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SC / SCC-727



Call sign:
November - Xray - Hotel - Delta



SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 7 May 1942 by the Harbor Boat Building Co., Terminal Island, CA; Launched, 7 September 1942; Commissioned USS SC-727, 9 February 1943; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser SCC-727, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, May 1947; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). 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, 1440 hp or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500 nm @ 12 kts.
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SC-727 44k Buckner Bay, Okinawa
10 October 1945
SC-727 aground.
Photo courtesy National Archives via
T. R. Treadwell. Splinter Fleet web site
SC-727 52k Buckner Bay, Okinawa
10 October 1945
High and dry.
Norm Wilson, MoMM1c

There is no DANFS history available for SC-727 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 CAPT J. Henry Doscher, USN, Ret.
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