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SC-648



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Romeo - Juliet


SC-648 served the Navies of the United States and China.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 10 October 1941 by the Deleware Bay Shipbuilding Co., Leesburg, NJ; Launched 18 April 1942; Commissioned 11 July 1942; Transferred to China 30 June 1948. 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, one or two twin mount .50 cal. machine gun(s), 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 or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.


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SC-648 61k Hollandia New Guinea c. 1944 Photo by T. R. Treadwell
Splinter Fleet web site
SC-749 110k . Alan Ross
SC-648 48k . Photo by T. R. Treadwell
Splinter Fleet web site

There is no DANFS history available for SC-648
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II
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