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NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive
Courtesy of Gerard Buonincontri, ET3

Prevail (AGS 20)
ex-AM-107



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Romeo - Xray
Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 15 November 1941 at Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc., Beaumont, TX; Launched, 13 September 1942; Commissioned USS Prevail (AM-107), 17 April 1943; Decommissioned, 31 May 1946 at San Pedro, CA; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; Recommissioned 1 April 1952 as a Survey Ship, AGS-20; Decommissioned in 1963; Struck from the Naval Register, 10 January 1964; Sold for scrap 13 October 1964 to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp. of New York, NY.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 2"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18.1 kts.; Complement 105; Armament, one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two single 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion two 3,118shp Busch Sulzer 539 diesel electric engines, Westinghouse reduction gear, two shafts.

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USS Prevail (AM 107)
Prevail 110 23 April 1943
U.S. Navy Photo.		 Joe Radigan
Prevail 49k c. December 1945
Shanghai, China.
Nested outboard of Threat (AM 124) and Velocity (AM 128).		 Hyperwar U.S. Navy in World War II
Velocity 131k c. December 1945
Shanghai, China.
Nested outboard of Threat (AM 124) and Velocity (AM 128).		 Dennis E. Wright
Prevail 148 c. 1952
After recommissioning.		 John Adler
USS Prevail (AGS 20)
Prevail 93 . Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy
Prevail 84 . Gerard Buonincontri, ET3 via John Buonincontri
Prevail 70 Brooklyn Navy Yard Gerard Buonincontri, ET3 via John Buonincontri
Prevail 94 Navy Repair Facility, Staten Island, NY Gerard Buonincontri, ET3 via John Buonincontri
Prevail 67 Navy Repair Facility, Staten Island, NY Gerard Buonincontri, ET3 via John Buonincontri
Prevail 59 Navy Repair Facility, Staten Island, NY Gerard Buonincontri, ET3 via John Buonincontri
Prevail 73 c. 1957
La Scie, Newfoundland, Canada		 John Adler EM1 (former crew member)
Prevail 69 20 August 1958
Norway		 Gerard Buonincontri, ET3 via John Buonincontri
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