High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bassett (APD-73), ex-DE-672, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1957. Bassett was laid down as the Buckley-class destroyer escort USS Bassett (DE-672) on 28 November 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, and launched as such on 15 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Margaret Bassett, mother of the ship's namesake, Ensign Edgar R. Bassett. She was reclassified as a Charles Lawrence-class high-speed transport and redesignated APD-73 on 27 June 1944. After conversion to her new role, the ship was commissioned on 23 February 1945 with Lieutenant Commander Harold J. Theriault in command.

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