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Velocity (AM / MSF-128)



Call sign:
November - Bravo - Papa - Mike



Velocity served the Navies of the United States and Mexico.

Auk Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 21 July 1941 at the Gulf Shipping Co., Chickasaw, AL; Launched, 15 April 1942; Commissioned USS Velocity (AM 128), 4 April 1943; Decommissioned, 7 October 1946; Reclassified Fleet Minesweeper (Steel-hulled) (MSF 128), 7 February 1955; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1972 and sold to the Mexican Government; Renamed ARM Ignacio L. Vallarta (G 14); Reclassified P-113, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 890 t.; Length 221' 3"; Beam 32'; Draft 10' 9"; Speed 18 kts; Complement 105; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm gun mounts, two depth charge tracks, five depth charge projectiles; Propulsion 3,572 shp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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Velocity 131k Nested inboard of Threat (AM 124)
and Prevail (AM 107), Shanghai, China.
December 1945.
Dennis E. Wright
Velocity 38k Nested inboard of Threat (AM 124)
and Prevail (AM 107), Shanghai, China.
December 1945.
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
Vallarta 53k Vallarta (P 113)
Mexican Navy Photo
Mexican Navy

Read "USS Velocity The Story of Minesweeper AM-128 and It's Role in World War II," and the ships newsletter "The Breeze"
View the Velocity (AM 128)
DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Naval Minewarfare Association
Association of Minemen
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