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USCGC Air Tanager (WAVR 472)
ex-USS SC-1347



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Mike - King

ex-PC-1347


SC-1347 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 15 February 1943 as PC-1347 by the Fisher Boat Works, Inc., Detroit, MI
  • Reclassified SC-1347 in April 1943
  • Launched 15 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS SC-1347, 3 September 1943 under the command of LTJG Davis Weinert Gregg, USNR
  • Decommissioned 1 November 1945
  • Transferred to the Coast Guard 21 November 1945 and commissioned USCGC Air Tanager (WAVR 472)
  • Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946
  • Sold 13 February 1948
  • Acquired in 1949 by Cloes Investment Co., Inc. of Seattle, WA for use as a fishing boat and renamed Tanager
  • Acquired in 1965 by Robert F. Cloes of Seattle and renamed Reganaut
  • Still in service in 1988
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 99 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 21 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y Guns," and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.
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    SC-1347 295k Photo from the collection of crewmember Walter E. Carlson, who is fourth from the right on the main deck Randall Rothe
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-1347
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