USS Williams (DE-290)

History
Name:	USS Williams
Namesake:	Rear Admiral George Washington Williams (1869-1925), a U.S. Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
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;

USS Williams (DE-290) was a proposed United States Navy Rudderow-class destroyer escort that was never built.

Sources differ on Williams's planned builder; plans called for either Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard at Hingham, Massachusetts[1] 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 Williams was transferred to the destroyer escort USS Williams (DE-372).

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