USS Quest (AM-281)

As RPS Mount Samat (APO-21) of the Philippine Navy
History
United States
Name	USS Quest
Builder	Gulf Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	24 November 1943
Launched	16 March 1944
Commissioned	25 October 1944
Decommissioned	May 1946
Stricken	29 September 1947
Fate	Transferred to the Philippines, 2 July 1948
History
Philippines
Name	RPS Pag-asa (APO-21)
Acquired	2 July 1948
Renamed	RPS Santa Maria, 1955
Renamed	RPS Mount Samat (TK-21)
Decommissioned	1970
Fate	Sank at Sangley Point during Typhoon Dot (Anding) on 21 September 1993[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Admirable-class minesweeper
Displacement	650 long tons (660 t)
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:	US Pacific Fleet (1944-1946)
Awards:	2 Battle stars

USS Quest (AM-281) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was decommissioned in 1947 after wartime service and transferred to the Philippine Navy in 1948 where she served as presidential yacht RPS Pag-asa (APO-21). In 1955, she was renamed Santa Maria and, later, Mount Samat (TK-21), serving as a patrol corvette of the Miguel Malvar class. She was decommissioned from the Philippine Navy in 1970; beyond that, her fate is not reported in secondary sources.