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SC-661


SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down at Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin; Commissioned USS SC-661 October 1942; Decommissioned (date unknown); Loaned to USSR under Lend-Lease May 1945; Renamed BO-303, served until 1954; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Final Disposition, unknown

Specifications: Displacement 98 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 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 GM Straight 8 Diesel (8-268-A) 1440hp or Two GM 16 Cyl. 184-A "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500nm @ 12kts.
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SC-661 85k US Navy photo # (NH85415) -
SC-661 183k 6 October 1942 Manitowoc Wisc.
Photographed by her builder, Burger Boat Co.,
Note sailors with rifles on guard fore and aft.

US Navy photo # (NH96483)
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There is no DANFS history available for SC-661 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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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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