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{{Short description|Buckley-class destroyer escort}}
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|Ship country=United States
|[[22 May]] [[1943]]
|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1946}}
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|Ship name=USS ''Lovelace''
|Launched:
|Ship namesake= Lovelace
|[[4 July]] 1943
|Ship awarded=
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|Ship builder=[[Norfolk Navy Yard]], [[Portsmouth, Virginia]]
|Commissioned:
|[[7Ship November]]laid down= 22 May 1943
|Ship launched= 4 July 1943
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|Decommissioned:
|Ship commissioned= 7 November 1943
|[[22 May]] [[1946]]
|Ship decommissioned= 22 May 1946
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|Ship out of service=
|Sunk as target off California [[25 April]] [[1968]]
|Ship struck= 1 July 1967
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|[[1 July]] [[1967]]
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|Ship honors=3 [[battle star]]s (World War II)
|Displacement:
|Ship fate= Sunk as target off California, 25 April 1968
|1400 tons
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|306 ft (93.3 m)
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|36 ft 9 in ft (11.2 m)
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|24 knots (44.4 km/h)
|Ship complement=213 officers and enlisted
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|Ship armament=*3 × single Mk.22 [[3"/50 caliber gun]]s
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|4,940 nm
*8 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm Mk.4 AA guns]]
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*3 x 21 in Mk15 [[torpedo tubes]] (3x1)
*1 [[Hedgehog (Weapon)|Hedgehog]] Projector Mk10 (144 rounds)
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'''USS ''Lovelace'' (DE-198)''' was a {{sclass|Buckley|destroyer escort}} in the [[United States Navy]]. She was named for naval aviator Donald Alexander Lovelace (1906–1942).
 
''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==
'''USS ''Lovelace'' (DE-198)''' was a [[Buckley class destroyer escort|''Buckley'' class]] [[destroyer escort]] in the [[United States Navy]]. She was named for [[Donald Lovelace|Donald Alexander Lovelace]].
After [[shakedown cruise|shakedown]], Lovelace departed Norfolk on 2 January 1944 never to return to the east coast of the United States. This [[flagship]] of Destroyer Escort Division 37 picked up convoys at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo]], the [[Panama Canal Zone]], and the [[Society Islands]] as she steamed across the southern [[Pacific]] to [[Nouméa]], [[New Caledonia]], arriving on 8 February.
 
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 Toem and on 22 July entered a floating [[drydock]] at [[Milne Bay]]. A more important cessation from an almost continuous sailing schedule occurred a month later at New Caledonia, where new 20 mm guns were installed.
''Lovelace'' was laid down on [[22 May]] [[1943]]; launched on [[4 July]] 1943 by [[Norfolk Navy Yard]], [[Portsmouth]], [[Virginia]]; [[Sponsor (military)|sponsored]] by Mrs. Donald A. Lovelace, [[widow]]; and commissioned on [[7 November]] 1943, with [[Lt. Comdr.]] R. D. de Kay, Jr., in command.
 
''Lovelace'' left the [[Melanesia]]n groups on 15 October sailing northwest to the Kossol Straits, [[Palau Islands]], and then westward to [[Leyte Gulf]]. She arrived on 25 October just as a major naval battle was beginning some sixty miles away. While protecting [[7th Fleet]] replenishment units, she [[Catastrophic kill|splashed]] her first enemy plane on 26 October. Six days later en route to Kossol Straits the screen was heavily attacked by [[kamikaze|suicide planes]], but the convoy fought through. On 21 November ''Lovelace'' was credited with an assist in [[Catastrophic kill|downing]] an enemy bomber attacking its Hollandia-bound convoy.
After [[Shakedown (testing)|shakedown]], Lovelace departed Norfolk on [[2 January]] [[1944]] never to return to the east coast of the United States. This [[flagship]] of [[Destroyer Escort Division 37]] picked up convoys at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo]], the [[Panama Canal Zone]], and the [[Society Islands]] as she steamed across the southern [[Pacific]] to [[Noumea]], [[New Caledonia]], arriving on [[8 February]].
 
After a period of refresher [[Anti-submarine warfare|antisubmarine]] training off [[Sansapoor]], [[New Guinea]], the destroyer escort joined TF 78 en route to the [[Philippines]]. ''Lovelace'' continued to operate primarily as an intra-Philippine escort vessel from 8 January 1945 until mid-July. However, during this period her [[anti-aircraft]] capabilities were increased by the installation of air-search [[radar]] at [[Manus Island|Manus]] in the [[Admiralties]]. In July her zone of operations expanded to include [[Ulithi]], and on 9 August, in the lull between air attacks, she first closed [[Okinawa]]. When she returned in September, it was the weather rather than the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] that posed the threat. Only slightly damaged herself on 19 September, she went to the assistance of the {{USS|Colbert|APA-145|3}}, an [[attack transport]] loaded with liberated U.S. [[war prisoners]], after the ship had hit a drifting [[Naval mine|mine]]. After seeing the troopship safely back to [[Buckner Bay]], ''Lovelace'' returned to the Philippines; and on 1 October the ship departed [[Subic Bay]] for the United States in company with the ships of Escort Division 37.
Escort and screening duties in the [[Solomon Islands]] preceded her departure on [[19 April]] for the [[New Guinea]] battle zone. Arriving off [[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 [[Toem]] and on [[22 July]] entered a floating [[drydock]] at [[Milne Bay]]. A more important cessation from an almost continuous sailing schedule occurred a month later at New Caledonia, where new 20 mm guns were installed.
 
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.
''Lovelace'' left the [[Melanesian]] groups on [[15 October]] sailing northwest to the [[Kossol Straits]], [[Palau Islands]], and then westward to [[Leyte Gulf]]. She arrived on [[25 October]] just as a major naval battle was beginning some sixty miles away. While protecting [[7th Fleet]] replenishment units, she [[Catastrophic kill|splashed]] her first enemy plane on [[26 October]]. Six days later en route to Kossol Straits the screen was heavily attacked by [[kamikaze|suicide planes]], but the convoy fought through. On [[21 November]] ''Lovelace'' was credited with an assist in [[Catastrophic kill|downing]] an enemy bomber attacking its Hollandia‑bound convoy.
 
After a period of refresher [[Anti-submarine warfare|antisubmarine]] training off [[Sansapoor]], [[New Guinea]], the destroyer escort joined [[TF 78]] en route to the [[Philippines]]. ''Lovelace'' continued to operate primarily as an intra‑Philippine escort vessel from [[8 January]] [[1945]] until mid‑[[July]]. However, during this period her [[antiaircraft]] capabilities were increased by the installation of air‑search [[radar]] at [[Manus Island|Manus]] in the [[Admiralties]]. In July her zone of operations expanded to include [[Ulithi]], and on [[9 August]], in the lull between air attacks, she first closed [[Okinawa]]. When she returned in [[September]], it was the weather rather than the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] that posed the threat. Only slightly damaged herself on [[19 September]], she went to the assistance of the ''[[USS Coulter (APA-145)|USS Coulter]]'', an [[attack transport]] loaded with liberated U.S. [[war prisoners]], after the ship had hit a drifting [[Naval mine|mine]]. After seeing the troopship safely back to [[Buckner Bay]], ''Lovelace'' returned to the Philippines; and on [[1 October]] the ship departed [[Subic Bay]] for the [[United States]] in company with the ships of Escort Division 37.
 
Arriving in [[San Diego]], [[California]] on [[23 October]], ''Lovelace'' reached the end of twenty-one active months of naval service. [[Decommissioned]] on [[22 May]] [[1946]], she was [[berth|berthed]] at [[Bremerton]], [[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==
Lovelace was awarded three [[battle stars]] for [[World War II]] service.
 
==References==
== External links ==
*[http {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l8l/lovelace.htm USS Lovelace entry] at [[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]]html}}
 
==External See also links==
{{Commons category|USS Lovelace (DE-198)}}
* [[List of patrol vessels of the United States Navy]]
* {{navsource|06/198|USS Lovelace}}
 
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== References ==
*[http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/198.htm USS Lovelace entry] at [http://www.navsource.org/ NavSource Naval History]
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