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SC-1328



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - King - Fox

ex-PC-1328



Maurine Greer call sign:
Able - Zebra - Dog - Fox
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 9 October 1942 as PC-1328 by the Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Co., Leesburg, NJ
  • Reclassified SC-1328 and launched 21 April 1943
  • Commissioned 30 June 1943
  • Sank 9 October 1945 at Okinawa during Typhoon Louise
  • Refloated 15 October 1945
  • Decommissioned 10 December 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 20 March 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 10 September 1946
  • Acquired in 1947 by Virginia L. Anderson of Juneau, AK for use as a freighter and named Maurine Greer
  • Acquired in 1949 by the Seldovia Bay Packing Co. of Seattle, WA
  • Acquired in 1958 by Whitney and Co. of Seattle
  • Acquired in 1963 by Murray Suthergreen of Seattle for use as a fishing boat
  • Acquired in 1967 by Albert Torsen of Seattle
  • Out of documentation in 1989
  • 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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    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Charles E. Williamson, USNR30 June 1943
    02LT William H. Y. Stevens, USNRJune 1944
    03LTJG J. B. Clapp, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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