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{{Short description|Buckley-class destroyer escort}}
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|Ship image=USS Lovelace (DE-198) at Nouméa, New Caledonia, in February 1944 (19-LCM-DE198-1).jpg
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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1946}}
|Ship name=USS ''Lovelace''
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|Ship honors=3 [[battle star]]s (World War II)
|Ship fate= Sunk as target off California, 25 April 1968
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|Ship class= {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort}}
|Ship displacement={{convert|1400|LT|t|0
|Ship length= {{convert|306|ft|m|abbr=on}}
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|Ship complement=213 officers and enlisted
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*1 × quad Mk.2 [[1.1"/75 caliber gun]] *8 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm Mk.4 AA guns]] *1 × triple {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} Mk.15 [[torpedo tube]]s *1 × [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] Mk.10 [[anti-submarine mortar]] (144 rounds) *8 × Mk.6 [[Depth charge#Delivery mechanisms|K-gun]] *2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks |Ship armor=
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'''USS ''Lovelace'' (DE-198)''' was a {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort}} in the [[United States Navy]].
''Lovelace'' was laid down on 22 May 1943; launched on 4 July 1943 by [[Norfolk Navy Yard]], [[Portsmouth, Virginia|Portsmouth]], [[Virginia]]; [[Sponsor (military)|sponsored]] by Mrs. Donald A. Lovelace, [[widow]]; and commissioned on 7 November 1943
==Service history==
After [[
Escort and screening duties in the [[Solomon Islands]] preceded her departure on 19 April for the [[New Guinea]] battle zone. Arriving off [[Jayapura|Hollandia]] (now [[Jayapura]], [[Indonesia]]) without incident on 24 April, she screened the debarking of the second wave of relief troops. Later ''Lovelace'' interrupted her New Guinea coastal patrol and escort missions on 8 July to bombard beach targets at
''Lovelace'' left the [[
After a period of refresher [[Anti-submarine warfare|antisubmarine]] training off [[Sansapoor]], [[New Guinea]], the destroyer escort joined
Arriving in [[San Diego]], [[California]] on 23 October, ''Lovelace'' reached the end of twenty-one active months of naval service. [[Ship decommissioning|Decommissioned]] on 22 May 1946, she was [[Berth (moorings)|berthed]] at [[Bremerton]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], and [[Struck off|struck]] on 1 July 1967. ''Lovelace'' performed her last duty for the Navy by acting as a target for destruction on 25 April 1968.
==Awards==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|USS Lovelace (DE-198)}}
* {{navsource|06/198|USS Lovelace}}
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