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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

SCC-1049
ex-SC-1049

Call sign:
Nan - Dog - Item - Oboe

ex-PC-1049

Destroyed 4 December 1945

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 2 May 1942 as PC-1049 by Ventnor Boat Works Inc., West Atlantic City, NJ

Reclassified SC-1049 in April 1943

Launched 2 May 1943

Commissioned SC 1049, 9 June 1943

Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, SCC-1049, 20 August 1945

Grounded 9 October 1945 at Buckner Bay, Okinawa during Typhoon Louise

Destroyed 4 December 1945

Struck from the Naval Register 19 December 1945.

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 "K Guns," and two depth charge tracks

Propulsion: Two 880bhp 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-1049
	330k	1 May 1943 SC-1049 on the slip. Note the waterline exhaust and twin rudders, installed for manoeuvrability Photo from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman	Robert Hurst
	47k	1 May 1943	Robert Hurst
USS SCC-1049
	128k	1 May 1943	Buckner Bay, Okinawa SCC-999 is in the right background National Archives photo	Ted Treadwell
	132k	Buckner Bay, Okinawa National Archives photos
	163k	Buckner Bay, Okinawa National Archives photos