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SC-1318



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Item - Xray

ex-PC-1318



Atlantic 115 call sign (1948):
Able - Yoke - Queen - Fox


SC-1318 served the Navies of the United States and the Indonesia
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 8 September 1942 as PC-1318 by Julius Petersen, Nyack, NY
  • Reclassified SC-1318 and launched 2 April 1943
  • Commissioned USS SC-1318, 10 August 1943
  • Visited Auckland, New Zealand 7 - 18 December 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 December 1945
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 10 November 1946
  • Registered in 1948 to the Atlantic Refining Co. of Philadelphia, PA as the miscellaneous vessel Atlantic 115
  • Acquired in 1959 by the Indonesian Marine Police and named Bhayamkara 1
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 148 t.
    1948 - 120 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
    1948 - 107.2'
  • Beam 17'
    1948 - 17.9'
  • Draft 6' 6"
    1948 - 9.4'
  • Speed 15.6 kts.
  • Complement 28
    - 1948 - Nine
  • 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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    SC-1318 58k c. 1959Bhayamkara 1 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LT J. A. Albertson, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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