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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

USCGC Air Pheasant (WAVR 449)
ex-USS SC-1015

Call sign:
Nan - Charlie - Xray - King

ex-USS PC-1015

SC-1015 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 4 May 1942 by Luders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT

Launched 30 August 1942

Commissioned USS PC-1015, 20 October 1942

Reclassified SC-1015 in April 1943

Transferred to the Coast Guard 11 October 1945 and commissioned USCGC Air Pheasant (WAVR 449)

Struck from the Naval Register 28 November 1945

Sold 14 January 1948 to the Morton Salt Co’s and used in the Bahamas as a mail freighter between Nassau, the capital, and Great Inagua, servicing several other islands like Rum Cay, Long Island and

Crooked and Fortune Islands

Scrapped in 1982.

Specifications:

Displacement 105 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.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS SC-1015
	133k	14 May 1945 Cape May, NJ U-858 at anchor, a Coast Guard HNS-1 Helicopter is overhead with SC-1015 in the background
	602k	14 May 1945 Cape May, NJ Photo take from SC-1015	Ray Damiano
	101k	c. June 1945 Cape May, NJ
	688k	LTJG Parks, CO SC-1015
	332k	Crew photo Ray Damiano, second row, third from left; LTJG Parks, first row center
M/V Air Pheasant
	120k	Photo from Bahamas Handbook and Businessman’s Annual, 1966/1967 pages 36-46, Depuch Publications, Nassau Bahamas 1967	Eric T. Wiberg, JD