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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

USCGC Air Cormorant (WAVR 415)
ex-USS SC-536

Call sign:
Nan - Baker - Fox - William

ex-USS PC-536

SC-536 served the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 29 April 1941 by the Peterson Boat Works, Sturgeon Bay, WI

Launched 5 March 1942

Delivered 23 April 1942 and commissioned USS PC-536

Reclassified SC-536 in April 1943

Transferred to the Coast Guard 19 February 1946 and commissioned USCGC Air Cormorant (WAVR 415)

Struck from the Naval Register 12 March 1946

Sold 9 February 1948

Sold in 1951 to Murray Suthergreen of Seattle, WA and renamed Moonlight Maid

Sold in 1970 to Petersburg Processors of Petersburg, AK

Acquired in 1989 by Craig M. Blau of Cordova, AK for use as a fishing boat

Acquired in 2005 by Varga Fisheries of Bainbridge Island, WA

Acquired in 2006 by Moonlight Maid, LLC of Bainbridge Island

Now owned by Pat and Kelly Warga of Bainbridge Island, Washington

Acquired in 2008 by Nathan R. Tueller of Girdwood, Alaska

While en route to Kodiak, AK Moonlight Maid foundered and sank 20 September 2012 about 55 miles south of Seward, AK in the vicinity of Seal Rocks, Chiswell Islands, Gulf of Alaska at 59° 10.2' N, 149° 30.0' W.

Specifications:

Displacement 95 t.

Length 110' 10"

Beam 17'

Draft 6' 6" (fl)

Speed 21 kts.

Complement 28

Armament: One 40mm gun mount, one/two twin mount .50 cal. machine guns, 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
PC-536
	89k	Under construction	Bob Daly/PC-1181
USS PC-536
	150k	c. 1942 U.S. Navy photo	Lillian E. Stump Lockhart via Victoria Bivens
	124k	c. 1942	Historical Collections of the Great Lakes
Moonlight Maid
	83k	Prince William Sound, AK Photo courtesy of Pat and Kelly Warga, owners from "Splinter Fleet" by Theordore R. Treadwell	Robert Hurst
	240k	Photos courtesy of Pat and Kelly Warga, from "Splinter Fleet" by Theordore R. Treadwell
	166k
	189k	Pat and Robert "Robin" Wood, Jr. (from left) with Robert Wood, Sr. on the back of the Midnight Maid, formerly the sub chaser that Robert Wood, Sr. (now 93) served on as a Signalman in World War II Photo from "The Oreganian" website dated 21 September 2012	Joe Radigan