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SC-706



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Baker - Sugar

ex-PC-706



Sugarland call sign:
Able - Oboe - Peter - Zebra
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 14 March 1942 by the Elizabeth City Shipyard, Elizabeth City, NC
  • Launched 26 June 1942
  • Commissioned PC-706, 15 October 1942
  • Reclassified SC-706 in April 1943
  • Decommissioned 24 January 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register 7 February 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 13 September 1946
  • Acquired in 1946 by the Humble Oil and Refining Co. of Houston, TX and named Sugarland
  • Acquired 23 November 1959 by Marine Acoustical Services, Inc. of Miami, FL
  • Renamed Lord Kelvin 24 November 1959
  • Acquired in 1963 by a Bahamian owner and operated under the British flag
  • Fate unknown.

    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 Arnold E. Haire, USNR16 October 1942
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-706
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