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SC-1331



Call sign:
November - Tango - Kilo - Oscar


SC-1331 served the Navies of the United States and France.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 16 December 1942 by the Simms Brothers, Dorchester. MA; Launched 2 June 1943; Commissioned SC-1331,
2 July 1943; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to France as CH-6, 11 April 1944; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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 single 3"/50 or one single 40mm Bofor 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 General Motors 8-268A diesel or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.


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SC-1331 179k c. 1944
Off the coast of North Africa
Crew of the CH-6
David Méchin
SC-1331 114k c. 1944
Off the coast of North Africa
Crew of the CH-6
David Méchin
SC-1331 121k c. 1944
Off the coast of North Africa
Crew of the CH-6
My grandfather, "quartier-maître de deuxième classe" (Corporal) Jean Méchin, second from the left, in the second rank behind the bofor gun.
David Méchin

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1331
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