USS Rogers Blood (DE-555)

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 × 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 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

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