USS Rogers Blood (DE-555)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Rogers Blood.

History


Name:	USS Rogers Blood
Namesake:	First Lieutenant Rogers Blood (1922-1944), a U.S. Marine Corps officer and Silver Star recipient
Builder:	Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts (proposed)
Launched:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 1944
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 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (Hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Rogers Blood (DE-555) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.

Plans called for Rogers Blood to be built at the Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts. The contract for her construction was cancelled in 1944.

The name Rogers Blood was reassigned to the destroyer escort USS Rogers Blood (DE-605), which was converted during construction into the fast transport USS Rogers Blood (APD-115) and was in commission as such from 1945 to 1946.

References

Navsource Naval History: Photographic History of the U.S. Navy: Destroyer Escorts, Frigates, Littoral Warfare Vessels

John C. Butler-class destroyer escorts

United States Navy

Completed	John C. Butler O'Flaherty Raymond Richard W. Suesens Abercrombie Oberrender Robert Brazier Edwin A. Howard Jesse Rutherford Key Gentry Traw Maurice J. Manuel Naifeh Doyle C. Barnes Kenneth M. Willett Jaccard Lloyd E. Acree George E. Davis Mack Woodson Johnnie Hutchins Walton Rolf Pratt Rombach McGinty Alvin C. Cockrell French Cecil J. Doyle Thaddeus Parker John L. Williamson Presley Williams Richard S. Bull Richard M. Rowell Eversole Dennis Edmonds Shelton Straus La Prade Jack Miller Stafford Walter C. Wann Samuel B. Roberts Le Ray Wilson Lawrence C. Taylor Melvin R. Nawman Oliver Mitchell Tabberer Robert F. Keller Leland E. Thomas Chester T. O'Brien Douglas A. Munro Dufilho Haas Corbesier Conklin McCoy Reynolds William Seiverling Ulvert M. Moore Kendall C. Campbell Goss Grady Charles E. Brannon Albert T. Harris Cross Hanna Joseph E. Connolly Donaldson / Gilligan Formoe Heyliger Edward H. Allen Tweedy Howard F. Clark Silverstein Lewis Bivin Rizzi Osberg Wagner Vandivier

Canceled	William C. Lawe Lloyd Thomas Keppler Kleinsmith Henry W. Tucker Weiss Francovich DE-380 (Unnamed) DE-381 (Unnamed) DE-425 — DE-437 (Unnamed) Woodrow R. Thompson Steinaker DE-453 — DE-507 (Unnamed) DE-511 — DE-515 (Unnamed) Sheehan Oswald A. Powers Groves Alfred Wolf Harold J. Ellison Myles C. Fox Charles R. Ware Carpellotti Eugene A. Greene Gyatt Benner Kenneth D. Bailey Dennis J. Buckley Everett F. Larson Rogers Blood William R. Rush William M. Wood DE-558 — DE-562 (Unnamed)

Portuguese Navy

Diogo-Cão (ex-Formoe)
Corte Real (ex-McCoy Reynolds)

Preceded by: Rudderow class
Followed by: Dealey class

List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy

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