USS Peril (AM-272) was an built for the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 during World War II

World War II

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. In 1945, she was transferred to the Soviet Navy

Soviet Navy

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 under Lend-Lease

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 as T-281. The Soviets scrapped T-281 in 1954, never having returned her to U.S. custody. Because of the Cold War

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, the U.S. Navy was unaware of this fate and the vessel remained on the American Naval Vessel Register

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 until she was struck on 1 January 1983.

Career

Peril was laid down 1 February 1943 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Alabama

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; 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

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, where she underwent overhaul 8 to 27 February.

Upon completion of overhaul she proceeded via the Panama Canal

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, San Diego, California

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, Seattle, Washington

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, and Kodiak, Alaska

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, to Cold Bay, Alaska

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, 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

Soviet Navy

The Soviet Navy was the naval arm of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy would have played an instrumental role in a Warsaw Pact war with NATO, where it would have attempted to prevent naval convoys from bringing reinforcements across the Atlantic Ocean...

 as T-281.
Commissioned to Pacific Fleet

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 on June 27 at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

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. Participated Soviet-Japanese War

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: landing to Rason port on August 12, 1945. Awarded by Guards

Russian Guards

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 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

Naval Vessel Register

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until her name was stricken on 1 January 1983.