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SC / SCC-1349



Call sign:
November - Tango - Mike - Quebec

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser>: Laid down 27 April 1943 by the Fisher Boats Works, Inc., Detroit, MI; Launched 11 September 1943; Commissioned USS SC-1349 12 November 1943; Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser, SCC-1349, 20 August 1945; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Destroyed 21 August 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 27; Armament one 3"/50 or one 40mm 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, two shafts
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LCI(L)-561 89k LCI(G)-561 off Okinawa, April 1945. Close-up of 40mm bow gun and the two forward 20mm guns. Visible off LCI(G)-561's bow are SC-1349 as well as LCI(G)-452. Note the port and starboard rocket launchers are loaded in this photo. Photo by Ens. Mel Zolkover, USS LCI(G)-561

There is no DANFS history available for SC-1349 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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