USS Tisdale, a 1140-ton Evarts class escort ship, was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. Commissioned in October 1943, she escorted shipping in the central and southern Pacific during the first five months of 1944. In June Tisdale screened the floating reserve during the invasion of Saipan, helping to protect her charges during the ensuing Battle of the Philippine Sea. Later in the month, and in July, she used her guns for bombardment and illumination missions at Saipan and Tinian. For the rest of 1944 and into the following year Tisdale performed escort service in the central Pacific.

From late March until mid-June 1945, Tisdale participated in the Okinawa campaign, screening escort aircraft carriers and supply convoys as well as serving as a radar picket ship. She returned to the U.S. West Coast in early August, two weeks before the Japanese agreed to surrender. With the war over, Tisdale's services were no longer needed. She was decommissioned in mid-November 1945, stricken from the Navy list later in that month, and sold for scrapping in February 1948.