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SC-726



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - George - Zebra

ex-PC-726



Atlantic 110 call sign:
Able - Yoke - Queen - Able
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 8 April 1942 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA
  • Launched 12 August 1942
  • Commissioned PC-726, 18 January 1943
  • Reclassified SC-726 in April 1943
  • Decommissioned in October 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission 8 November 1946
  • Acquired in 1947 by the Atlantic Refining Co. of Philadelphia, PA and named Atlantic 110
  • Acquired in 1952 by the Indian Boat Co. of New Orleans, LA and renamed Apache
  • Scrapped in 1955.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 94 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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    Commanding Officers
    01LT Charles G. Meyer, USNR18 January 1943
    02LTJG D. P. Dyer, USNR1945
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