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SC-736

Call sign: November - Xray - Kilo - Charlie

SC-736 served the Navies of the United States and the Philippines.
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 11 April 1942 by the Liberty Dry Dock Co., Inc., Brooklyn, NY; Launched, 29 October 1942; Commissioned USS SC-736, 27 February 1943; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Philippines, 2 July 1948 and renamed Mountain Province (P 15); 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 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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c. 1943. Armed with a 3-inch gun and two Mousetrap antisubmarine rocket launchers forward; two 20-mm amidships; and a pair of depth-charge tracks at her stern. |
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There is no DANFS history available for SC-736 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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Splinter Fleet: The Wooden Subchasers of World War II
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