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SC-1496

Call sign:
November - Uniform - Quebec - Bravo

PC-1496 served the Navies of the United States and the Soviet Union.
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 5 June 1943 by the Vinyard Boat Building Co., Milford, DE; Launched 1 December 1943; Commissioned
SC-1496, 14 April 1944; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Soviet Union 20 May 1944 and reclassified BO-215. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 99 t; Length 111' 6"; Beam 17' 9"; Draft 5' 3"; Speed 15 kts.; Complement 28; Armament one one single 40mm gun mount, three 20mm mounts, 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 Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two 1,260hp Hall-Scott gasoline engines, two shafts.
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