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SC-1345



Call sign:
November - Tango - Mike - Hotel


SC-1346 served the Navies of the United States and France.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 22 January 1943 by Rice Brothers, Rockport, TX; Launched 29 April 1943; Commissioned SC-1346, 25 October 1943; Decommissioned (date unknown); Transferred to France as CH-72, 18 January 1944; 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 27; Armament one single 3"/50 or one single 40mm Bofor 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 General Motors 8-268A diesel or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.


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