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USS SC-632 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 23 February 1942 by the Mathis Yacht Building Co. in Camden, New Jersey and launched on 25 June 1942. She was commissioned on 2 September 1942.
The site today is called the Yacht Yard. [ 2 ] Patrol torpedo boat PT-728 built by Annapolis Yacht Yard is a rare surviving PT boats at the Liberty Aviation Museum . [ 3 ] On 1 April 1941, Annapolis Yacht Yard and Chris Nelson, its president, was give its first contract to build two 110-foot submarine chasers.
USS SC-636 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. It was laid down on 29 August 1941 by the Vineyard Shipbuilding Co. in Milford, Delaware and launched on 14 May 1942. It was commissioned on 11 July 1942. It foundered during Typhoon Louise on 9 October 1945 off the coast of Okinawa.
A Military History of Canada : from Champlain to Kosovo. McClelland & Stewart Limited. ISBN 978-0-7710-6514-9. Norrie, Kenneth, Douglas Owram and J.C. Herbert Emery. (2002) A History of the Canadian Economy (4th ed. 2007) Riendeau, Roger E. (2007). A Brief History of Canada. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-0822-3.
USS SC-307: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound, Washington: 11 May 1918: To Department of War 26 June 1920. [1] [2] USS SC-308: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Puget Sound, Washington: 23 February 1918: Sold 25 September 1922. [1] [2] To Canada 1930 and named Hurry Home Renamed Marauder in 1938.
USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
Transferred to the United States Coast Guard on 9 January 1946, SC-715 was renamed USCGC Air Killdeer. [2] [3] [5] In this capacity she was used in offshore rescue duties.She was one of 70 such vessels transferred to the coastguard to cope with the problem of large numbers of aviation accidents as troops and personnel were returned to the United States after the war, in Operation Magic Carpet. [6]
A US Navy 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser in July 1943. Victory Shipbuilding was the name of two shipbuilding companies that built vessels during World War 2.The first was the Victory Shipbuilding Company, of Holland, Michigan, and the second was the Victory Shipbuilding Corporation, of Newport Beach, California.