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SC-669



Call sign:
November - Whiskey - Uniform - Quebec

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 17 November 1941 by the Daytona Beach Boat Works Inc., Daytona Beach, FL; Launched, 21 March 1942; Commissioned 24 July 1942; Decommissioned, November 1945; Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 26 March 1947. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 3 Officers 24 Enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 or one single 40mm Bofor gun mount, one or two twin mount .50 cal. machine guns, two or three dcp "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two 1,440hp General Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" diesel engines; Endurance 1500nm @ 12kts.


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SC-669 60k Launching 21 March 1942.
Ships sponser was Mrs. M. L. Chadwick (Photo sources Grandmother).
Matt Himes
SC-669 91k Moored to pier with SC-508 outboard Charleston Navy Yard, 10 August 1942. In background, at left, is the small steamer Mary Queen of Augusta, GA.
US Navy photo # NH 96482
US Naval Historical Center

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