USS Pigeon (AM-374) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.

After fitting out at the Charleston Navy Yard and operations out of the Naval Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia, Pigeon was decommissioned on 10 July 1946.

On 25 August 1952 she departed Charleston, with Mine Division 82 for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization combined fleet exercise Operation Mainbrace.

Pigeon returned to Falmouth, England on 27 September 1952 and sailed the 29th with the same amphibious attack force for NATO "Operation Longstep" in the Mediterranean.

Overhauled in the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Pigeon resumed readiness and training operations along the eastern seaboard as far north as Quebec, Canada.