| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Augury (AMc-126) |
| Builder: | Tampa Shipbuilding Company |
| Reclassified: | AM-149, 21 February 1942 |
| Laid down: | 7 December 1942 |
| Launched: | 23 February 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Helen K. MacLean |
| Commissioned: | 17 March 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 July 1945 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Soviet Union, 18 July 1945 |
| Reclassified: | MSF-149, 7 February 1955 |
| Struck: | 1 January 1983 |
| Career (Soviet Union) | |
| Name: | T-524 |
| Acquired: | 18 July 1945 |
| Fate: | scrapped, 1954 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 650 tons |
| Length: | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × ALCO 539 diesel engines, 1,710 shp (1.3 MW) Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 104 |
| Armament: | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun DP 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × Depth charge tracks |
| Service record | |
| Part of: | US Pacific Fleet (1943-1945) |
USS Augury (AM-149) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. In 1945, she was transferred to the Soviet Navy under Lend-Lease as T-524. The Soviets scrapped T-524 in 1954, never returning her to U.S. custody. Because of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy was unaware of this fate and the vessel remained on the American Naval Vessel Register until she was struck on 1 January 1983.
Augury was laid down on 7 December 1942 at Tampa, Florida, by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Inc.; launched on 23 February 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Helen K. MacLean; and commissioned on 17 March 1943, Lt. A. G. Wood, USNR, in command.
After fitting out, Augury completed shakedown training out of Little Creek, Virginia, during the month between 8 April and 8 May 1943. On 10 May, she got underway as part of the escort for a convoy bound for the west coast. She and her charges arrived in the Panama Canal Zone on 19 May, transited the Panama Canal soon thereafter, and continued on up the western coast of North America. The minesweeper entered port at San Francisco, California, on 2 June and remained there until the 22d. Resuming her journey on the latter day, she shaped a course for Alaskan waters. Augury arrived at Kodiak, Alaska, on 29 June and reported for duty with Task Force (TF) 91. For the remainder of her career with the United States Navy, the minesweeper plied the waters surrounding the Aleutian Islands escorting ships between such ports as Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, Adak, Amchitka, Attu, Shemya Island, and Chernofski and conducted minesweeping operations in the bays, inlets, and passes along the archipelago.
On 23 June 1945, Augury began four weeks of familiarization training for a crew of Russians in preparation for the warship's transfer to the Soviet Union. On 18 July 1945, Augury was decommissioned and simultaneously transferred to the Soviet Navy under the terms of the lend-lease program as T-524. The Soviets scrapped T-524 in 1954, never having returned her to U.S. Navy custody.
Unaware of the ship's fate, the U.S. Navy reclassified her as MSF-149 on 7 February 1955, and she remained on the American Naval Vessel Register until her name was stricken on 1 January 1983.