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Name: | USS Hoel |
Namesake: | William R. Hoel (1824-1879), a United States Navy officer Navy Cross recipient |
Builder: | Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California |
Laid down: | 21 April 1944 |
Launched: | Never |
Completed: | Never |
Commissioned: | Never |
Struck: | 13 September 1946 |
Fate: | Construction contract cancelled 13 September 1946 Scrapped incomplete on building ways |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 3460 tons (Full) |
Length: | 390 ft 6 in (119 m) (overall) |
Beam: | 40 ft 10 in (12.5 m) |
Draft: | 14 ft 4 in (4.4 m) |
Propulsion: | 60,000 shp (45 MW); geared turbines; 2 propellers |
Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h) |
Range: | 4,500 nmi. at 20 knots (8,300 km at 37 km/h) |
Complement: | 336 officers and enlisted |
Armament: | 6 × 5 in.(127 mm)/38 guns, 12 × 40 mm AA guns, 11 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 in. torpedo tubes, 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks |
USS Hoel (DD-768) was a planned United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer laid down during World War II but never completed.
Hoel was laid down by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San Francisco, California on 21 April 1944. The end of World War II in August 1945 resulted in the termination of the contract for her construction on 13 September 1946. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register that day and scrapped on the building ways.