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SC-742



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Love - Sugar

ex-PC-742


SC-742 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 22 April 1942 by Julius Petersen, Nyack, NY
  • Launched 17 August 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-742, 1 January 1943
  • Reclassified SC-742 in April 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register 26 February 1946
  • Transferred to the Philippines in March 1948
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 95 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6" (fl)
  • Speed 15.6 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, one/two twin mount .50 cal. machine gun(s), two/three depth charge projector "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks and two sets Mk20 Mousetrap rails
    with four 7.2 projectiles
  • Propulsion two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-742 68k South Pacific Photo by T. R. Treadwell
    Splinter Fleet website
    SC-742 60k Flag at half mast, after her action at Arawe and Biak
    Photo from "Splinter Fleet" by Theodore R. Treadwell    		 Robert Hurst
    SC-738 104k c. 1946
    Subic Bay, Philippines
    SC-742, SC-743, SC-738 and SC-745 nested at Subic Bay    		 Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-742
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
    "Subchaser in the South Pacific"
    by J. Henry Doscher, CAPT, USN, Ret.
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