USS Barbet ( AMS - 41 ) USS " Barbet " ( AMS - 41 / YMS - 45 ) was a " YMS - 1 " - class auxiliary motor minesweeper acquired by the U . S . Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent ships from passing . " YMS 45 " was laid down on 20 June 1941 at Brooklyn , New York , by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp . ; launched on 20 April 1942 ; and commissioned on 8 June 1942 , Lt . ( jg . ) LeRoy E . Rogers , Jr . , USNR , in command . World War II service . After trials and outfitting , the motor minesweeper reported for duty to the Commander , Eastern Sea Frontier . On 31 August , she departed Norfolk , Virginia , in company with " YMS - 44 " , bound for Bermuda . The ship operated as an escort vessel in the West Indies through the end of the war in Europe . She was based at Bermuda until 4 October 1943 when she and " YMS 44 " moved to Guantanamo Bay , Cuba . On 6 June 1945 , " YMS - 45 " headed for Hampton Roads , Virginia , and arrived at Norfolk on the 11th . Transfer to Pacific Fleet . She stood out to sea again on 18 July as an element of Task Unit ( TU ) 29 . 01 , bound for the Pacific Ocean . The motor minesweeper transited the Panama Canal between 29 July and 1 August and reached San Pedro , California , on 13 August . From that port , she shifted south to San Diego , California , where she remained for seven weeks . End - of - war operations . On 1 October , " YMS - 45 " put to sea and shaped a course for Oahu . The warship entered Pearl Harbor on the 13th and operated in Hawaiian waters until 1 December when , in company with four other motor minesweepers , she got underway for the Ryukyu Islands . She and her colleagues arrived in Buckner Bay , Okinawa , on 20 December and conducted minesweeping operations in those waters for about a month . After a three week visit to Sasebo , Japan , in February 1946 , the warship returned home via Pearl Harbor . She reached San Francisco , California , on 28 March and remained there until 13 June . On that day , the ship headed south with task unit TU 99 . 12 . 9 . Steaming by way of San Diego , she arrived in the Panama Canal Zone on 28 June . She entered port at New York on 12 July and was decommissioned there on 5 August 1946 . Naval Reserve training ship . The minesweeper remained in reserve until 13 January 1947 when she was placed in service as a school ship for reservists of the 3d Naval District . On 19 August 1947 , " YMS 45 " was named " Barbet " and redesignated " AMS 41 " . Reactivation during Korean War . On 11 May 1950 , the warship was placed in commission , in reserve . On 21 November 1950 , she was placed in full commission . The minesweeper continued to serve as a school ship for New York reservists until early in 1952 when she was reassigned to Mine Squadron ( MinRon ) 4 and to the Mine Countermeasures Station at Panama City , Florida . That duty , punctuated by repair periods at various locations along the U . S . East Coast , filled the remainder of her active career . Final decommissioning . " Barbet " was redesignated " MSC0 - 41 " on 7 February 1955 ; but , on 18 April 1955 , she began inactivation preparations at Green Cove Springs , Florida . She was decommissioned at that port on 17 June 1955 and remained in reserve there for a little more than four years . Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 November 1960 . Details regarding her ultimate disposition are unavailable , but , presumably , she was scrapped . Military awards and honors . " Barbet " ( " AMS - 41 " ) earned one battle star as " YMS - 45 " for her role in the postwar minesweeping performed off Okinawa and in Japanese waters .