrapped incomplete;
General characteristics
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
Armament:	2 × single 5 in (127 mm) guns; 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns ; 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns ; 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes ; 8 × depth charge throwers; 1 × Hedgehog ASW mortar; 2 × depth charge racks;

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

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

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