USS Velocity (AM-128)
USS Velocity in 1942 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Velocity (AM-128) |
| Builder | Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, Chickasaw, Alabama |
| Laid down | 21 July 1941 |
| Launched | 15 April 1942 |
| Commissioned | 4 April 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 7 October 1946 |
| Reclassified | MSF-128, 7 February 1955 |
| Stricken | 1 July 1972 |
| Honours & awards | 5 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold to Mexico, 1 July 1972 |
| Mexico | |
| Name | ARM Ignacio L. Vallarta (C82) |
| Namesake | Ignacio L. Vallarta |
| Acquired | 1 July 1972 |
| Reclassified |
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| Status | in active service, as of 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Auk-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 890 long tons (904 t) |
| Length | 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement | 100 officers and enlisted |
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USS Velocity (AM-128) was an Auk-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. She was the second warship to bear the name.
Velocity was laid down on 21 July 1941 at Chickasaw, Alabama, by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 15 April 1942; sponsored by Mrs. K. B. Hover, the wife of the shipbuilder's destroyer hull foreman; and commissioned on 4 April 1943.