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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

USCGC Air Scoter (WAVR 482)
ex-USS SC-1329

Call sign:
Nan - Tare - King - Item

ex-PC-1329

SC-1329 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 10 October 1942 as PC-1329 by Simms Brothers, Dorchester, MA

Reclassified SC-1329 and launched 19 April 1943

Commissioned USS SC-1329, 8 May 1943

Served in the English Channel based at Portsmouth, England

Participated in the Normandy Invasion 6 June 1944

Participated in the placement of Mulberry A on Omaha Beach at Saint-Laurent sur-Mer during the Normandy Invasion

Returned to Miami in June-July 1945 to prepare for assignment to the Pacific

Decommissioned 18 October 1945

Transferred to the Coast Guard 7 February 1946 and commissioned USCGC Air Scoter (WAVR 482)

Struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946

Sold 19 January 1948 to Frank J. Rau of Brooklyn, NY for use as a fishing boat and renamed Elmar

Acquired in 1961 by Vixen Fishing Enterprises, Inc. of Brooklyn

Acquired in 1970 by the A. J. Armstrong Co., Inc. of New York, NY

Acquired in 1972 by the Cloud Nine Corp. of Louisville, KY

Foundered 7 December 1979 about 12 miles off the St. Johns River, Florida.

Specifications:

Displacement 94 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
SC-1329
	154k	SC-1329 and SC-1330 just before launching	Harold G. Simms
	144k	SC-1329 and SC-1330 just before launching	Harold G. Simms
USS SC-1329
	474k	c. 1944 National Archives photo	Joe Radigan
	68k	c. April 1945 Somewhere in England Photo of bow and unidentified officer taken from the bridge Photo by Lt(jg) William Graham	LTJG Graham's son, Bill Graham
	65k	VE Day [8 May 1945] Portsmouth, England The officers of SC-1329. LTJG Graham is on the right From the collection of Lt(jg) William Graham	LTJG Graham's son, Bill Graham
F/V Elmar
	97k	c. 1949 Elmar	Mel's Place
	78k	c. 1949 Elmar
	87k	c. 1963 Elmar