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SC-705



Call sign: November - Xray - Bravo - November



SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 March 1942 by the Elizabeth City Shipyard, Elizabeth City, NC; Launched, 24 April 1942; Commissioned USS SC-705, 2 October 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 September 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 85 t; Length 110"; Beam 14' 9"; Max Draft (fl) 5' 8"; Speed 18kts; Armament one single 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns, one dcp "Y Gun"; Complement 26; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.
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SC-705 122k Crew of SC-705 preparing to be towed by the USS Davenport (PF 69) from the North Atlantic to Reykjavik, Iceland, 6 August 1945. Vincent A. Grobbel, BM1/c, USCG
via Mike Grobbel

There is no DANFS history available for SC-705 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Not Applicable to this Vessel
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II

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