USS ''Prime'' (AM-279) was laid down 15 September 1943 by

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

World War II Pacific Theatre operations

Following shakedown off the east coast, USS Prime reported to Service Force Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, 1 December 1944. After duty off

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and the east coast, she arrived at the Panama Canal Zone, and reported for duty to the

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12 July 1945. In September, while at

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, she was assigned to the Reserve Fleet. 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

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, China.

End-of-war deactivation

'' Prime'' was decommissioned 29 May 1946 and sold to China at

, China as Yung Feng (MMC-50) (

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), 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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