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SC-987



Call sign: November - Charlie - Kilo - Whiskey


SC-987 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 15 June 1942 by John E. Matton and Sons Inc., Cohoes, NY; Launched, 10 April 1943; Commissioned USS SC-987, 7 June 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Coast Guard, 11 October 1945 and renamed Air Oriole (CGC 440); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred back to the Navy, (date unknown). Fate 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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Air Oriole 64k Cockspur Island, Savannah, GA. c. October/November 1945. Harry R. Skallerup
Air Oriole 82k Cockspur Island, Savannah, GA. c. October/November 1945. Harry R. Skallerup
SC-987 102k Fernandina, FL, c. January/May 1946. Harry R. Skallerup

There is no DANFS history available for SC-987 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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

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