High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Palisade (AM-270) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II. Initially serving in the Atlantic Ocean—part of the time as a weather ship—she was transferred to the Pacific Ocean in February 1945. The following May she was transferred to the Soviet Navy as T-279 and was reportedly sunk by mines off the coast of Korea in August.