USS Enhance (AM-437/MSO-437) was an Aggressive-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships.
[1] From her home port, Long Beach, California, Enhance operated along the U.S. West Coast on training and exercises in mine warfare.
During that fall's crisis over the Suez Canal, Enhance patrolled in the Sea of Japan, recording the movement of shipping, as part of the intensified alertness required of the Navy during periods of international tension anywhere in the world.
Enhance spent the remainder of the year conducting type training and undergoing overhaul at San Diego.
[citation needed] On 17 March 1973, during Operation End Sweep, Enhance had an engine room fire which seriously damaged the ship.