USS Fancy
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USS Fancy (AM-234) was an Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built for the United States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945. In 1945, she was transferred to the Soviet Union and served in the Soviet Navy after that as T-272[1] and Vyuga.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Construction and commissioning
Fancy was launched on 4 September 1944 at Seattle, , Washington by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, sponsored by Mrs. E. L. Skeel, and was commissioned on 13 December 1944.
Service history
Following shakedown and antisubmarine training, Fancy departed Seattle for Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 15 February 1945. Selected for transfer to the Soviet Navy in Project Hula – a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay, Territory of Alaska, in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan – Fancy, in company with three other ships earmarked for Project Hula – her sister ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and the auxiliary motor minesweepers Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". – departed Pearl Harbor on 7 March 1945 and steamed back to Seattle, arriving there on 19 March 1945. She then proceeded to Kodiak, Alaska, and then to Cold Bay to begin familiarization training of her new Soviet crew.[1][2]
Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, Fancy was decommissioned on 21 May 1945[3] at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease immediately.[3] Also commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately,[3] she was designated as a Script error: No such module "Lang". ("minesweeper") and renamed T-272[4] in Soviet service. She soon departed Cold Bay bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union, where she served in the Soviet Far East.[1] The Soviets converted her into a naval trawler in 1948Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and renamed her Vyuga.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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 Navy James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United 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 the Cold 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 returned Fancy to the United States, although the U.S. Navy reclassified her as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated her MSF-234 on 7 February 1955.
T-272 was scrapped in 1960.[1] Unaware of the shipTemplate:'s fate, the U.S. Navy retained Fancy on its Naval Vessel Register until her name was stricken on 1 January 1983.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
References
- Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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- ↑ Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, Template:ISBN, pp. 37-38, 39.
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