USS ''Prime'' (AM-279) was laid down 15 September 1943 by Gulf Shipbuilding Corp.,

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, launched 22 January 1944; sponsored by Mrs. L. W. Thompson, and commissioned 12 September 1944.

World War II Pacific Theatre operations

Following

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, USS Prime reported to Service Force Atlantic,

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, 1 December 1944. After duty off Bermuda and the

, she arrived at the

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, and reported for duty to the U.S. Pacific Fleet 12 July 1945. In September, while at Okinawa, she was assigned to the

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. Following a change of assignment from the 19th to the U.S. 16th Fleet, she was marked expendable in March 1946. Demilitarized, she steamed to Shanghai, China.

End-of-war deactivation

'' Prime'' was decommissioned 29 May 1946 and sold to China at Shanghai, China as Yung Feng (MMC-50) ( Republic of China Navy), decommissioned and struck from the

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1 May 1973. Fate unknown.

References

External links

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

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