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SC-747

Call sign: November - Xray - Mike - Xray

SC-747 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 April 1942 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard Inc., Quincy, MA; Launched, 28 July 1942; Commissioned USS SC-747, 11 September 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Philippines, 2 July 1948 and renamed Surigao (P 17); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Scrapped, (date 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, 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
MK20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion, two General
Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two
shafts.
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