USS Barrier (AM-150) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945.
She was laid down on 7 December 1942 at Tampa, Florida, by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Inc., launched on 23 February 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Eugenie Bradford, the wife of U.S. Navy Lieutenant L. M. Bradford, Assistant Technical Officer (Hull) at the builder's yard, and commissioned on 10 May 1944.
Following fitting out and shakedown training, Barrier transited the Panama Canal late in July 1944 and made a stop at San Francisco, California, early in August 1944 before beginning duty in the waters of the Territory of Alaska on 14 August 1944.
[4] The Soviet Union never returned Barrier to the United States, although the U.S. Navy reclassified her as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated her MSF-150 on 7 February 1955.
[3] Unaware of the ship's fate, the U.S. Navy carried Barrier on its Naval Vessel Register until finally striking her name on 1 January 1983.