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SC-1488



Call sign:
November - Uniform - Papa - Juliet


PC-1488 served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 10 July 1943 by the Elizabeth City Shipyard, Elizabeth City, NC; Launched 24 August 1943; Commissioned
SC-1488, 6 April 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Soviet Union 19 May 1944 and reclassified BO-216. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 99 t; Length 111' 6"; Beam 17' 9"; Draft 5' 3"; Speed 15 kts.; Complement 28; Armament one one single 40mm gun mount, three 20mm mounts, one or two twin mount .50-cal machine gun(s), two or three dcp "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two 1,260hp Hall-Scott gasoline engines, two shafts.


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