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SC / SCC-1341


SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser>: Laid down, (date unknown) at Rice Brothers, East Boothbay, Maine; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS SC-1341, 25 Mary 1943 at Rockport, Texas; Served in South Atlantic and Caribbean in anti-submarine warfare, patrol and convoy duty. Converted to a landing craft control ship SCC-1341, November 1944. Served in Central and North Pacific by directing waves of landing craft to the beach. Participated in the liberation of the Philippines. Participated in the landings at Kerama Retto in the Ryukyu Chain, as well as Okinawa on April 1, 1945. Participated in the occupation of Japan. Decommissioned, 1 October 1946 at Lake Union, Washington; Fate unknown.

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 6 single release chocks, two sets MK20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A 1440hp or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500nm @ 12kts.
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SC-1341 73k c. 1 April 1945. Okinawa Invasion. US Navy photo taken from LST-888. John F. Mazzullo Sr.
SC-1341 77k Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen Dick Maes, crewmember SC-1341.
Courtesy John F. Mazzullo Sr.
SC-1341 77k Photo enhanced by Tom Kermen Dick Maes, crewmember SC-1341.
Courtesy John F. Mazzullo Sr.

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1341 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
"Subchaser in the South Pacific"
by J. Henry Doscher, CAPT, USN, Ret.
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