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'''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]].
''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
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]].
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