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Minesweeper of the United States Navy

Method seen in 1945 History United States Name USS Method (AM-264) Builder American Shipbuilding Company, Lorain, Ohio Laid down 7 June 1943 Launched 23 October 1943 Sponsored by Mrs. K. C. Thorton Commissioned 10 July 1944 Decommissioned 21 May 1945[1] Fate Transferred to Soviet Navy, 21 May 1945[1] Reclassified MSF-264, 7 February 1955 Stricken 1 January 1983[citation needed] History Soviet Union Name T-276[2] Acquired 21 May 1945[1] Commissioned 21 May 1945[1] Refit Converted to whalecatcher, 1948 Renamed Purga, 1948 Fate Scrapped 1960[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) Propulsion 2 × ALCO 539 diesel engines, 1,710 shp (1.3 MW) Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear 2 shafts Speed 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) Complement 104 Armament 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun DP 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × depth charge tracks Service record Part of United States Atlantic Fleet (1944-1945) United States Pacific Fleet (1945) Soviet Pacific Ocean Fleet (1945-1960)

**USS *Method* (AM-264)** was an [*Admirable*-class](/source/Admirable-class_minesweeper) [minesweeper](/source/Minesweeper) built for the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy) during [World War II](/source/World_War_II) and in commission from 1944 to 1945. In 1945, she was transferred to the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) and served in the [Soviet Navy](/source/Soviet_Navy) after that as ***T-276***. The Soviets converted her into a [whalecatcher](/source/Whalecatcher) in 1948 and renamed her ***Purga***.

## Construction and commissioning

*Method* was [laid down](/source/Keel_laying) on 7 June 1943 at [Lorain, Ohio](/source/Lorain%2C_Ohio), by the [American Shipbuilding Company](/source/American_Shipbuilding_Company), [launched](/source/Ship_naming_and_launching) on 23 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. K. C. Thorton, and [commissioned](/source/Ship_commissioning) on 10 July 1944.

## Service history

### U.S. Navy, World War II, 1944-1945

*Method* departed Lorain, Ohio, on 12 July 1944 and steamed via the [St. Lawrence River](/source/St._Lawrence_River) to [Little Creek, Virginia](/source/Little_Creek%2C_Virginia). Arriving there on 19 August 1944, she underwent [shakedown](/source/Shakedown_cruise) training and on 27 September 1944 headed north to [Casco Bay](/source/Casco_Bay), [Maine](/source/Maine), for abbreviated [antisubmarine warfare](/source/Antisubmarine_warfare) training. Thence, as a unit of [Mine Division 37](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mine_Division_37&action=edit&redlink=1), she headed south and on 5 October 1944 arrived at [Port Royal Bay](/source/Port_Royal_Bay), Bermuda, the western terminus of the southern [transatlantic](/source/Transatlantic_voyage) [convoy](/source/Convoy) route . She remained at Port Royal Bay until 8 November 1944, when she got underway for [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk%2C_Virginia), Virginia. There, for a month and a half, she conducted patrols and [minesweeping](/source/Minesweeper_(ship)) operations and towed targets.

At the end of December 1944, *Method* reported for duty with [Task Force](/source/Task_Force) 29, joining [Mine Division 31](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mine_Division_31&action=edit&redlink=1). On 15 January 1945, she cleared [Hampton Roads](/source/Hampton_Roads%2C_Virginia), Virginia, as escort to a [gasoline](/source/Gasoline) (petrol) [tanker](/source/Tanker_(ship)) bound for [Navassa Island](/source/Navassa_Island). Detached from that duty on 20 January 1945, she continued on to the [Panama Canal Zone](/source/Panama_Canal_Zone), transited the [Panama Canal](/source/Panama_Canal) on 24 January 1945, and arrived at [San Diego, California](/source/San_Diego%2C_California), on 2 February 1945 to report for duty with the [Western Sea Frontier](/source/Western_Sea_Frontier). In mid-February 1945 she steamed north to [Washington](/source/Washington_(U.S._state)), where she operated with the [Strait of Juan de Fuca](/source/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca) Defense Unit.

Selected for transfer to the [Soviet Navy](/source/Soviet_Navy) in [Project Hula](/source/Project_Hula) – a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at [Cold Bay](/source/Cold_Bay%2C_Alaska), [Territory of Alaska](/source/Territory_of_Alaska), in anticipation of the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) joining the [war against Japan](/source/Pacific_War) – *Method* ceased her activities in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and departed on 26 March 1945 for Cold Bay, where she arrived on 4 April 1945 to begin familiarization training of her new Soviet crew.[3]

### Soviet Navy, 1945-1960

Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, *Method* was [decommissioned](/source/Ship_decommissioning) on 21 May 1945[1] at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under [Lend-Lease](/source/Lend-Lease) immediately.[1] Also commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately,[1] she was designated as a **tralshik** ("minesweeper") and renamed *T-276*[2] in Soviet service. Allocated to the Pacific Fleet (Тихо Oкеанский флот - TOF), she soon departed Cold Bay bound for [Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky](/source/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) in the Soviet Union, where she served in the [Soviet Far East](/source/Soviet_Far_East).[3][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 Navy](/source/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Navy) [James V. Forrestal](/source/James_V._Forrestal) informed the [United States Department of State](/source/United_States_Department_of_State) that the [United States Department of the Navy](/source/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](/source/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 *Method* to the United States, instead transferring her to "Glavpromorrybprom" in 1948[4] for conversion to the [whalecatcher](/source/Whalecatcher) *Purga*.[6]

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy reclassified *Method* as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated her MSF-264 on 7 February 1955.

## Disposal

The ship was scrapped in 1960.[3] Unaware of her fate, the U.S. Navy kept *Method* on its [Naval Vessel Register](/source/Naval_Vessel_Register) until finally striking her on 1 January 1983.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-transfer_date_1-6) The [*Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships* *Method*](https://web.archive.org/web/20040317221410/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m10/method.htm) article states that the U.S. Navy decommissioned *Method* on 20 May 1945 and transferred her to the Soviet Navy the same day, and [hazegray.org *Method*](http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/mine/am264.htm) repeats this, while [NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive Method (MSF 264) ex-AM-264](http://www.navsource.net/archives/11/02264.htm) says that she was decommissioned on 20 May 1945 and transferred on 21 May 1945. However, more recent research in Russell, Richard A., *Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan*, Washington, D.C.: [Naval Historical Center](/source/Naval_Historical_Center), 1997, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-945274-35-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-945274-35-1), p. 39, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the [Cold War](/source/Cold_War), reports that the transfer date was 21 May 1945. According to Russell, Project Hula ships were decommissioned by the U.S. Navy simultaneously with their transfer to and commissioning by the Soviet Navy – see photo captions on p. 24 regarding the transfers of various [large infantry landing craft](/source/Large_infantry_landing_craft) (LCI(L)s) and information on p. 27 about the transfer of [USS *Coronado* (PF-38)](/source/USS_Coronado_(PF-38)), which Russell says typified the transfer process – indicating that *Method*'s U.S. Navy decommissioning, transfer, and Soviet Navy commissioning all occurred simultaneously in a single ceremony on 21 May 1945. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, *Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels* Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., *Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik* ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Soviet_name_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Soviet_name_2-1) [NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive Method (MSF 264) ex-AM-264](http://www.navsource.net/archives/11/02264.htm) and [hazegray.org *Method*](http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/mine/am264.htm) state that *Method* was named *T-274* in Soviet service, but more recent research in Russell, Richard A., *Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan*, Washington, D.C.: [Naval Historical Center](/source/Naval_Historical_Center), 1997, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-945274-35-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-945274-35-1), pp. 39-40, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the [Cold War](/source/Cold_War), finds that the ship's Soviet name was *T-276*, while the former [USS *Marvel* (AM-262)](/source/USS_Marvel), also transferred on 21 May 1945, had the Soviet name *T-274*. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, *Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels* Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., *Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik* ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Russell_p._39_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Russell_p._39_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Russell_p._39_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Russell_p._39_3-3) Russell, Richard A., *Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan*, Washington, D.C.: [Naval Historical Center](/source/Naval_Historical_Center), 1997, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-945274-35-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-945274-35-1), p. 39.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Rohwer_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Rohwer_4-1) Rohwer, Jurgen (2017). [*Stalin's Ocean-going Fleet*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Ay8rDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA258). Routledge. p. 258. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781351547840](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781351547840). Retrieved 23 October 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Russell, Richard A., *Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan*, Washington, D.C.: [Naval Historical Center](/source/Naval_Historical_Center), 1997, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-945274-35-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-945274-35-1), pp. 37-38, 39.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Lutsenko_6-0)** Lutsenko, Valeriy. ["Buran-type whale catcher"](http://soviet-trawler.narod.ru/pages/ussr/list_of_buran.html). *Fishing Fleet of Communist and Post-Communist Countries*. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

- *This article incorporates text from the [public domain](/source/Public_domain)*[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships](/source/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships)*. The entry can be found [here](http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m10/method.htm).*

- [Photo gallery](http://www.navsource.net/archives/11/02264.htm) of USS *Method* at NavSource Naval History

## See also

- [*Purga* as a whalecatcher](https://web.archive.org/web/20211023074946/http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3353922)

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