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SC-1473



Call sign:
November - Charlie - Victor - Hotel

SC-1466 Class (Canadian Fairmile Class) Submarine Chaser: Laid down 20 May 1942 as HM ML-399 by the Leblanc Shipbuilding Co., Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; Launched 26 November 1942; Reclassified as Submarine Chaser, SC-1473, (date unknown); Commissioned USS SC-1473, 5 December 1942 at Weymouth, Nova Scotia; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Disposed of 21 March 1948. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 99 t.; Length 111' 6"; Beam 17' 9"; Draft 5' 6"; Speed 15 kts.; Complement 28; Armament two 2-pounders, two .30 cal. machine guns, one depth charge projectile (Y-gun), and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 630hp Hall-Scott gasoline engines, two shafts.


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