USS Quest (AM-281)
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As RPS Mount Samat (APO-21) of the Philippine Navy
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Quest |
| Builder: | Gulf Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 24 November 1943 |
| Launched: | 16 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 25 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | May 1946 |
| Struck: | 29 September 1947 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Philippines, 2 July 1948 |
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 Philippines
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| Name: | RPS Pag-asa (APO-21) |
| Acquired: | 2 July 1948 |
| Renamed: | RPS Santa Maria, 1955 |
| Renamed: | RPS Mount Samat (TK-21) |
| Decommissioned: | 1970 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| 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) |
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| Speed: | 14.8 knots (27.4 km/h) |
| Complement: | 104 |
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| 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.
Quest was laid down 24 November 1943 by Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Alabama; launched 16 March 1944; sponsored by Mrs. O. R. Johnson, and commissioned 25 October 1944, Lt. J. T. Riley, Jr., USNR in command.
After fitting out, training, and shakedown exercises, Quest sailed for Portland, Maine, 21 December to report for duty with task group CTG 23.9. Upon arriving at Portland, the minesweeper participated in antisubmarine exercises until departing for Norfolk, Virginia, 29 December. Arriving 31 December, she remained there until 4 January 1945, when she departed for the Panama Canal Zone en route to the Pacific Fleet. During her voyage to the Panama Canal Zone, she served as convoy escort to repair ship Coronis and oiler Kaweah.
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