USS Jubilant

History
United States
Name	USS Jubilant (AM-255)
Builder	American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio
Laid down	22 October 1942
Launched	20 February 1943
Sponsored by	Mrs. C. D. Bishop
Commissioned	27 August 1943
Decommissioned	18 May 1946
Recommissioned	11 May 1951
Decommissioned	27 April 1954
Reclassified	MSF-255, 7 February 1955
Stricken	1 May 1962
Fate	Transferred to Mexican Navy, 1 October 1962
History
Mexico
Name	ARM DM-01
Acquired	1 October 1962
Renamed	ARM General Vicente Riva Palacio (C50), 1994
Namesake	Miguel Negrete
Stricken	2000
Fate	Sunk as artificial reef, August 2001
General characteristics
Class and type	Admirable-class minesweeper
Displacement	650 long tons (660 t)
Length	184 ft 6 in (56.24 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	9 ft 9 in (2.97 m)
Propulsion	2 × ALCO 539 kW); Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear; 2 shafts;
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	104
Armament	1 × DP gun; 2 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns; 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar; 2 × Depth charge tracks;
Service record
Part of:	U.S. Atlantic Fleet (1943–1946, 1951–1954); Atlantic Reserve Fleet (1946–1951, 1954–1962); Mexican Navy (1962-2000);

USS Jubilant (AM-255) was an

Veracruz

in August 2001.

U.S. Navy career

Jubilant was launched 20 February 1943 by

Little Creek, Virginia. While sailing along the Atlantic coast, she made a submarine contact, 23 October and launched a depth charge and hedgehog attack which resulted in a probable hit. Arriving Little Creek the 23d, she commenced 4 months of minesweeping and escort training, then departed 1 March 1944 for convoy

escort duty in the South Atlantic.

She arrived

Bahia, Brazil

before returning to Trinidad 30 May Jubilant made several escort voyages between Trinidad and Brazilian ports and engaged in coastal minesweeping operations before departing Trinidad 23 March 1945 for the United States.

Reaching

Atlantic Reserve Fleet

.

In order to bolster the fleet during the Korean War, Jubilant recommissioned 11 May 1951. Departing 24 May, she steamed to Charleston, South Carolina, to join Mine Squadron 8, Atlantic Fleet, 29 May For more than 2 years Jubilant operated out of Charleston along the Atlantic coast up to the Chesapeake Bay.

She cleared Charleston 19 February 1954 and returned to Orange the 28th. Jubilant decommissioned 27 April and entered the

Navy List

1 May 1962 and sold to Mexico on 1 October 1962.

Mexican Navy career

The former Jubilant was acquired by the Mexican Navy on 1 October 1962 and renamed ARM DM-01. In 1994, she was renamed ARM Riva Palacio (C50) after General Vicente Riva Palacio. She was stricken in 2000,^[1] and sunk as an artificial reef off the Anegada Reef and Isla Verde in Veracruz in August 2001 in 28 meters depth of water, and is a recreational dive site.^[2]

Notes

^
OCLC 140283156
.

^ "Directory of 14 Dive Sites or Spots for Scuba Diving in Gulf of Mexico, Mexico". diveadvisor.com. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

Photo gallery of Jubilant at NavSource Naval History

[Wertheim-1] 
OCLC 140283156
.

[2] "Directory of 14 Dive Sites or Spots for Scuba Diving in Gulf of Mexico, Mexico". diveadvisor.com. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 2001
Shipwrecks	16 Jan: Jessica 30 Jan: USS Barbel 31 Jan: USS John Paul Jones 9 Feb: Ehime Maru 14 Feb: USS Lynde McCormick 31 May: USS Reeves June (unknown date): USS Miller 10 July USS La Moure County 26 Jul: Sun 11 11 Aug: Windoc August (unknown date): ARM Riva Palacio 12 Sep: Themistoklis 13 Oct: ROCS Yuen Yang 16 Oct: USS Guam 19 Oct: SIEV X 20 Oct: HMCS Cape Breton 23 Oct: J. W. Westcott II 1 Nov: ROCS Chin Yang 24 Nov: HMAS Perth
Other incidents	9 Feb: USS Greeneville 27 Mar: CMA CGM Normandie
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