Bond seen in June 1944
History
United States
Name	USSBond (AMc-129)
Builder	Willamette Iron and Steel Works,Portland,Oregon
Reclassified	AM-152, 21 February 1942
Laid down	11 April 1942
Launched	21 October 1942
Commissioned	30 August 1943
Decommissioned	17 August 1945
Fate	Transferred toSoviet Navy, 17 August 1945
Reclassified	MSF-152, 7 February 1955
Stricken	1 January 1983
History
Soviet Union
Name	T-285[1]
Acquired	17 August 1945
Commissioned	17 August 1945[2]
Renamed	BRN-37, 11 July 1956
Reclassified	Auxiliary vessel (BRN), 11 July 1956
Decommissioned	18 January 1960
Fate	Scrapped 1960[3]
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 × ALCO 539diesel engines, 1,710 shp (1.3 MW) Farrel-Birminghamsingle reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed	14.8 knots (27.4 km/h)
Complement	104
Armament	1 ×3"/50 caliber gun DP 2 × twinBofors 40 mm guns 1 ×Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 ×depth charge tracks
Service record
Part of:	U.S. Pacific Fleet (1943–1945) Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet (1945–1960)

USSBond (AM-152) 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 Union and served after that in theSoviet Navy asT-285 and asBRN-37.

originally classified as a "coastal minesweeper,"AMc-129,Bond was reclassified as a "minesweeper,"AM-152, on 21 February 1942. She waslaid down on 11 April 1942 atPortland,Oregon, by theWillamette Iron and Steel Works,launched on 21 October 1942, andcommissioned on 30 August 1943.

Followingshakedown training,Bond engaged in patrols out ofSan Pedro,California, from 2 October to 20 November 1943. On the latter day, she got underway for theHawaiian Islands and arrived atPearl Harbor,Territory of Hawaii, on 30 November 1943. She remained there until 7 December 1943, when she shaped a course for theTerritory of Alaska. She arrived atAdak in theAleutian Islands on 13 December 1943 and began patrols and escort duty. Over the next six months, her assignment took her toAttu,Kiska,Dutch Harbor, andAmchitka as well as Adak.

Bond departed Dutch Harbor forSan Francisco, California, early in the summer of 1944. Following repairs at San Francisco,Bond put to sea on 8 August 1944, bound for theMariana Islands. She made stops at Pearl Harbor and atEniwetok Atoll in theMarshall Islands before arriving atSaipan in theMariana Islands on 2 September 1944. For the next seven months,Bond patrolled in the vicinity of Saipan and escortedconvoys between Saipan,Ulithi,Guam, and Eniwetok. She left Saipan on 25 April 1945 and, after steaming via Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor, arrived at Portland, Oregon, on 22 May 1945.

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 – Bond underwent pre-transfer repairs at Portland and atSeattle,Washington, before moving north to Cold Bay in the summer of 1945 to begin familiarization training for her new Soviet crew.^[4]

Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew,Bond wasdecommissioned on 17 August 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union underLend-Lease immediately. Also commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately,^[2] she was designated as atralshik ("minesweeper") and renamedT-285^[1] in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound forPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union, where she served in theSoviet Far East.^[4]

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. Deteriorating 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 the U.S. Navy did not seriously pursue the return of others because it viewed them as no longer worth the cost of recovery.^[5] The Soviet Union never returnedBond to the United States, although the U.S. Navy reclassified her as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated herMSF-152 on 7 February 1955. The Soviet Navy, meanwhile, reclassified the ship as an "auxiliary vessel" (BRN) on 11 July 1956 and renamed herBRN-37 the same day.

The Soviet Navy decommissionedBRN-37 18 January 1960 and sold her for scrapping that year.^[3] Unaware of her fate, the U.S. Navy keptBond on itsNaval Vessel Register until finally striking her on 1 January 1983.

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

• Photo gallery of USSBond (AM-152) at NavSource Naval History

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