USS ''Might'' (PG-94) was laid down as Canadian corvette CN-312 by Morton Engineering and Drydock Co., Ltd., Quebec, Canada, on 28 November 1941 and launched as HMS ''Musk'' on 15 July 1942. The ship was transferred to the

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on 20 July 1942, renamed ''Might'' on 14 August 1942, and commissioned at

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on 22 December 1942.

Service history

After fitting out and shakedown from

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, ''Might'' reported to the

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on 10 March 1943 at

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for convoy escort duty. Sailing primarily to

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and occasionally to

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, she continued this duty after transferring to the

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on 27 June. During the next 18 months, ''Might'' completed 21 voyages to Cuba and two to Key West. The protection she provided made it possible for this vital coastwise and

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traffic to continue despite

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menace and freed larger

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types for the hunter-killer operations which defeated the U‑boats in the

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. In November 1944, and continuously from 9 January to 1 May 1945, ''Might'' served week-long barrier patrols in the western Atlantic. After anti-submarine exercises out of her Staten Island base, ''Might'' arrived Charleston, S.C., on 28 June and decommissioned there on 9 October 1945. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 24 October 1945, and she was delivered to the Maritime Commission on 18 October 1946 for immediate transfer to her purchaser, United Boat Service Corp., City Island, N.Y.

Post-war

From 1950 to 1956 she was owned as ''Olympic Explorer'' by Balleneros Ltd., S.A.,

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, and sailed as a commercial whale chaser. Then sold to a Japanese shipping company, she was renamed ''Otori Maru No. 3'', and in 1957 was renamed ''Kyo Marti No. 12''.

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