USS William M. Wood (DE-287)

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

History
Name:	USS 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 down:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 12 March 1944
General characteristics
Class and type:	Rudderow destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,450 tons (standard) 1,810 tons (full load(
Length:	306 ft (93 m) overall 300 ft (91 m) waterline
Beam:	36 ft 10 in (11.23 m)
Draft:	9 ft 8 in (2.95 m)
Installed power:	12,000 shaft horsepower (16 megawatts)
Propulsion:	2 CE boilers, General Electric turbines with electric drive, 2 screws
Speed:	24 knots (44.5 kilometers per hour)
Range:	5,050 nautical miles (9,353 kilometers) at 12 knots (22.25 kilometers per hour)
Complement:	12 officers, 192 enlisted men
Armament:	2 × 5-inch 38-cal (127-millimeter) (2x1) 4 × 40-mm (2x2) 10 × 20 mm (10x1) 3 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (1x3) 1 Hedgehog depth bomb thrower 8 depth charge projectors (8x1) 2 depth charge racks

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. "William M Wood". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command.
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.

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