 Following the completion of training for her Soviet crew, "Method" was decommissioned on 21 May 1945 at Cold Bay and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease immediately.Also commissioned into the Soviet Navy immediately, she was designated as a "" ("minesweeper") and renamed T-276 in Soviet service.She soon departed Cold Bay bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Soviet Union, where she served in the Soviet Far East.