History
United States
Name	USSPeril (AM-272)
Builder	Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation,Chickasaw, Alabama
Laid down	1 February 1943
Launched	25 July 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. Morris Sorbet
Commissioned	2 April 1944
Decommissioned	22 May 1945[1]
Fate	Transferred toSoviet Navy, 22 May 1945[1]
Reclassified	MSF-272, 7 February 1955
Stricken	1 January 1983[citation needed]
History
Soviet Union
Name	T-281
Acquired	22 May 1945[1]
Commissioned	22 May 1945[1]
Honors & awards	Guards rank and ensign, 26 August 1945, forWorld War II service
Fate	Scrapped 1960[2]
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 ×Hedgehoganti-submarinemortar 2 ×depth charge tracks
Service record
Part of:	United States Atlantic Fleet (1944–1945) Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet (1945–1960)

USSPeril (AM-272) was anAdmirable-classminesweeper built for theUnited States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945. In 1945, she was transferred to theSoviet Union and after that served in theSoviet Navy asT-281.

Peril waslaid down on 1 February 1943 atChickasaw,Alabama, by theGulf Shipbuilding Corporation. She waslaunched on 25 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Morris Sorbet, andcommissioned on 20 April 1944.

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Peril departedBoston, on 5 February 1945, bound forPhiladelphia, where she underwentoverhaul from 8 to 27 February 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, Territory of Alaska, in anticipation of theSoviet Union joining thewar against Japan^[3] –Peril departed Philadelphia upon completion of her overhaul, transited thePanama Canal, and called atSan Diego,Seattle, andKodiak, Alaska, before arriving at Cold Bay on 28 April 1945 to train her new Soviet crew. Four Soviet Navyofficers and 40 enlisted men reported aboard on 1 May 1945, and two more officers and 32 enlisted men came aboard on 6 May 1945.

Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew,Peril wasdecommissioned on 22 May 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-281 in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound forPetropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union,^[3] where she entered service with the SovietPacific Ocean Fleet on 27 June 1945.^{[citation needed]}

After the Soviet Union entered the war on 8 August 1945,T-281 participated in theSoviet offensive against Japanese forces in Northeast Asia, including the Sovietamphibious landing atRajin-Sŏnbong, Korea, on 12 August 1945.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[4] The Soviet Union never returnedPeril to the United States, although the U.S. Navy reclassified her as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated herMSF-272 on 7 February 1955.

T-281 was scrapped in 1960.^[2] Unaware of her fate, the U.S. Navy keptPeril on itsNaval Vessel Register until finally striking her on 1 January 1983.^{[citation needed]}

The Soviet Union awardedT-281 theGuards rank and ensign on 26 August 1945 for her participation in operations against Japan in August 1945.^{[citation needed]}

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

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