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SC-453



SC-453 call sign:
November - Echo - Hotel - Quebec

SC-453 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.


SC-453 served the Navies of the United States and the Republic of Haiti Coast Guard.


Experimental Model Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 September 1940 by the Fisher Boat Works, Detroit, MI; Launched, 3 May 1941; Commissioned
SC-453, 12 August 1941. SC-453 was one of three Submarine Chasers built in a design competition. Built as a modern adaptation of the original SC-1 design of World War I. After tests, the SC-453 design became the prototype for the World War II wooden submarine chaser. Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Coast Guard 20 November 1945 and renamed USCGC Air Avocet; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Haitian Coast Guard and renamed 16 Aout 1946 (GC 2); Laid up in poor condition and placed up for sale in 1957. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 100 t; Length 110'; Beam 18'; Draft 6'; Speed 17k; Propulsion two 1,540 hp General Motors Electro-Motive Division 16-184A "Pancake" diesel engines (This was the first PC to have this model diesels installed), two shafts.
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SC-453 157k c. 1940
Wearing hull designation "PC-453"
U.S. Navy photo
Lillian E. Stump Lockhart
via Victoria Bivens
SC-453 66k Wearing hull designation "PC-453" Bob Daly/PC-1181

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