.jpg) USS Candid off San Francisco, 1 February 1944 | |
| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USSCandid (AMc-131) |
| Builder | Willamette Iron and Steel Works |
| Reclassified | AM-154, 21 February 1942 |
| Laid down | 27 April 1942 |
| Launched | 14 October 1942 |
| Commissioned | 31 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 17 August 1945[1] |
| Fate | Transferred toSoviet Navy 17 August 1945 |
| Reclassified | MSF-154, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 January 1983 |
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 Soviet Union | |
| Name | T-283[2] |
| Acquired | 17 August 1945 |
| Commissioned | 17 August 1945[1] |
| Fate | Stricken 1958[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) |
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| Speed | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement | 104 |
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USSCandid (AM-154) 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-283.
Originally classified as a "coastal minesweeper,"AMc-131,Candid was reclassified as a "minesweeper,"AM-154, on 21 February 1942. She waslaunched on 14 October 1942 atPortland,Oregon, byWillamette Iron and Steel Works andcommissioned on 31 October 1943.
Candid departedSan Francisco,California, on 28 February 1944 for duty in the waters of theTerritory of Alaska. Called upon to escortconvoys and conduct patrols as well as tosweep for mines, she sailed through stormy waters to fog-bound ports in theAleutian Islands, supportingUnited States Army units on the isolated islands and backing up U.S. Navy attacks on theKuril Islands of northern Japan. She returned to San Francisco on 18 August 1944, and two weeks later got underway for theMarshall Islands for operations there and in theMariana Islands, providing local escort services in support of the consolidation of these islands and their development as bases for naval and air strikes against the Japanese.
On 16 April 1945,Candid got underway forSeattle,Washington and anoverhaul. 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 – she departed Seattle in the summer of 1945 after the completion of her overhaul and proceeded to Cold Bay to begin familiarization training for her new Soviet crew.[4]
Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew,Candid wasdecommissioned on 17 August 1945[1] at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union underLend-Lease immediately.[1] Also commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately,[1] she was designated as atralshik ("minesweeper") and renamedT-283[2] 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 returnedCandid to the United States, although the U.S. Navy reclassified her as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated herMSF-154 on 7 February 1955.
The Soviet Navy struckT-283 from its vessel register in 1958.[3] Unaware of her fate, the U.S. Navy keptCandid on itsNaval Vessel Register until finally striking her on 1 January 1983.
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