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USCGC Air Grebe (WAVR 426)
ex-USS SC-670



Call sign:
Nan - William - Uncle - William

ex-USS PC-670


SC-670 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 17 November 1941 by the Inland Waterways, Inc., Duluth, MN
  • Launched 6 July 1942
  • Delivered 2 September 1942 and commissioned USS PC-670
  • Reclassified SC-670 in April 1943
  • Decommissioned 19 March 1946, transferred to the Coast Guard and commissioned USCGC Air Grebe (WAVR 426)
  • Struck from the Naval Register 28 March 1946
  • Sold 19 January 1948 to Arthur V. Nelson of Seattle, WA for use as a fishing boat and renamed Grebe
  • Acquired in 1949 by Trygve A. Roth of Seattle
  • Acquired in 1951 by William M. Everitt of Seattle
  • Acquired in 1980 by Ted Morehouse of Cordova, AK for use as a freighter
  • Acquired in 1989 by Francis O. Samuelson of Cordova
  • Out of documentation in 2000
  • Fate unknown.

    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.
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    Commanding Officers
    01LT Richard S. Paret, USNR2 September 1942
    02LTJG Wayne E. Bowman, USNRJanuary 1944
    03LTJG R. C. Crary, USNR1945
    Courtesy of Joe Radigan
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