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SC-520



Call sign:
Nan - Able - Love - Item

ex-PC-520

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 15 July 1941 by the Vinyard Ship Building Co., Milford, DE
  • Launched 18 April 1942
  • Commissioned PC-520, 31 May 1942 under the command of LTJG William A. Saleebey, USNR
  • Operated in the Pacific between Pearl Harbor and Midway Island in the Hawaiian archipelago
  • Reclassified SC-520 in April 1943
  • Decommissioned 28 NOvember 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 19 December 1945
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 25 September 1947
  • Acquired in 1955 by the National Metal and Steel Corp. of Terminal Island, Los Angeles, CA for use as a fishing boat and named Visitor I
  • Out of documentation in 1960
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 148 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 15.6 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "Y Guns," and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    SC-497 161k Exploded view of SC-497 class Subchaser. © 1997 Theodore R. Treadwell
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