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SCC-1309
ex-SC-1309



Call sign:
Nan - Tare - How - Yankee

ex-PC-1309

SC-1309 served both the U. S. Navy and the Sea Scouts
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down 7 September 1942 as PC-1309 by the Annapolis Yacht Yard, Inc., Annapolis, MD
  • Launched 26 February 1943
  • Reclassified SC-1309 in April 1943
  • Commissioned USS SC-1309, 3 May 1943
  • Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, SCC-1309, 20 August 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register 8 May 1946
  • Transferred to the Sea Scouts 26 September 1946 and named SSS Grey Ghost
  • 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 "K Guns," two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles 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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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-1309 77k c. June 1948
    Tacoma, WA    		 Sea Scouts BSA Website
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG G. A. Lewis, USNR1945
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SCC-1309
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