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DE-198 Lovelace
United States Navy destroyer escort
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Buckley - 1943/05/22
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va.
1943/07/04 1943/11/07 1968/04/25
target
Namesake: LtCdr Donald Alexander Lovelace, XO VF-3, PCO VF-2, KIA 42/05/28 (crash landing)
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 44: Ms 32/13d


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
44/01/2? 44/02/08     escort convoy from Panama to Society Is. > Noumea   66 
44/01/2?       joinPac - Panama Canal   66 
44/02/08 44/04/19     Solomons - escort and screening duty   66 
44/04/19 44/05 Reckle 77     66 
44/05 44/07/22     New Guinea - coastal patrol and escort duty   66 
44/06/14 44/06/17     escort 7 ship empty convoy from Hollandia to Langemak, Cape Cretin   88 
44/07/08       shell Toem   66 
44/07/22 44/08     Milne Bay - drydock   66 
44/08       Noumea - new 20mm guns installed   66 
44/10/15 44/11 King2 77??     66 
44/11/0?       sail from Leyte to Kossol Roads   66 
44/11/1? 44/12     Sansapor - ASW training   66 
44/11/21       escort convoy from Palaus to Hollandia   66 
45/01/08 45/07   78 intra-Philippine escort duty   66 
45/07 45/08     escort duty Philippines <> Ulithi   66 
45/08/09       Okianwa   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1967/07/01 struck from Navy List
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 3 Battle Stars
Notice: sunk as target off Southern California