USS Schmitt (DE-676/APD-76) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in the United States Navy, named for Father Aloysius H. Schmitt. Schmitt was laid down on 22 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts; launched on 29 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Buchheit; and commissioned on 24 July 1943, under the command of Lieutenant Commander T. D. Cunningham.