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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

SC-1372

Call sign:
Nan - Tare - Peter - Dog

ex-PC-1372

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 19 December 1942 as PC-1372 by Fellows and Stewart Inc., Wilmington, CA

Reclassified SC-1372 in April 1943

Launched 8 June 1943

Commissioned USS SC-1372, 1 November 1943

Assigned patrol and escort duty on the west coast before departing for Pearl Harbor in August 1944. From Pearl Harbor she escorted a convoy to Eniwetok and from there picked up another convoy to

Kwajalein and then another for Guam. She spent the remainder of the war in patrol and escort duty among the islands of Guam, Saipan and Tinian. On October 9, 1945 she went aground during typhoon Louise at Okinawa but suffered no damage and was refloated when the tide rose and proceeded under her own power

Disposed of 9 February 1948

Sold in 1949 to the General Construction Co. of Paulbo, WA and named Cairdeas

Sold in 1967 to Patrick and Maureen Dickson of Washington

Sold in 1987 to George Baxter of Orcas Island, WA

Sold in June 2005 to Rod and Pam Stroud of Santa Paula, CA

As of September 2008 she is still moored at Seaview North of Bellingham, WA

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 110 t.

Length 110' 10"

Beam 17'

Draft 6' 6" (fl)

Speed 21 kts.

Complement 28

Armament: One 40mm gun mount forward, three 20-mm mounts port, starboard and aft, one .50 cal. machine gun on the flying bridge, two/three depth charge projector "K Guns", 14 depth charges with

six single release chocks and two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles

Propulsion: Two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
SC-1372
	197k	8 June 1943 Fellows and Stewart, Inc., Terminal Island, CA Crowd gathering for the launching National Archives photo	Dan Treadwell
	205k	8 June 1943 Launching ceremony National Archives photo
	184k	8 June 1943 Fellows and Stewart, Inc., Terminal Island, CA Mrs. Edward Vorhees, Ships Sponsor, preparing to christen the ship Photo by Kent Hitchcock, Marine and Commercial Photographer, Balboa, CA National Archives photo 80-G-381542
	224k	8 June 1943 Fellows and Stewart, Inc., Terminal Island, CA Mrs. Edward Vorhees, Ships Sponsor, christening the ship Photo by Kent Hitchcock, Marine and Commercial Photographer, Balboa, CA National Archives photo
USS SC-1372
	147k	1 April 1944 Floating Dry Dock Training Center Tiburon, CA The tailgate of ARD-18 being lowered for flooding to receive SC-1372, above National Archives photo 80-G-356910	Dan Treadwell
	184k	1 April 1944 Floating Dry Dock Training Center Tiburon, CA On blocks in ARD-18 National Archives photo 80-G-356913	Dan Treadwell
	647k	c. May 1945 Ulithi, Caroline Islands Original Caption: "A tender in Ulithi harbor with a brood of submarine chasers lashed to it for repairs and supplies." Ships identified in photo are Mindanao (ARG 3) [the tender], Reform (AM 286) (just off the bow of Mindanao) and SC-1372 in the center of the brood Photographer: Lt. Gallagher National Archives photo 80-G-408145	National Archives Photo added 20 August 2020
Cairdeas
	80k	Photo courtesy of George Baxter, owner from "Splinter Fleet" by Theordore R. Treadwell	Robert Hurst
	93k	c. April 2008 Bellingham, WA Photo by T.R. Treadwell from "Splinter Fleet" by Theordore R. Treadwell	Robert Hurst
	85k	c. July 2018 Lakebay Marina in Lakebay, WA	Brett Higgins
	205k	c. July 2018 Lakebay Marina in Lakebay, WA	Brett Higgins