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SC-531



Call sign:
November - Alpha - Whiskey - India

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 27 March 1941 by the Westergard Boat Works, Inc., Rockport, TX; Launched, 4 September 1941; Commissioned 27 May 1942; Visited Aukland, New Zealand 18 - 27 July 1944; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 27 February 1948. 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 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
There is no DANFS history available for SC-531.
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