Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.

NavSource Online:
Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

SC-745



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Mike - Nan

ex-PC-745


SC-745 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 7 March 1942 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, MA
  • Launched 15 June 1942
  • Commissioned USS PC-745, 6 August 1942
  • Reclassified SC-745 in April 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register 26 February 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission 9 February 1948 and transferred to the Philippines
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 95 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 21 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, one/two twin .50 cal. machine guns, 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 800bhp 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-648 130k In drydock astern of SC-648
    Courtesy of T. R. Treadwell
    Splinter Fleet website    		 Robert Hurst
    SC-648 219k c. 1944
    Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
    In drydock astern of SC-648
    Courtesy of T. R. Treadwell
    Splinter Fleet website
    SC-745 55k c. 1944
    Hollandia, New Guinea    		 T. R. Treadwell
    Splinter Fleet website
    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-745
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
    "Subchaser in the South Pacific"
    by J. Henry Doscher, CAPT, USN, Ret.
    Back To The Main Photo Index Back To the Patrol Craft/Gunboat/Submarine Chaser Ship Index Back to the 110' Submarine Chaser (SC) Photo Index
    Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster
    This page created by Gary P. Priolo and maintained by Tom Bateman
    All pages copyright NavSource Naval History