USS Carpellotti (DE-548)

History
Name:	USS Carpellotti
Namesake:	Private First Class Louis J. Carpellotti (1918-1942), a U.S. Marine Corps Silver Star recipient
Builder:	Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts (proposed)
Launched:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 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 caliber guns 2 × twin 40 mm (1.6 in) Bofors AA guns 10 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon AA cannons 3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × depth charge projector (Hedgehog) 2 × depth charge tracks

USS Carpellotti (DE-548) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.

Plans called for Carpellotti to be built at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. The contract for her construction was cancelled in 1944 before she could be launched.

The name Carpellotti was reassigned to the destroyer escort USS Carpellotti (DE-720), which was converted during construction into the fast transport USS Carpellotti (APD-136).

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