USS Sheehan (DE-541)

USS Sheehan is launched at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, on 17 December 1943.
Career
Name: USS Sheehan
Namesake: Chief Quartermaster John Francis Sheehan (1910-1942), killed in action aboard fast transport USS Gregory (APD-3)
Builder: Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Laid down: 8 November 1943
Launched: 17 December 1943
Sponsored by: Mrs. Catherine Sheehan
Completed: Never
Commissioned: Never
Fate: Construction contract cancelled 7 January 1946; sold for scrap incomplete 2 July 1946
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

USS Sheehan (DE-541) was a United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort launched during World War II but never completed.

Mrs. Catherine Sheehan christens USS Sheehan at Sheehan‍ '​s launching on 17 December 1943 at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts.

Sheehan was laid down at Boston Navy Yard at Boston, Massachusetts, on 8 November 1943 and launched on 17 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Sheehan, mother of Chief Quartermaster John Francis Sheehan, the ship‍‍ '​‍s namesake.

Construction of Sheehan was suspended before she could be completed. On 30 August 1945, she was assigned to the Atlantic Inactive Fleet in an incomplete state. On 7 January 1946, the contract for her construction was cancelled, and the incomplete ship was sold on 2 July 1946 to the John J. Duane Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, for scrapping.

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