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SC-725



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - George - Sugar

ex-PC-725

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 7 April 1942 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA
  • Launched 23 July 1942
  • Commissioned PC-725, 1 January 1943
  • Reclassified SC-725 in April 1943
  • Decommissioned in December 1945 at San Francisco, CA
  • Struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 16 December 1946
  • Acquired in 1948 by the Atlantic and Pacific Packing Co., Inc. of Astoria, OR for use as a fishing boat and named Miss April
  • Renamed Islander 17 August 1951
  • Acquired in 1954 by Stanley S. Dahl of Seattle, WA
  • Acquired in 1957 by Duncan E. MacAllister of Everett, WA
  • Out of documentation in1986
  • 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-725 121k . MA3 Paul Cummings
    SC-725 113k Enlargement of above photo
    SC-725 176k .
    SC-725 196k Christmas poem
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Donald F. Ulrich, USNR1 January 1943
    02LTJG G. E. Smith, Jr., USNR1945
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