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SC-1059



Call sign:
November - Delta - November - Oscar

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 20 April 1942 by Inland Waterways Inc., Duluth, MI; Launched 28 November 1942; Commissioned 27 March 1943; Grounded off the Bahama Islands 12 December 1944; Salvaged and repaired; Transferred to the Maritime Commission 14 May 1946. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 95 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 27; Armament one 3"/50 or one single 40mm mount, one or two twin mount .50 cal. machine guns, 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 diesel engines or two General Motors 16-184A diesel "pancake" engines, two shafts.


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