USS Harold J. Ellison (DE-545)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Harold J. Ellison.

For the United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient, see Harold John Ellison.

History


Name:	USS Harold J. Ellison
Namesake:	Ensign Harold John Ellison (1917-1942), a U.S. Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
Builder:	Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts
Laid down:	date unknown
Launched:	Never
Commissioned:	Never
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 10 June 1944 Scrapped incomplete
General characteristics
Class & 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 Harold J. Ellison (DE-545) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.

Harold J. Ellison's keel was laid at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. However, her construction was cancelled on 10 June 1944 before she could be launched. The incomplete ship was scrapped.

The name Harold J. Ellison was reassigned to the destroyer USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864).

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

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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