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Vigor (AM / MSO 473)

Vigor call sign:
November - Juliet - Echo - Whiskey

Vigor served the Navies of the United States and Spain.

Guadiana call sign:
Echo - Bravo - Lima - Papa
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down, 16 June 1952 by the Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wis.; Launched, 23 June 1953; Commissioned USS Vigor (AM-473) at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass, 8 November 1954; Redesignated MSO-473, 7 February 1955; Decommissioned, 4 April 1972; Struck from the Naval Register, 4 April 1972; Final Disposition, sold to Spain, 4 April 1972 under the Security Assistance Program and renamed Guadiana (M-44); Decommissioned and struck from the Spanish Navy List, 1 November 1999 and scrapped.
Specifications: Displacement 630 t.(lt), 755 t.(fl); Length 172'; Beam 35'; Draft 10'; Speed 14 kts; Complement 6 Officers, 74 Enlisted; Armament, as built, one single 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, final configuration, bow gun replaced by one twin 20mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns remain; Propulsion, four Packard ID1700 diesel engines, two shafts, two controllable pitch propellers.
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Vigor c. 1960 |
USS Vigor Web site |
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Guadiana at Barcelona, Spain. c. February 1986. |
Ignacio López |
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Guadiana at Mahón, Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain. 12 August 1988. |
Ignacio López |
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Guadiana outboard of the Spanish corvette Infanta Cristina
(F 34) at Cádiz, Spain, 22
March 1998. |
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