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SC-1629


SC-1629 built for The Netherlands.

SC-1627 Class Submarine Chaser: Built under Off Shore Procurement under the terms of the Military Defense Assistance Pact. Built to a Netherlands design, but similar to American SCs in characteristics but different in appearance. Laid down, 24 February 1954 by the Rijkswerf Willemsoord, The Netherlands; Launched, 21 July 1954; Completed, 1 December 1954 and transferred to The Netherlands as Freyr (P 804); Struck in 1986. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 169 t.; Length 119'; Beam 20'; Draft 6.2'; Speed 15.5 kts.; Complement 27; Armament one 40-mm, three 20-mm, one mousetrap, two depth charge racks and two k-guns; Propulsion diesel, two shafts.


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SC-1629 64k Freyr in merchant service. .

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1629 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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