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SC-502



Call sign: November - Uniform - Kilo - Yankee

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 6 May 1941 by the Seabrook Yacht Corp., Houston, TX; Launched, 31 January 1942; Commissioned USS SC-502, 3 June 1942. She had patrol duties in the Tulagi-Lunga Point and Guadacanal areas as well as the Russell Islands. SC-502 was cited for its part in rescuing the crew of a sinking SC in the Pacific while en route back to Pearl Harbor in late July of 1945. Decommissioned in December 1945 at San Francisco, CA; Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 21 March 1948; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 148 t; Length 110"; Beam 17'; Draft 6' 6"; Speed 21 or 15.6 kts; Complement 28; Armament one single 3"/23 gun mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two dcp "Y Gun," and two dct; Propulsion, two 800 hp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, two shafts.
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SC-497 161k Exploded view of SC-497 class Subchaser. © 1997 Theodore R. Treadwell

There is no DANFS history available for SC-502 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II

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