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SC-1024
Sunk 2 March 1943
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 29 June 1943 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, NJ; Launched 28 November 1942; Commissioned
SC-1024, 3 December 1942; Collided with USS Plymouth (PG 57) and SS Cities Service Fuel and sank with all hands, off the North Carolina coast, 2
March 1943.
Specifications: Displacement 95 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 single 40mm 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 MK20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines or two General Motors 16-184A diesel "pancake" engines, two shafts.
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Lost with All Hands
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Robert P. Sables, LTC, AUS, Ret.
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