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SC-504



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Mike - Alpha

ex-PC-504

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 30 January 1941 by the Rice Brothers Corp., East Boothbay, ME; Launched, 14 March 1942; Commissioned USS PC-504, 4 May 1942; Reclassified SC-504; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 30 September 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 148 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17'; Draft 6' 6"; Speed 15.6 kts.; Complement 28; Armament one 40mm gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two dcp "Y Gun," and two dct; Propulsion two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear,
two shafts.

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SC-504 20k Rice Brothers Corporation (East Boothbay, Maine) was founded by his grandfather Henry W. Rice and his brothers William and Frank in 1892. Henry bought out his brothers and ran the yard with his sons, Donald, Baxter (Roberts father) and Carl until 1956. The yard was sold several times afterward and was bought by Washburn & Doughty in 1988. The picture shows the yard from the water front in 1942, the PC-504 (later
SC-504) on the left is ready for launching, the PC-503 (later SC-503) is fitting out and the YMS-12 is dockside fitting out.		 .
There is no DANFS history available for SC-504
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