The ship was assigned the name USS Eisner, the first ship of the name, on 23 February 1943 and laid down as the U.S. Navy destroyer escort DE-269 by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts, on 7 April 1943. She was launched on 19 May 1943. On 3 September 1943 she was christened by 9-year-old Carol E. Pyne, one of the youngest sponsors in the history of the Boston Navy Yard,[1] and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease.
Commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS Domett (K473) on 3 September 1943 simultaneously with her transfer, the ship served on patrol and escort duty. On 29 June 1944 she joined the British frigates,, and and a Royal Air Force Liberator aircraft of No. 244 Squadron in a depth charge attack that sank the German submarine U-988 in the English Channel west of Guernsey at 49.6167°N -3.6833°W.
The Royal Navy returned Domett to the U.S. Navy on 5 March 1946.
The United States sold Domett on 3 June 1947 for scrapping.