USS Henry W. Tucker (DE-377)

Career (US)
Name: Henry W. Tucker
Namesake: Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Henry W. Tucker (1919-1942), U.S. Navy sailor and Navy Cross recipient
Builder: Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas (proposed)
Laid down: Never
Fate: Construction cancelled 6 June 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 guns (2×1)
• 4 × 40 mm AA guns (2×2)
• 10 × 20 mm AA guns (10×1)
• 3 × 21 in. torpedo tubes (1×3)
• 8 × depth charge projectors
• 1 × depth charge projector (hedgehog)
• 2 × depth charge tracks

The first USS Henry W. Tucker (DE-377) was a proposed United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.

Henry W. Tucker was laid down at Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, during World War II. However, her construction was cancelled on 6 June 1944.

The name Henry W. Tucker was reassigned to destroyer USS Henry W. Tucker (DD-875).

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