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SC-1022
WAVR-452 Air Piper



SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 1943 by Lauders Marine Construction Co., Stamford, CT; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS SC-1022, June 1943; Decommissioned, and transferred to the Coast Guard, October 1945; Commissioned USCGC Air Piper (WAVR 452); Decommissioned and sold in September 1947; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 95 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 3 Officers 24 Enlisted; Armament one Single 3"/50 or one Single 40mm Bofor Gun 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, all armament removed when transferred to Coast Guard; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, 1440 hp or two General Motors 16-184A diesel "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500 nm @ 12 kts.


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SC-1022 118k Underway, 4 September 1944 off Cape Cod, MA.
US Navy photo NH 96486.
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1022 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 J. Henry Doscher, CAPT, USN, Ret.
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