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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 155k Vigor c. 1960 USS Vigor Web site
Guadiana 68k Guadiana at Barcelona, Spain. c. February 1986. Ignacio López
Guadiana 67k Guadiana at Mahón, Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain. 12 August 1988. Ignacio López
Guadiana 73k Guadiana outboard of the Spanish corvette Infanta Cristina (F 34) at Cádiz, Spain, 22 March 1998. Daniel Ferro

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