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SC-737



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - King - Jig

ex-PC-737

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 18 April 1942 as PC-737 by the Liberty Dry Dock Co., Inc., Brooklyn, NY
  • Launched 15 December 1942
  • Reclassified SC-737 in April 1943
  • Commissioned SC-737, 20 May 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register 26 February 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission 13 August 1947
  • 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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