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Peril (MSF 272)
ex-AM-272)



Call sign:
Nan - Peter - Uncle - Love


Peril served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union
Admirable Class Minesweeper:

  • Laid down 1 February 1943 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL
  • Launched 25 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS Peril (AM 272), 2 April 1944
  • Decommissioned 20 May 1945 at Cold Bay, AK
  • Transfered to the Soviet Union 22 May 1945 and reclassified T-281
  • Assigned to the Pacific Fleet 27 June 1945
  • Participated in the landing at Rasin, Korea 12 August 1945
  • Awarded the "Guards Rank" 26 August 1945
  • Reclassified by U.S. Navy as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-272, 7 February 1955
  • Reclassified BRN-32, 3 December 1956
  • Scrapped 18 January 1960.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 945 t. (fl)
  • Length 184' 6"
  • Beam 33'
  • Draft 9' 9"
  • Speed 14.8 kts.
  • Complement 104
  • Armament: One 3"/50 cal. dual purpose mount, one twin 40mm gun mount, six 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge projector (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectors (K-guns), and two depth
    charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 855shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    American Ship Building
    110226902    		 263k The Peril (AM-272) was built by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, AL, a few miles upstream of the Port of Mobile.
    Here in August 1917, after the United States entered World War I, U.S. Steel established Chickasaw Shipbuilding. The yard closed after World War I but was reopened in 1940 by Waterman Steamship Corp. as Gulf Shipbuilding.     		Insert photos courtesy of catalog.archives.gov & catalog.archives.gov
    Photo courtesy of destroyerhistory.org
    American Ship Building
    110227002    		 263k Rear Admiral Popov speaks aboard an Admirable-class minesweeper during the ship's transfer ceremony, probably on 21 or 22 May 1945. United States Navy photo via National Archives - Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, page 21. Caption information from same source., Public Domain, wikimedia.org
    Peril 67k George Pol
    Peril 53k
    Peril 59k c. 1947/1947
    Peril 64k
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR Donald Wilson Phillips, USNR2 April 1944 - 18 February 1945
    02LT Arthur Patrick Keegan, Jr., USNR18 February 1945 - 20 May 1945
    Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler, Ron Reeves and R. A. Moody
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