Name USS New England Launched Never Length 162 m | Laid down 1 October 1944 Completed Never Construction started 1 October 1944 | |
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Namesake New England, the northeast section of the United States comprising Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut Sponsored by Mrs. Paul H. Bastedo (planned) Builder Tampa Shipbuilding Company | ||
USS New England (AD-32), was a planned destroyer tender of the United States Navy during World War II.
Originally planned as a submarine tender and designated AS-28, New England was reclassified as a destroyer tender and redesignated AD-32 on 14 August 1944; she was named New England on 2 September 1944. The New England-class was to be a modified Dixie class destroyer tender.
New England was laid down on 1 October 1944 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Inc., at Tampa, Florida. She was scheduled to be launched on 1 April 1946 with Mrs. Paul H. Bastedo as her sponsor, but the ship's construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945 when she was 12 % complete, due to the end of World War II.
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