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SC-1321



Call sign: November - Tango - Juliet - Oscar



SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 9 September 1942 by Harris and Parsons, Inc., East Greenwich, RI; Launched, 6 February 1943; Commissioned, 4 May 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 22 March 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, spring 1946; Returned to the Maritime Commission, 1948. 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 Gun Mount, 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 diesel engines, 1,440 hp or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" diesel engines; two shafts.
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SC-1321 127k Baxter's Wharf (current site of the Nantucket Steamship Authority ferry), Provencetown, MA Massachusetts Maritime Academy

There is no DANFS History currently available for SC-1321 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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