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Victor II (AMc-109)

1942-1945

The first Victor retained the name she carried when acquired; the second was given a general word classification name.

II

(AMc-109: displacement 190; length 98'5"; beam 23'6"; dr.aft 10'6" (mean); speed 10 knots; complement 17; armament 2 .50-caliber machine guns, 2 .30-caliber machine guns; class Accentor)

The second Victor (AMc-109), a wooden-hulled, coastal minesweeper, was laid down on 14 July 1941 at Rockland, Maine, by the Snow Shipyard, Inc.; launched on 6 December 1941; sponsored by Miss Virinia Hanson; and placed in service at the Boston Navy Yard on 17 April 1942, Ens. Charles A. Hardy, Jr., D-V(S) USNR, officer-in-charge.

Following training at the Mine Warefare School, Yorktown, Va., Victor operated locally in the Tidewater region for nearly one year before shifting to the Third Naval District in March 1943 for local operations. After the end of the war with Germany, she moved to Charleston, S.C., in June of 1945 for mine clearance operations. Victor worked locally in the Sixth Naval District until placed out of service there on 31 October 1945.

Simultaneously laid up in reserve in the Wando River, the coastal  minesweeper was declared surplus and authorized for delivery to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 5 November for disposal. Stricken from the Naval Register on 16 November 1945, the erstwhile minecraft was delivered at Charleston by the WSA to her purchaser, Eugene Marino of Gloucester, Mass., on 28 October 1946.

Updated, Robert J. Cressman

22 June 2022

Published: Wed Jun 22 14:32:28 EDT 2022