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SC-1320



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Jig - Easy

ex-PC-1320

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 10 October 1942 as PC-1320 by Julius Petersen, Nyack, NY
  • Reclassified SC-1320 in April 1943
  • Launched 17 May 1943
  • Commissioned 24 September 1943
  • Decommissioned 5 December 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 31 December 1946
  • Registered in 1948 to William D. Ray of Kansas City, MO for use as the freighter Golden Spade
  • Out of documentation in 1971
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 148 t.
    1948 - 126 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
    1948 - 105.4'
  • Beam 17'
    1948 - 17.5'
  • Draft 6' 6"
    1948 - 10.8'
  • Speed 15.6 kts.
  • Complement 28
    1948 - Three
  • 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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    Commanding Officers
    01LT Thomas P. Ulmer, USNR24 September 1943
    02LT Gerald P. Callis, USNRJuly 1944
    03LTJG D. C. Fowler, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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