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USCGC Air Mallard (WAVR 437)
ex-USS SC-772

Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Roger - Xray

ex-PC-772

SC-772 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 23 May 1942 as PC-772 by The Peyton Co., Newport Beach, CA

Launched 7 September 1942

Reclassified and commissioned USS SC-772, 15 April 1943

Decommissioned 7 December 1945m transferred to the Coast Guard and commissioned USCGC Air Mallard (WAVR 437)

Struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946

Sold 19 January 1948 to private owners and renamed M/V Lady Goodiver

Acquired in 1951 by the Vancouver Barge Transportation Co., Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and named Joan Lindsay

Acquired in 1963 by the West Coast Salvage and Contracting Co., Ltd. of Vancouver

Acquired in 1964 by William V. McCartney of Vancouver

Acquired in 1965 by Berven Enterprises, Ltd. of Vancouver and renamed Maplewood

Acquired in 1970 by Blackpoint Investments, Ltd. of West Vancouver, British Columbia

Acquired in 1972 by William T. Mandryk of Vancouver

Acquired in 1973 by Javier E. Ordonez of Vancouver

Acquired in 1991 by William and Verleen Coates of Beaver Lodge, Alberta, Canada and renamed Lady Goodiver

Acquired in 1999 by William B. Coates of Parksville, British Columbia

Acquired in 2003 by Craig Brezden, Sealand Tackle, Ltd. of Nanaimo, British Columbia

After an extensive refit in the spring 2003, she is acting as mothership for Fishing/Kayaking/Diving, Etc. Adventures off the West coast of Vancouver Island

Sold in June 2010 to Steve Harrick of Hillsboro, OR

Currently at Scapoose, OR and being refitted for conversion to a "Bed and Breakfast Inn"

When completed will be renamed Subchaser SC-772

Unexpectedly sunk at its moorage and is 16 ft below the surface in the Multnoma channel of the Willamette river near Scappoose, Oregon. Supposedly, according to divers, a driftwood log put a basketball sized hole in her hull near the water line. She was said to go down in a matter of minutes (Fate updated by John Gillon).

Specifications:

Displacement 95 t.

Length 110'

Beam 17'

Draft 6' 6" (fl)

Speed 21 kts.

Complement 28

Armament: One 40mm gun mount, one/two twin mount .50 cal. machine gun(s), 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
USS SC-772
	40k	As completed in March 1943, mounting a 40 mm and two 20 mm guns, with two depth charge tracks at the stern Replacement photo from the Dictionary of American Fightng Ships	Original photo: W. Moser Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
	109k	27 March 1943 Off Newport Harbor entrance, Newport Beach, CA National Archives photo.	Dan Treadwell
USCGC Air Mallard (WAVR 437)
	1330k	c. 1946 Off San Diego, CA	Jim Flynn
Maplewood
	107k		Joe Radigan
M/V Lady Goodiver
	30k	Photo by David Casper from "Splinter Fleet" by Theordore R. Treadwell	Original photo: D. Casper Replacement photo: Robert Hurst
	97k	Photo courtesy of Bill and Verleen Coates, former owners from "Splinter Fleet" by Theordore R. Treadwell	Robert Hurst
	68k	Spring 2003	Greg Peacock
	231k	c. June 2010 Port Angeles, Washington The Lady Goodiver is on her way to Scappoose, Oregon where she will be refitted and then converted into a "Bed and Breakfast Inn," repainted and renamed Subchaser SC 772 Photo courtesy of David G. Sellars	Mike Green