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SC-1498



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Quebec - Kilo


PC-1498 served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 14 August 1943 by the Thomas Knutson Shipbuilding Corp., Halesite, Long Island, NY; Launched 21 March 1944; Commissioned SC-1498, 15 May 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Soviet Union 24 June 1944 and reclassified BO-222. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 99 t; Length 111' 6"; Beam 17' 9"; Draft 5' 3"; Speed 15 kts.; Complement 28; Armament one one single 40mm gun mount, three 20mm mounts, 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 Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two diesel engines, two shafts.


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