History
United States
Name	USSPrime (AM-279)
Builder	Gulf Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	15 September 1943
Launched	22 January 1944
Commissioned	12 September 1944
Decommissioned	29 May 1946
Fate	Sold to theRepublic of China, 1946
Stricken	1 May 1973
History
Taiwan
Name	ROCSYung Feng (MMC-50)
Acquired	1946
Fate	Unknown
General characteristics
Class & type	Admirable-class minesweeper
Displacement	650 tons 945 tons (full load)
Length	184 ft 6 in (56.24 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
Propulsion	2 ×Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, 1,710 shp National Supply Co. single reduction gear 2 shafts
Speed	14.8 knots (27.4 km/h)
Complement	104
Armament	1 ×3"/50 caliber gun DP 1 × twinBofors 40 mm guns 6 ×Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 1 ×Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 4 ×Depth charge projectors (K-guns) 2 × Depth charge racks
Service record
Part of:	US Pacific Fleet (1945-1946)

USSPrime (AM-279) was laid down 15 September 1943 byGulf Shipbuilding Corp.,Chickasaw, Alabama, launched 22 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. L. W. Thompson, and commissioned 12 September 1944.

Followingshakedown off theeast coast,USS Prime reported to Service Force Atlantic,Norfolk, Virginia, 1 December 1944. After duty offBermuda and theeast coast, she arrived at thePanama Canal Zone, and reported for duty to theU.S. Pacific Fleet 12 July 1945. In September, while atOkinawa, she was assigned to theReserve Fleet. Following a change of assignment from the 19th to theU.S. 16th Fleet, she was marked expendable in March 1946. Demilitarized, she steamed toShanghai, China.

Prime was decommissioned 29 May 1946 and sold to China atShanghai, China asYung Feng (MMC-50) (Republic of China Navy), decommissioned and struck from theNaval Register 1 May 1973. Fate unknown.

 This article incorporates text from thepublic domainDictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
• Photo gallery of USSPrime (AM-279) at NavSource Naval History

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