Name USS Groves Launched Never Builder Boston Navy Yard | Laid down date unknown Commissioned Never | |
Namesake Ensign Stephen W. Groves (1917-1942), U.S. Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient Fate Construction contract cancelled 5 September 1944
Scrapped incomplete | ||
USS Groves (DE-543) was a proposed World War II United States Navy John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was never completed.
Groves was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. Her construction was cancelled on 5 September 1944 before she could be launched. The incomplete ship was scrapped.
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