USS Strive (AM-117) 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.

Strive was laid down on 17 November 1941 by the American Ship Building Company, Cleveland, Ohio; launched on 16 May 1942; sponsored by Mrs. G. Lottrall; and commissioned on 27 October 1942.

Following operations along the U.S. East Coast, she sailed from New York Harbor on 19 March with a task group bound, via Bermuda, for North Africa.

Strive joined the invasion force en route to Palermo, Sicily, and arrived off the landing beaches on 9 July.

She swept mines and acted as a patrol ship until 2 February when she escorted a convoy to Naples and then proceeded to Bizerte.

Strive then swept and patrolled the Golfe de Frejus area until the 28th when she began sweeping off Toulon.

Strive joined a landing craft convoy as an escort and sailed on 24 November for the United States.

Strive got underway on 15 February with a task unit bound for Hawaii, transited the Panama Canal, and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 18 March.

On 13 August, two days before hostilities ended, she was ordered to sweep the "Skagway" area of the East China Sea.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.