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SC-1297
Air Swallow (WAVR-469)


SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down at Ipswich, Massachusetts 1943; Launched 1943; Commissioned USS SC-1297, October 1943; Decommissioned September 1945 and transferred to the Coast Guard; Commissioned USCGC Air Swallow (WAVR-469), 29 September 1945; Stationed at Morehead City, NC as an air-sea rescue vessel; Decommissioned, 1 March 1946 for lay up at the Coast Guard Yard, Berkley, Portsmouth, VA; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold January 1948 to the Coast Guard, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 3 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, (unarmed as Air Swallow (WAVR-469); Propulsion, Two GM Straight 8 Diesel (8-268-A) 1440hp or Two GM 16 Cyl. 184-A "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500nm @ 12kts
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SC-1297 117k Off Cape Henry VA., 17 April 1944
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There is no DANFS history available for SC-1297 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.
The CG History Page
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