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SC / SCC-686



Call sign: November - Whiskey - Yankee - Juliet



SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 30 November 1942 by the American Cruiser Co., Trenton, MI; Launched, 15 April 1943; Commissioned SC-686, 5 July 1943; Reclassified a Control Submarine Chaser SCC-686, 20 August 1945; Foundered in typhoon Louise, 9 October 1945 on Kudaka Shima at the entrance to Buckner Bay, Okinawa; Destroyed, 20 December 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown).

Specifications: Displacement 85 t; Length 110"; Beam 14' 9"; Max Draft (fl) 5' 8"; Speed 18kts; Armament one single 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns, one dcp "Y Gun"; Complement 26; Propulsion, two General Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.


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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Patrol Craft Sailors Association
Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II

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