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SC-741



Call sign:
November - Xray - Lima - Mike

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 1 April 1942 by Julius Petersen, Nyack, NY; Launched 3 August 1942; Commissioned 15 December 1942; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission 2 August 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, (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 27; 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 General Motors 8-268A, 1440hp or two 16-184A "pancake" engines; Endurance 1500nm @ 12kts, two shafts.


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SC-741 59k Making a depth charge run.
Date and place unknown
Gary P. Priolo

There is no DANFS history available for SC-741 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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