USS Fancy
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Fancy (AM-234) |
| Builder | Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, Seattle, Washington |
| Laid down | 12 May 1944 |
| Launched | 4 September 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. E. L. Skeel |
| Commissioned | 13 December 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 21 May 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Soviet Union, 21 May 1945 |
| Reclassified | MSF-234, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 January 1983 |
| History | |
| Soviet Union | |
| Name | T-272 |
| Acquired | 21 May 1945 |
| Commissioned | 21 May 1945 |
| Refit | Converted to naval trawler, 1948 |
| Renamed | Vyuga, 1948 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement | 104 |
| Armament |
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USS Fancy (AM-234) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945. In 1945, she was transferred to the Soviet Union and served in the Soviet Navy after that as T-272 and Vyuga.