USS Lovelace
Service
- as USS Lovelace7 November 1943 — 22 May 1946665 days of the war
- Name
- USS Lovelace
- Namesake
- Lovelace
- Builder
- Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia
- Laid down
- 22 May 1943
- Launched
- 4 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 7 November 1943
- Decommissioned
- 22 May 1946
- Struck
- 1 July 1967
- Fate
- Sunk as target off California, 25 April 1968 (1968)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,400 long tons (1,422 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft)
- Beam
- 7.92 m (26 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 4,940 nmi (9,149 km)
- Complement
- 213
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS Lovelace was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Lovelace. Her keel was laid at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia on 22 May 1943. She entered service on 7 November 1943, having been launched on 4 July 1943.
Her class ran to 98 ships. The class followed the Evarts-class destroyer escort and was succeeded by the Cannon-class destroyer escort.
Displacement was 1,400 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 7.9 m (26 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 213. Her main battery was of 76 mm (3.0 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 665 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 22 May 1946. She was struck from the register on 1 July 1967.
She was expended as a target on 25 April 1968. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 3 × single Mk.22 3"/50 caliber guns
- 1 × quad Mk.2 1.1"/75 caliber gun
- 8 × single 20 mm Mk.4 AA guns
- 1 × triple 21 in Mk.15 torpedo tubes
- 1 × Hedgehog Mk.10 anti-submarine mortar (144 rounds)
- 8 × Mk.6 K-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × Mk.9 depth charge tracks
Sister ships
- HMS Bentinck (K314)
- HMS Bligh
- HMS Byron
- HMS Calder (K349)
- HMS Conn
- HMS Cosby
- HMS Dakins
- HMS Duff (K352)
- HMS Ekins
- HMS Fitzroy (K553)
- HMS Halsted (K556)
- HMS Hargood (K582)
- HMS Holmes (K581)
- HMS Hotham (K583)
- HMS Redmill (K554)
- HMS Retalick
- HMS Riou
- HMS Rowley
- HMS Rupert (K561)
- HMS Rutherford
- HMS Seymour (K563)
- HMS Spragge (K572)
- HMS Stockham
- HMS Thornborough
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS Lovelace on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy SeaBee Detachment 1019 — U.S. National Archives photo 19-LCM-DE198-1 from usndazzle.com — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons