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SC-744



Call sign:
Nan - Xray - Mike - Fox

ex-PC-744

Sunk 27 November 1944
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 18 February 1942 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard Inc., Quincy, MA
  • Launched 23 May 1942
  • Commissioned PC-744, 10 July 1942
  • Reclassified SC-744 in April 1943
  • Sunk 27 November 1944 by Kamikaze attack in Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands
  • Struck from the Navy list 19 January 1945.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 95 t.
  • Length 110' 10"
  • Beam 17'
  • Draft 6' 6"
  • Speed 21 kts.
  • Complement 28
  • Armament: One 40mm mount, one/two twin mount .50 cal. machine guns, two/three depth charge projector "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks and two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles
  • Propulsion: Two 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-744 260k Photo from the collection of John Wagers John Wagers
    SC-744 81k Waiting for assistance after being struck aft by a Japanese A6M Zero, Leyte Gulf, on 27 November 1944
    Photo from "Splinter Fleet" by Theodore R. Treadwell    		 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LT Donald S. Stroetzel, USNRSeptember 1944
    Courtesy Theodore R. Treadwell
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-744
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