USS Sheehan
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USS Sheehan (DE-541) was a United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort launched during World War II but never completed.
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United States | |
Name | USS Sheehan |
Namesake | Chief Quartermaster John Francis Sheehan (1910-1942), killed in action aboard fast transport USS Gregory (APD-3) |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 8 November 1943 |
Launched | 17 December 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Catherine Sheehan |
Completed | Never |
Commissioned | Never |
Fate | Construction contract cancelled 7 January 1946; sold for scrap incomplete 2 July 1946 |
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 |
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