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SCC-1281
ex-SC-1281



Call sign:
November - Golf - Sierra - Quebec

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, (date unknown) by the Elizabeth City Shipyards, Elizabeth City, NC; Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned USS SC-1281, 3 May 1943; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, SCC-1281, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commision 6 December 1946; 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 27; 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 dharges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two General Motors 8-268A diesel engines or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines,
two shafts.


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SC-1281/PCS-1402 94k c. September 1945 D-Day, Okinawa, Hagushi Harbor, western side. SC-1281, steaming between an unidentified LST and PCS-1402. Original photo by Bill Kinney SC-1281 via E. J. Comeau PC552/1228.
Replacement photo by Ed Henke.

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1281
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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