title: USS Groves
text: # USS Groves
  
  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.
  
  