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SC-723



Call sign: November - Xray - Golf - Foxtrot



SC-723 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of China.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 6 March 1942 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA; Launched, 10 June 1942; Commissioned USS SC-723, 7 December 1942; Decommissioned, 13 February 1946 at Subic Bay, Philippines; Struck from the Naval Register, 20 March 1946; Transferred to the Republic of China, 30 June 1948; Sunk by a typhoon, 27 August 1948 while being towed from the Philippines to Taiwan by the Yung Ming, ex-Phantom (AM 273).

Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement three officers 24 enlisted; Armament one Single 3"/50 or one single 40mm Bofor Gun Mount, one or two twin mount .50 cal. machine gun(s), two or three dcp "K Guns", 14 Depth Charges with six single release chocks, two sets MK20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, 1,440 hp or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" diesel engines; two shafts.
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SC-723 55k Somewhere in the Philippines.
Photo by Lt Glenn Wiley McMaster
Paul L. Yates
SC-723 42k c. March 1945. In dry dock with LST-286 at Challenger Cove, Humbolt Bay, New Guinea. Paul L. Yates
SC-723 83k c. 1946. Being stripped in the Philippines after decommissioning.
Photo by Lt Glenn Wiley McMaster
Paul L. Yates

There is no DANFS History currently available for SC-723 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II

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