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SC-528
ex-PC-528



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Sugar - Peter
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 24 October 1941 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, NJ
  • Launched 17 February 1942
  • Commissioned PC-528, 12 June 1942
  • Reclassified SC-528 in April 1943
  • Decommissioned 9 January 1946 at Subic Bay, Philippines
  • Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946
  • Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission 26 February 1947
  • 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 "Y Guns," 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-528 86k U.S. Coast Guard photo. U.S. Coast Guard
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-528
    History Addendum:

    SC-528

    She was laid down on 24 October 1941 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, New Jersey. She was launched on 17 February 1942 and commissioned USS SC-528 on 13 June 1942 with her Coast Guard aboard. She was apparently assigned to duty with the Greenland Patrol and was homeported in Boston, Massachusetts. She was at Kungnait on 18 May 1943 and was escorting a convoy on 24 May 1943. She spent June and July of 1943 at Boston undergoing availability. She arrived at Argentia, Newfoundland on 5 August 1943 and St. Johns on 6 August 1943. Then she escorted convoy SG-29 (reported on 17 August 1943). On 23 August 1943 she was involved in "Kingnait Bay Defense." She arrived at Gondrestrom on 3 September 1943 and arrived at Grondal from Sondrestrom "with Shirvan." She remained in Greenland waters through most of early 1944 and was reported at Boston on 14 August 1944. She was transferred to the 7th Fleet and was in Miami, Florida on 31 August 1944 and departed Miami for the Canal Zone on 17 December 1944. She arrived at San Diego, California on 18 January 1945 and departed there for Pearl Harbor 29 January 1945. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 6 February 1945 and departed for Eniwetok on 17 February 1945, arriving there on 8 March 1945. On 25 April 1945 she arrived at Leyte; on 27 June 1945 she arrived at Manila; on 12 August 1945 she was reported to be in Subic Bay; on 2 September 1945 she was at "Aparri (P.I.)"; and on 25 November 1945 she was again in Subic Bay.

    She was reported decommissioned and her Coast Guard crew removed on 9 January 1946. She was transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission and struck from the Naval Register.

    Her commanding officers were (list incomplete): LTJG Rudolph R. Empire (14 - 26 Aug 1944); ENS Harold Meyer (26 Aug 1944 - ?)

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    SC-528's Official Coast Guard History

    GREENLAND PATROL

    On July 28, 1942 the Navy crew on the SC-528 which had been transferred from the Eastern Sea Frontier to Greenland Patrol, was relieved by a Coast Guard crew and on the 30th she departed Boston for Casco Bay where she arrived next day, departing same day with SC-527 and TAHOMA [WPG-80] for Sydney, N. S., escorting four trawlers. On August 5, 1942, she departed Sydney for Greenland escorting 3 vessels with 4 other escorts arriving on the 10th. On the 11th she proceeded to Bluie West Seven and assumed guardship duties off entrance to Kungnat Bay. On August 27th she proceeded to Holstenborg to inspect Portuguese fishing vessels en route to Helfiske Bay, returning to BW No. 8 on the 31st. During September 1942 she was engaged in local escort duty between Greenland stations. She reassumed guardship duties at the junction of Brede and Skov Fjords on October 9, 1942, but was forced to return to BW No. 1 because of heavy waters and ice. On the 21st she want to the assistance of the disabled freighter MARGARET LYKES and escorted her to Marrak Point where she assumed guardship duties, departing for BW No. 1 on the 22nd. During November and December, 1942, the SC-528 was on guardship at the entrance to Arsuk Fjord, being relieved periodically, when she usually escorted incoming vessels to BW No. 7.

    PATROL DUTY

    The SC-528 us on patrol and guardship duty at the entrance to Arsuk Fjord, performing local escort duty in Greenland waters from January 1, 1943, until May 20, 1943, when she departed BW No. 7 in company with SC-527 and three other escorts of a two vessel convoy for Argentia, arriving on the 28th, departing same day for Boston, where she arrived June 1, 1943, for an availability until July 14, 1943. Standing out of Boston on that day the FALCON [ASR-2] collided with the SC-527 on the 15th. The USS PINTO [AT-90] in convoy lost her tow and the SC-528 screened her until it was recovered, mooring at Argentia with
    SC-707 to rendezvous with two other escorts to accompany three vessels to Argentia where she remained until the 31st. After further local escort duty at Argentia the SC-528 stood out on the 5th with three other escorts arriving at St. John's on the 6th and from there escorting convoy SG-29 with 6 other escorts to Kungnat Bay, mooring at BW No. 7 on the 21st. The SC-528 continued on patrol and local escort duty in Greenland waters until the end of 1943.

    The SC-528 remained on patrol duty in Greenland waters until July 25, 1944. During that period she broke ice in the fjords and relieved the SC-527 and
    SC-688 on sound and radar watches on anti-submarine patrol at the entrance of Arsuk Fjord. January 11, 1944 her propeller was damaged by ice varying in thickness to 2 feet in South Entrance, Force Bay and Kungnat Bay. During February 1944 she was engaged in transportation duty between Navy 26 and BW No. 7. On July 25, 1944, she sailed for Argentia in company with COMANCHE [WPG-76], SC-527, and SC-704 and proceeded on to Boston with the latter two and USS KAWEAH [AO-15] where on August 6, 1944, she detached from Task Group 24.8 and was assigned to Commander, Service Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. After availability at the Navy Yard, Chelsea, Mass., until August 27th she was ordered to proceed to Florida with SC-704 but put into Charleston on the 30th for minor repairs, and was there at the end of August 1944. (No further record of the SC-528 in World War II
    is available).

    Taken from: United States Coast Guard. Statistical Division/Historical Section. Public Information Division. Transports and Escorts. V. (2 Vols.) Washington: Public Information Division, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Volume 1, Escorts, Mar 1 1949, p. 172.

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