Career
Mirth was laid down 31 July 1943 by American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, Ohio; launched 24 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. B. E. Gathercoal; and commissioned 12 August 1944, Lt. M. A. Rusteen, USNR, in command. After shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, Mirth, a unit of MinDiv 37, got underway for brief duty with the Naval Operating Base, Bermuda, 29 November 1944. During December she operated from St. George's Bay, sweeping the channels, conducting antisubmarine patrols, thus ensuring safe passage into the western terminus of the southern convoy routes, and escorting single vessels to mid-ocean join-ups with convoys en route.
She returned to Virginia at the end of the month and continued on to New York 3 January 1945. She remained in the New York area throughout January. She departed 8 February for the Panama Canal and further routing to Cold Bay, Alaska. Arriving at the northern port 3 April, Mirth conducted coastal exercises and trained sailors of the Soviet Navy until 21 May.
She was decommissioned and transferred under the terms of Lend-Lease as T-275. The Soviets converted T-274 into a naval trawler in 1948 and renamed her Musson. She was stricken in 1964, never having been return to U.S. Navy custody. Her ultimate fate is unreported in secondary sources.
Unaware of the ship's fate, the U.S. Navy reclassified her as MSF-264 on 7 February 1955, and she remained on the American Naval Vessel Register until her name was stricken on 1 January 1983.
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