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SC-1468

Call sign:
November - Charlie - Quebec - Echo
SC-1466 Class (Canadian Fairmile Class) Submarine Chaser: Laid down 28 November 1941 as HM ML-394 by the Leblanc Shipbuilding Co., Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; Launched 10 July 1942; Reclassified as Submarine Chaser, SC-1468, (date unknown); Commissioned USS SC-1468, 22 October 1942 at Weymouth, Nova Scotia; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Disposed of 21 January 1948.
Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 99 t.; Length 111' 6"; Beam 17' 9"; Draft 5' 6"; Speed 15 kts.; Complement 28; Armament two 2-pounders, two .30 cal. machine guns, one depth charge projectile (Y-gun), and two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two 630hp Hall-Scott gasoline engines, two shafts.
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Picture prior to being turned over to the U.S. Navy are HM ML-394 (SC-1468), HM ML-395 (SC-1469), HM ML-396 (SC-1470) and HM ML-397 (SC-1471) at Weymouth, Nova Scotia. |
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There is no DANFS history currently available for SC-1468.
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