USFS Brant was an American fishery patrol vessel that operated in the waters of the Territory of Alaska and off Washington, California, and Mexico.

[2] She had a modern electrical system that included a 110-volt type A4H 150-ampere-hour Edison nickel-iron-alkaline storage battery, a radio, and an Allan Cunningham anchor windlass.

[2] At one point in 1926, she found herself disabled 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) off the Columbia River Bar on the Oregon-Washington border and sent out a distress signal;[2] a United States Coast Guard cutter responded and towed her to safety.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, she conducted patrols each spring off Neah Bay and Cape Flattery on the coast of Washington to protect populations of sea otters and fur seals during their annual northward migration.

[2] On 30 June 1929, she departed Seattle with Commissioner O'Malley aboard for a two-month inspection of fisheries in Alaska and of fur sealing operations on the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.

[2] Over the winter of 1933–1934, she was among several BOF vessels that underwent extensive renovations at Seattle funded by a US$20,000 appropriation by the Public Works Administration.

[2] During the mid- and late 1930s, she operated each autumn in Southeast Alaska, patrolling to protect the local fisheries and conducting surveys of salmon spawning streams.

[2][7] Brant's ventilation cowls on deck were trained forward and directed fresh air into the engine room, fanning the flames after the fire pump failed.

[2][7] Finally, with the fire again out of control and no means left aboard to fight it, Brant's captain feared that she might explode and ordered her crew to abandon ship, and they hurriedly jumped overboard.

[2][8] With her engine still running, the unmanned Brant began circling, endangering the men in the water, although her entire crew of eight was rescued by small vessels in the vicinity and survived uninjured.

[2][7] Several explosions occurred in Brant′s after hold where oxygen tanks were stowed,[2][7] and she sank in the Pacific Ocean in 150 feet (46 m) of water off Point Conception at around 14:00.