Adopt underway in 1944
History
United States
Name	USSAdopt (AMc-114)
Builder	Tampa Shipbuilding Company,Tampa,Florida
Reclassified	AM-137, 21 February 1942
Laid down	8 April 1942
Launched	18 October 1942
Sponsored by	Mrs. Elizabeth H. Hastings
Commissioned	31 May 1943
Decommissioned	19 July 1945
Fate	Transferred toSoviet Navy, 19 July 1945
Reclassified	MSF-137, 7 February 1955
Stricken	1 January 1958 (possibly a misidentification ofT-552 forT-332)[1]
History
Soviet Union
Name	T-332[2]
Acquired	19 July 1945
Commissioned	19 July 1945
Stricken	1960[1]
General characteristics
Class & 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 × ALCOdiesel engines, 1,710 shp (1.3 MW) 2 shafts
Speed	15 knots (27.8 km/h)
Complement	104
Armament	1 ×3-inch/50-caliber gun 6 ×Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 4 ×Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun 1 ×Hedgehog 4 ×depth charge projectors 2 × depth charge racks 2 × Minesweepingparavanes
Service record
Part of:	U.S. Pacific Fleet (1943–1945) Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet (1945-1960)

USSAdopt (AMc-114/AM-137/MSF-137) was anAdmirable-classminesweeper built for theUnited States Navy duringWorld War II and in commission from 1943 to 1945. In 1945, she was transferred to theSoviet Navy underLend-Lease asT-332.

Adopt waslaid down on 8 April 1942 atTampa,Florida, by theTampa Shipbuilding Company, Inc. She waslaunched on 18 October 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth H. Hastings, andcommissioned on 31 May 1943.

After conductingshakedown training offKey West, Florida,Adopt proceeded toNorfolk Navy Yard inPortsmouth,Virginia, for post-shakedown repairs and alterations and then began a series ofminesweeping tests and exercises atLittle Creek, Virginia, andSolomons Island,Maryland. These operations occupied her into early September 1943, when she departed for theUnited States West Coast.Adopt made a brief stop atGuantánamo Bay,Cuba, before transiting thePanama Canal and joining theUnited States Pacific Fleet. She reachedSan Diego,California, on 25 September 1943.

Adopt operated at San Diego as an escort ship through 26 May 1944. That same month, she reported for duty to the Commander,Western Sea Frontier. She left the U.S. West Coast on 6 June 1944 and shaped a course forPearl Harbor,Territory of Hawaii, and took part in a 10-day period ofantisubmarine warfare exercises in the waters of theHawaiian Islands under the auspices of Commander,Task Force 1. On 23 June 1944, she departed Hawaii in aconvoy bound for theTerritory of Alaska.

Adopt reachedAdak in theAleutian Islands on 29 June 1944. She was subsequently based there atNaval Operating Base Kuluk Bay. During her service in Alaskan waters,Adopt carried out tactical and gunnery drills, held minesweeping exercises, and provided convoy escort services.

Selected for transfer to theSoviet Navy inProject Hula – a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy atCold Bay, Alaska, in anticipation of theSoviet Union joining thewar against Japan –Adopt steamed into the anchorage at Cold Harbor in June 1945 and began training her new Soviet crew.

Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew,Adopt wasdecommissioned on 19 July 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union underLend-Lease immediately. Also commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately, she was designated as atralshik ("minesweeper") and renamedT-332^[2] in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound forPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union, where she served in theSoviet Far East.^[3]

In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II, and on 8 May 1947,United States Secretary of the NavyJames V. Forrestal informed theUnited States Department of State that theUnited States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned. Deteroriating relations between the two countries as theCold War broke out led to protracted negotiations over the ships, and by the mid-1950s the U.S. Navy found it too expensive to bring home ships that had become worthless to it anyway. Many ex-American ships were merely administratively "returned" to the United States and instead sold for scrap in the Soviet Union, while others by mutual agreement between the two countries were destroyed off the Soviet coast under the observation of American naval authorities.^[4]

Although she was never returned to the United States, the U.S. Navy reclassified the ship as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated herMSF-137 on 7 February 1955.T-332 was stricken by the Soviet Navy in 1960 and presumably sold for scrap.^[3]

•  This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be foundhere.

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