History United States Name USS Assail (AMc-123) Builder Tampa Shipbuilding Company Reclassified AM-147, 21 February 1942 Laid down 1 November 1942 Launched 27 December 1942 Completed 5 October 1943 Fate Transferred to the USSR , 5 October 1943 Reclassified MSF-147, 7 February 1955 Stricken 1 January 1983 History Soviet Union Name T-120 Acquired 5 October 1943 Fate Torpedoed and sunk, 24 September 1944 General characteristics Class and type Admirable -class minesweeperDisplacement 650 tons Length 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) Beam 33 ft (10 m) Draft 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) Propulsion Speed 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) Complement 104 Armament
T-120 minesweeper of the Soviet Navy during World War II and the Cold War . She had originally been built as USS Assail (AM-147) , an Admirable -classminesweeper , for the United States Navy during World War II , but never saw active service in the U.S. Navy. Upon completion she was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease as T-120 ; she was never returned to the United States. T-120 was sunk by U-739 Kara Sea in September 1944. Because of the Cold War , the U.S. Navy was unaware of this fate and the vessel remained on the American Naval Vessel Register until she was struck on 1 January 1983.
Career
Assail was laid down on 1 November 1942 at Tampa, Florida , by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 27 December 1942; sponsored by Miss M. T. Hicks; and completed on 5 October 1943. She was transferred to the Soviet Union on the day she was completed under the lend-lease program, and she served the Soviet Navy as T-120 until she was torpedoed and sunk 24 September 1944 in the Kara Sea by German submarine U-739
Never returned, Assail was carried on the American Naval Vessel Register as MSF-147 after 7 February 1955 until struck on 1 January 1983.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in September 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Sep: HMS Hurst Castle , Kehdingen U-247 2 Sep: Empire Curzon U-394 5 Sep: U-362 7 Sep: Shinyō Maru incident ), Westfalen 8 Sep: Rex 9 Sep: Sava U-484 10 Sep: U-20 U-23 11 Sep: Giulio Cesare U-19 12 Sep: Korei Maru Nankai Maru USS Noa , Rakuto Maru Rakuyō Maru Shikinami 13 Sep: USS Perry , USS Warrington 14 Sep: Irene Oldendorff 16 Sep: I-364 17 Sep: Un'yō 18 Sep: Dr. Heinrich Wiegand Gyōkū Maru Jun'yō Maru 19 Sep: Isoshima U-407 U-867 21 Sep: China Maru Hōfuku Maru Katsuriki Noshiro Maru Satsuki 22 Sep: Drache 23 Sep: Taranto U-859 24 Sep: Akitsushima Siberia Maru T-120 Yaeyama 25 Sep: USS Miantonomah 26 Sep: Aotaka Ro-47 Saga U-871 27 Sep: HMS Rockingham , Ural Maru 28 Sep: Dragoner 29 Sep: U-863 30 Sep: U-565 U-596 U-1062 Unknown date: U-703 U-855 U-865 U-921 Other incidents
