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SC / SCC-1066
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 2 June 1942 by Perkins & Vaughn, Wickford, RI; Launched, 17 October 1942; Commissioned USS SC-1066, 30 December 1942; Converted to a Beach Control Craft SCC-1066, (date unknown); Decommissioned (date unknown); 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 Gun Mount, one or two twin mount .50 cal. machine gun(s), two or three dcp "K Guns", 14 Depth Charges with 6 single release chocks, two sets MK20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A, or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500nm @ 12kts.
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There is no DANFS history available for SC-1066 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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