LOVERING DE 39

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Evarts Class Type GMT Destroyer Escort Keel Laid September 7 1942 for Great Britain as BDE-39 Retained and renamed June 14 1943 Designated Destroyer Escort (DE) June 16 1943 Launched June 18 1943 USS LOVERING DE-39 Commissioned September 11 1943 - Decommissioned October 16 1945 Stricken from Naval Register November 1 1945 Sold December 31 1946 for scrap

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1943)

 

Postmarks

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USPO Machine cancel "Navy Yard Station" Bremerton WA

1943-06-18

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Dual Launching of USS LOVERING and USS SANDERS DE-40, cachet by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Masters Association

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Other Information

LOVERING received three battle stars for World War II service

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 3 stars - WWII Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - William Bacon Lovering USNR (August 3 1913 - June 6 1942)
Lovering graduated from Harvard and on August 2 1940 enlisted in the Naval Reserve. Appointed a Midshipman November 22, he attended Abbott Hall Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School at Northwestern University in Chicago. He was commissioned Ensign February 28 1941 and assigned to the Destroyer USS HAMMANN DD-412. Ensign Lovering died during the Battle of Midway when HAMMANN was torpedoed by the Japanese Submarine I-168 and sunk June 6 1942 while aiding in the salvage of USS YORKTOWN CV-5.
Ensign Lovering was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. His other awards include the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal.

 

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