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SC-1062
WAVR 462 Air Shrike



SC-1062 call sign:
November - Delta - Kilo - Lima




SC-1062 served the both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 3 June 1942 by Harris and Parsons, Inc., East Greenwich, RI; Launched 23 December 1942; Commissioned USS SC-1062, 27 February 1943; Decommissioned, and transferred to the Coast Guard, October 1945; Commissioned USCGC Air Shrike (WAVR 462), 23 October 1945; Served as an air-sea rescue vessel based at Rockland, ME; Decommissioned April 1947; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold to Coast Guard, March 1948. 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 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, (unarmed as Air Shrike WAVR-462); Propulsion, two 1,440 shp General Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.
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SC-1062 120k East of Cape Cod, MA, 2 August 1944. "Mousetrap" anti-submarine rocket launchers are seen clearly on her foredeck.
US Navy photo # NH 96488 taken by AMM1c Friend from a blimp
of ZP-11
Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1062 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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