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SC-643



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Quebec - Lima



SC-643 served the Navies of the United States and the USSR.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 21 November 1941 by the Peterson Boat Works, Sturgeon Bay, Wisc; Launched, 10 June 1942; Commissioned USS SC-643, 18 August 1942; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to the USSR, 17 August 1945; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, 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 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 or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" diesel engines, two shafts.
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SC-643 110k - E. J. Comeau
PC 553/1228

There is no DANFS history available for SC-643 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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