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USCGC Air Puffin (WAVR 454)
ex-USS SC-1027

Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Baker - King

ex-USS PC-1027

SC-1027 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 7 September 1942 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, NJ

Launched 26 January 1943

Commissioned USS PC-1027, 2 February 1943

Reclassified SC-1027 in April 1943

Damaged off Iwo Jima 24 February 1945

Transferred to the Coast Guard 10 December 1945 and commissioned USCGC Air Puffin (WAVR 454)

Struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946

Sold 24 September 1947

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 105 t.

Length 110' 10"

Beam 17'

Draft 6' 6"

Speed 21 kts.

Complement 28

Armament: One 40mm gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y Guns" and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.

Size	Image Description	Source
160k	In dry dock	Levi Ballard
132k
113k
137k
119k
136k	Manning the starboard 20mm mount
159k	Manning the 40mm mount
182k	Moored inboard of an unidentified SC
126k	Moored outboard of SC-1032