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Submarine Chaser Photo Archive

SCC-1474
ex-SC-1474

Call sign:
Nan - Uncle - Jig - Easy

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:

Laid down 3 June 1943 by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard Inc., Quincy, MA

Launched 11 January 1944

Commissioned USS SC-1474, 8 April 1944

Reclassified as a Control Submarine Chaser SCC-1474, 20 August 1945

Struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946

Sold 14 February 1947

Fate unknown.

Specifications:

Displacement 105 t.

Length 110' 10"

Beam 17'

Draft 6' 6"

Speed 21 kts.

Complement 28

Armament: One Mk 3 - 40mm gun mount, three Mk 10 - 20mm mounts, one/two twin mount .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks

two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles

Propulsion: Two 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines, two shafts.

Click on thumbnail for full size image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS SC-1474
	27k	Model of SC-1474
	315k	Deck plan/sheer elevation and Internal profile for SC-1474 Drawings from "Allied Coastal Forces of World War II: Vol. 1" by John Lambert and Al Ross	Robert Hurst
	114k
	116k
	120k	18 April 1944 Boston Navy Yard U.S. Navy photos 2215-44, 2216-44 and 2217-44 National Archives photo	Dan Treadwell
	170k
	222k
USS SCC-1474
	195k	9 October 1945 Photo caption: "During the 140 mile [per hour] typhoon over Okinawa in the Ryukyus great damage was done to shipping. This U.S. Navy subchaser was tossed up on the beach." National Archives photo	Dan Treadwell