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USS SC 694

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Name
  
USS SC-694

Commissioned
  
9 September 1942

Launched
  
25 May 1942

Weight
  
150.4 tons

Laid down
  
21 March 1942

Construction started
  
21 March 1942

Length
  
34 m

Displacement
  
134,300 kg

USS SC-694

Builder
  
Daytona Beach Boat Works, Inc.

Fate
  
Bombed off the coast of Palermo, Sicily, on 23 August 1943.

Class and type
  
SC-497 class submarine chaser

USS SC-694 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 21 March 1942 by the Daytona Beach Boat Works in Daytona Beach, Florida, and launched on 25 May 1942. She was commissioned on 9 September 1942. She was bombed and sunk by German Ju-88 dive bombers off the coast of Palermo, Sicily, on 23 August 1943.

References

USS SC-694 Wikipedia