Allied Warships

USS Lovelace (DE 198)

Destroyer Escort of the Buckley class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer Escort
ClassBuckley 
PennantDE 198 
Built byNorfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down22 May 1943 
Launched4 Jul 1943 
Commissioned7 Nov 1943 
End service22 May 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 22 May 1946.
Stricken 1 July 1967.
Sunk as a target off the coast of California 25 April 1968.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. R. D. de Kay, Jr., USN7 Nov 1943???

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