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SC-702



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Able - Victor

ex-PC-702

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 2 May 1942 by the Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Co., Leesburg, NJ
  • Launched 10 October 1942
  • Commissioned PC-702, 21 December 1942
  • Reclassified SC-702 in April 1943Decommissioned 28 December 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 16 December 1946
  • Acquired in 1948 by Charles D. Pilling of Seattle, WA for use as a fishing boat and named Ruth Ann
  • Acquired in 1954 by the S. E. Alaska Marine Transport Co. of Seattle
  • Acquired in 1958 by Wlliam C. Schlothan of Ketchikan, AK
  • Foundered 22 October 1959 off Wornosky Island, AK.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 148 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 15.6 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y Guns," and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    Commanding Officers
    01LT Russ M. Bradley, USNR 21 December 1942
    02LTJG C. O. Robinson, USNR1945
    Courtesy of Joe Radigan
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