The USS Pert (PG-95) was a Canadian-built corvette that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Laid down on July 22, 1942, by Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. in Quebec, Canada, she was launched on November 27, 1942, and commissioned at Quebec on July 23, 1943. The vessel was one of eight corvettes transferred from Canada to the U.S. Navy for operation by the Coast Guard. After her commissioning, Pert remained in Quebec until September 7, 1943, before sailing with USS Prudent via Halifax to Boston, arriving on September 18. Following her fitting out and an intensive shakedown off Bermuda in early November, she returned to New York on November 20 and was assigned to the Eastern Sea Frontier. Her primary duty involved convoy escort patrols along the U.S. East Coast and into the Caribbean, crucial for safeguarding Allied shipping from German U-boat threats. Pert’s operational history included screening Convoy NG-401 from New York to Guantanamo Bay from late November to early December 1943. Notably, on December 2, she conducted a depth charge attack against a suspected submarine, although without success. She continued her escort duties, including participation in convoy NG-406, and contributed significantly to anti-submarine efforts. Based at Tompkinsville, N.Y., Pert operated alongside sister ships such as USS Action and Impulse, helping to reduce the U-boat threat and support larger destroyer hunter-killer patrols. Following the end of World War II, Pert operated out of the 3d Naval District until her decommissioning on October 3, 1945. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on October 24, 1945, and she was transferred to the Maritime Commission in October 1946, then sold to the United Boat Service Co. of City Island, N.Y. Subsequently renamed Olympic Leader in 1950, she changed hands again, becoming Otori Maru No. 1 in 1956 and Kyo Maru No. 15 in 1957, serving in commercial maritime roles. Pert’s service exemplifies the vital escort and patrol operations conducted by smaller warships in the Atlantic theater during WWII.

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