 Only slightly damaged herself on 19 September, she went to the assistance of the , an attack transport loaded with liberated U.S. war prisoners, after the ship had hit a drifting mine.After seeing the troopship safely back to Buckner Bay, "Lovelace" returned to the Philippines; and on 1 October the ship departed Subic Bay for the United States in company with the ships of Escort Division 37.Arriving in San Diego, California on 23 October, "Lovelace" reached the end of twenty-one active months of naval service.