USS Sheehan (DE-541)

History
USS Sheehan is launched at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, on 17 December 1943.

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 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 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.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Navsource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive: USS Sheehan (DE-541)

John C. Butler-class destroyer escorts

United States Navy

Completed	John C. Butler O'Flaherty Raymond Richard W. Suesens Abercrombie Oberrender Robert Brazier Edwin A. Howard Jesse Rutherford Key Gentry Traw Maurice J. Manuel Naifeh Doyle C. Barnes Kenneth M. Willett Jaccard Lloyd E. Acree George E. Davis Mack Woodson Johnnie Hutchins Walton Rolf Pratt Rombach McGinty Alvin C. Cockrell French Cecil J. Doyle Thaddeus Parker John L. Williamson Presley Williams Richard S. Bull Richard M. Rowell Eversole Dennis Edmonds Shelton Straus La Prade Jack Miller Stafford Walter C. Wann Samuel B. Roberts Le Ray Wilson Lawrence C. Taylor Melvin R. Nawman Oliver Mitchell Tabberer Robert F. Keller Leland E. Thomas Chester T. O'Brien Douglas A. Munro Dufilho Haas Corbesier Conklin McCoy Reynolds William Seiverling Ulvert M. Moore Kendall C. Campbell Goss Grady Charles E. Brannon Albert T. Harris Cross Hanna Joseph E. Connolly Donaldson / Gilligan Formoe Heyliger Edward H. Allen Tweedy Howard F. Clark Silverstein Lewis Bivin Rizzi Osberg Wagner Vandivier

Canceled	William C. Lawe Lloyd Thomas Keppler Kleinsmith Henry W. Tucker Weiss Francovich DE-380 (Unnamed) DE-381 (Unnamed) DE-425 — DE-437 (Unnamed) Woodrow R. Thompson Steinaker DE-453 — DE-507 (Unnamed) DE-511 — DE-515 (Unnamed) Sheehan Oswald A. Powers Groves Alfred Wolf Harold J. Ellison Myles C. Fox Charles R. Ware Carpellotti Eugene A. Greene Gyatt Benner Kenneth D. Bailey Dennis J. Buckley Everett F. Larson Rogers Blood William R. Rush William M. Wood DE-558 — DE-562 (Unnamed)

Portuguese Navy

Diogo-Cão (ex-Formoe)
Corte Real (ex-McCoy Reynolds)

Preceded by: Rudderow class
Followed by: Dealey class

List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy

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