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SC-1308



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - How - Victor

ex-PC-1308

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 28 November 1942 as PC-1308 by the Daytona Beach Boat Works, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • Reclassified SC-1308 in April 1943
  • Launched 15 May 1943
  • Commissioned 4 November 1943
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 1 April 1948
  • 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 "K Guns," two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles 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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