| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Capable (AMc-132) |
| Builder | Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Oregon |
| Reclassified | AM-155, 21 February 1942 |
| Laid down | 12 May 1942 |
| Launched | 16 October 1942 |
| Commissioned | 5 December 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 17 August 1945[1] |
| Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy, 17 August 1945[1] |
| Reclassified | MSF-155, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 January 1983 |
| History | |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | T-339[2] |
| Acquired | 17 August 1945[1] |
| Commissioned | 17 August 1945[1] |
| Fate | Scrapped 1960[3] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Admirable-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 650 tons |
| Length | 184 ft 6 in (56.24 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 9 in (2.97 m) |
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| Speed | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement | 104 |
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USS Capable (AM-155) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. In 1945, she was transferred to the Soviet Union and then served in the Soviet Navy as T-339.
- ^ a b c d The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Capable article states that the U.S. Navy decommissioned Capable on 16 August 1945 and transferred her to the Soviet Navy, and NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive Capable (MSF 155) ex-AM-155 ex-AMc-132 and hazegray.org Capable repeat this. However, more recent research in Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, p. 39, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the Cold War, reports that the transfer date was 17 August 1945. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994. According to Russell, Project Hula ships were decommissioned by the U.S. Navy simultaneously with their transfer to and commissioning by the Soviet Navy – see photo captions on p. 24 regarding the transfers of various large infantry landing craft (LCI(L)s) and information on p. 27 about the transfer of USS Coronado (PF-38), which Russell says typified the transfer process – indicating that Capable's U.S. Navy decommissioning, transfer, and Soviet Navy commissioning all occurred simultaneously in a single ceremony on 17 August 1945.
- ^ NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive Capable (MSF 155) ex-AM-155 ex-AMc-132 and hazegray.org Capable state that Capable was named T-595 in Soviet service, but more recent research in Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, pp. 39-40, which includes access to Soviet-era records unavailable during the Cold War, finds that the ship's Soviet name was T-339, while an auxiliary motor minesweeper, the former USS YMS-184, also transferred in 1945, had the Soviet name T-595. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994.
- ^ NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive Capable (MSF 155) ex-AM-155 ex-AMc-132 and hazegray.org Capable state that the ship, which they identify as T-595, probably was scrapped in 1956, but more recent research in Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, p. 39, reports that the ship's Soviet name was T-339 and states that T-339 was scrapped in 1960. As sources, Russell cites Department of the Navy, Ships Data: U.S. Naval Vessels Volume II, 1 January 1949, (NAVSHIPS 250-012), Washington, DC: Bureau of Ships, 1949; and Berezhnoi, S. S., Flot SSSR: Korabli i suda lendliza: Spravochnik ("The Soviet Navy: Lend-Lease Ships and Vessels: A Reference"), St. Petersburg, Russia: Belen, 1994. Russell, p. 40., also states that T-595 – a Soviet name previously attributed to Capable but now identified as belonging to the former USS YMS-184 – was stricken in 1955, and this confusion over the identity of the two ships may have led to the confusion over their fates, although it does not explain the assertion that T-595 probably was scrapped in 1956.