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SC-716

Call sign:
November - Xray - Delta - Victor
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 18 May 1942 by the Fisher Boat Works, Detroit, MI; Launched 20 November 1942; Commissioned 9 January 1943; Grounded at Okinawa during Typhoon Louise 9 October 1945; Refloated 5 November 1945; Sold 23 May 1950. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 27; Armament one 3"/50 or one 40mm
gun mount, one or two twin mount .50 cal. machine guns, two or three dcp "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two 1,440hp General Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" diesel engines, two shafts.
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