USS SC-1329

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US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
Laid down10 October 1942
Launched19 April 1943
Commissioned8 May 1943
FateTransferred to Coast Guard, 7 February 1946, sold commercial and sunk 1979
General characteristics
Displacement98 tons
Length110 ft 10 in (33.78 m)
Beam17 ft 11 in (5.46 m)
Draught6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Propulsiontwo General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts
Speed21 kts
Complement27
Armamentone single 40 mm Bofor gun mount forward, three Oerlikon 20 mm guns aft, two dcp "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles

USS SC-1329 was an SC-497-class submarine chaser in the United States Navy. [1]

SC-1329 was laid down 10 October 1942, by Simms Brothers, Dorchester, Massachusetts, and was launched 19 April 1943. The ship was commissioned 8 May 1943.

USS SC-1329 served in the English Channel and was based in Portsmouth, England. She participated in the June 1944 Normandy landings.

The ship returned to Miami in JuneJuly 1945 to prepare for assignment to war in the Pacific. She was transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 7 February 1946. The ship was sold to a business in Brooklyn, NY and became a day fishing boat named the F/V Elmar. It was resold and relocated to Florida. It finally was sunk in 1979 in the St. Johns River in Florida.

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References

  1. "USCGC Air Scoter (WAVR 482) ex-USS SC-1329". NavSource. NavSource. Retrieved 30 June 2020.