High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Gillette (DE-681) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named in honor of Lieutenant (j.g.) Douglas W. Gillette (1918–1942). Gillette was launched on 25 September 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. Pearl M. Gillette, the namesake's mother; and commissioned on 27 October 1943, Commander T. G. Murrell, USNR, commanding. After shakedown off Bermuda, Gillette sailed from Boston on 2 January 1944 for Balboa, C.Z., where for four months she conducted intensive exercises with submarines and escorted a convoy to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and returned. She sailed 9 May for Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, on a good-will tour and visited Barranquilla, Colombia, as well before returning to Boston 2 June.

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