| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Peril (AM-272) |
| Builder: | Gulf Shipbuilding Co. |
| Laid down: | 1 February 1943 |
| Launched: | 25 July 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 2 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 May 1945 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Soviet Union, 22 May 1945 |
| Reclassified: | MSF-272, 7 February 1955 |
| Career (Soviet Union) | |
| Name: | T-281 |
| Acquired: | 22 May 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 Atlantic Fleet (1944-1945) |
USS Peril (AM-272) 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-281. The Soviets scrapped T-281 in 1954, never having returned 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.
Peril was laid down 1 February 1943 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Alabama; launched 25 July 1943 sponsored by Mrs. Morris Sorbet; and commissioned 20 April 1944, Lt. Donald W. Phillips in command. Peril departed Boston, Massachusetts, 5 February 1945, for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she underwent overhaul 8 to 27 February.
Upon completion of overhaul she proceeded via the Panama Canal, San Diego, California, Seattle, Washington, and Kodiak, Alaska, to Cold Bay, Alaska, where she moored 28 April 1945. There she received for minesweeper training forty Soviet seamen and four Soviet officers on 1 May 1945, and thirty-two Soviet seamen and two Soviet officers 6 May 1945.
Peril decommissioned 21 May 1945 and was transferred to the Soviet Navy as T-281. Commissioned to Pacific Fleet on June 27 at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Participated Soviet-Japanese War: landing to Rason port on August 12, 1945. Awarded by Guards rank and ensign on August 26, 1945. Scrapped in 1954, and never having returned to U.S. Navy custody.
Unaware of the ship's fate, the U.S. Navy reclassified her as MSF-272 on 7 February 1955, and she remained on the American Naval Vessel Register until her name was stricken on 1 January 1983.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.