USS Penetrate (AM-271) was an Admirable-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1945.

On 14 April 1944, Penetrate stood downriver from Chickasaw to the Gulf of Mexico and from there proceeded to the United States East Coast and shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay.

By late May 1944, she was undergoing training in Casco Bay, Maine, and, on 1 June 1944, she steamed north to Naval Station Argentia in the Dominion of Newfoundland, where she was converted to a weather ship.

[3] The Soviet Union never returned Penetrate to the United States, instead converting her into a naval trawler in 1948[citation needed] and renaming her Taifun.

[citation needed] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.