USS William M. Wood (DE-287)

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NameUSS William M. Wood
Namesake William Maxwell Wood (1819–1880), a U.S. Navy officer and surgeon, first Surgeon General of the United States Navy and first Medical Director of the U.S. Navy
Builder Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts [1] or Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina [2] (proposed)
Laid downNever
FateConstruction contract cancelled 12 March 1944
General characteristics
Class and type Rudderow destroyer escort
Displacement
  • 1,450 tons (standard)
  • 1,810 tons (full load)
Length
Beam36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft9 ft 8 in (2.95 m)
Installed power12,000 shaft horsepower (16 megawatts)
Propulsion2 CE boilers, General Electric turbines with electric drive, 2 screws
Speed24 knots (44.5 kilometers per hour)
Range5,050 nautical miles (9,353 kilometers) at 12 knots (22.25 kilometers per hour)
Complement12 officers, 192 enlisted men
Armament

USS William M. Wood (DE-287) was a proposed United States Navy Rudderow-class destroyer escort that was never built.

Sources differ on William M. Wood's planned builder; plans called for either Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard at Hingham, Massachusetts [1] [3] [4] [5] or the Charleston Navy Yard at Charleston, South Carolina [2] to build her. The contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 March 1944 before construction could begin.

The name William M. Wood was transferred to the destroyer escort USS William M. Wood (DE-557).

Notes

  1. 1 2 "William M Wood". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command.
  2. 1 2 Per the NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/06idx.htm)
  3. ↑ Colton, Tim (11 August 2011). "Bethlehem-Hingham, Hingham MA". ShipbuildingHistory.com. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Silverstone, Paul (2012). The Navy of World War II, 1922–1947. Routledge. p. 107. ISBN   978-1-135-86472-9.
  5. ↑ Bauer, Karl Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 233. ISBN   978-0-313-26202-9.

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