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AM-107 / AGS-20 Prevail



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, 1963; Struck from the Naval Register, 10 January 1964; Sold for scrap, 13 October 1964 to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York, NY.

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 two 3,532 shp Busch Sulzer Brothers diesel engines, two shafts.
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Prevail 110 23 April 1943
US Navy Photo.
Joseph M. Radigan
Prevail 49k Nested outboard of Threat (AM 124) and Velocity (AM 128). Shanghai, China. December 1945. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
Velocity 131k Nested outboard of Threat (AM 124) and Velocity (AM 128). Shanghai, China. December 1945. Dennis E. Wright
Prevail 93 AGS-20 Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy

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