Dorchester Illustration no. 2175
During World War II, both the Lawley Shipyard and Simms Brothers constructed sub-chasers for the war effort. PC-1332 came out of the Simms Brothers yard.
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser:
- · Laid down 16 December 1942 as PC-1332 by the Simms Brothers, Dorchester, MA
- · Reclassified SC-1332 in April 1943
- · Launched 17 July 1943
- · Commissioned 6 August 1943
- · Struck from the Naval Register 26 February 1946
- · Transferred to the Maritime Commission 6 July 1948
- · Fate unknown.
Specifications:
- · Displacement 148 t.
- · Length 110′ 10″
- · Beam 17′
- · Draft 6′ 6″
- · Speed 15.6 kts.
- · Complement 28
- · Armament: One 40mm mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector “K Guns,” two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles and two depth charge tracks
- · Propulsion: Two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts.
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