USS Rogers Blood (APD-115)
Rogers Blood after launching at the Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts, 2 June 1945 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Rogers Blood |
| Namesake | First Lieutenant Rogers Blood (1922-1944), a U.S. Marine Corps Silver Star recipient |
| Builder | Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts |
| Laid down | 12 April 1945 |
| Launched | 2 June 1945 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Robert M. Blood |
| Commissioned | 22 August 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 19 March 1946 |
| Reclassified | From destroyer escort DE-605 to fast transport APD-116 17 July 1945 |
| Stricken | 1 June 1960 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 14 December 1961 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Crosley-class high-speed transport |
| Displacement | 1,400 tons |
| Length | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 7 in (4 m) |
| Installed power | 12,000 shaft horsepower (16 megawatts) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 23.6 knots (27.2 mph; 43.7 km/h) (trial) |
| Range | 6,000 nautical miles (11,112 kilometers) at 12 knots (22.25 kilometers per hour) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 4 LCVPs |
| Capacity | Six 1/4-ton trucks, two 1-ton trucks, four ammunition carts, four pack howitzers, 6,000 cubic feet (170 m3) ammunition, 3,500 cubic feet (99 m3) cargo, 1,000 cubic feet (28 m3) gasoline (petrol) |
| Troops | 12 officers, 150 enlisted men |
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USS Rogers Blood (APD-115), ex-DE-605, was a United States Navy Crosley-class high speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946.