USS Bobolink (AMS-2/YMS-164) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent ships from passing.

In July 1944, she voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean to participate in the invasion of southern France and, but for refueling and replenishment breaks at Corsica, remained off that coast sweeping mines from the first assaults on the morning of 15 August until 21 September.

The minesweeper headed back to the United States late in June 1945 and arrived in New York on Independence Day of that year.

Not long thereafter, YMS-164 moved to the U.S. West Coast and ultimately to duty at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where she was serving at the end of World War II.

Bobolink was recommissioned at San Diego on 9 May 1950, and soon returned to active operations out of Pearl Harbor as a unit of the Pacific Fleet Mine Force.