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Jubilant (AM / MSF 255)



Call sign: November - Golf - Romeo - Quebec



Jubilant served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

Admirable Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 22 October 1942 by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, OH; Launched, 20 February 1943; Commissioned USS Jubilant (AM 255), 27 August 1943; Decommissioned, 18 May 1946 at Orange, TX; Recommissioned, 11 May 1951; Decommissioned, 27 April 1954 at Orange, TX; Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull) MSF-255, 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1962; Sold to Mexico, (date unknown); Renamed/redesignated DM-01 (D 1); Renamed/redesignated Riva Palacio (C 50), (date unknown); Sunk off Veracruz, Mexico, August 2001 as an artificial reef.

Specifications: Displacement 530 t.(lt), 795 t.(fl); Length 184' 6"; Beam 33'; Draft 9' 9"; Speed 15 kts; Complement 104; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts, one depth charge thrower (hedgehogs), four depth charge projectiles (K-guns), two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 1,710 shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engines, two shafts.
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Riva Palacio 66k Riva Palacio at Veracruz, Mexico. Stripped and ready to be sunk as an artificial reef. Frank J. Lehnerz
Riva Palacio 100k Riva Palacio at Veracruz, Mexico. Stripped and ready to be sunk as an artificial reef. Frank J. Lehnerz
Riva Palacio 84k Bow of the Riva Palacio as part of reef at Veracruz, Mexico. Frank J. Lehnerz
Riva Palacio 67k View of 3"/50 before sinking. Frank J. Lehnerz
Riva Palacio 78k View of 3"/50 as part of reef. Frank J. Lehnerz

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