USS Huse, a 1200-ton Edsall class escort ship, was built at Orange, Texas. She was commissioned in late August 1943 and spent most of the rest of World War II on convoy escort and anti-submarine patrol in the Atlantic. While operating with the escort carrier Croatan's hunter-killer group, she helped sink the German submarines U-856 and U-488 in April 1944 and U-490 in June. In early August 1945, with the European war over for nearly three months, Huse went to the Pacific, where she was preparing for combat against Japan when that nation surrendered. She soon returned to the Atlantic and was decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Florida, in March 1946.

When the Korean War crisis generated great expansion of active Naval forces, Huse was brought back into service. She recommissioned in August 1951 and was then employed on anti-submarine operational and training service in the Atlantic and Caribbean. She also made a training cruise to northern Europe in mid-1955 and another voyage to that area in 1957 to participate in NATO exercises. Huse became a Naval Reserve Training ship in March 1960, mainly stationed at New Orleans, Louisiana. During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis she participated in quarantine operations. USS Huse was decommissioned for the last time in June 1965. She was part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in August 1973, and was sold for scrapping in June 1974.

USS Huse was named in honor of Vice Admiral Harry McL. P. Huse, (1858-1942), whose long service included a post-World War I tour as Commander U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters.