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SC-700

Sunk 10 March 1944

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 24 March 1942 by the Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Co., Leesburg, NJ; Launched 7 September 1942; Commissioned 3 November 1942; Sunk by accidental fire off Vella Lavella, Soloman Islands 10 March 1944.

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 1,540 or 880 hp General Motors diesel engines, two shafts.


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SC-497 161k Exploded view of SC-497 class Subchaser. © 1997 Theodore R. Treadwell

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Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II
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