USS SC-1329

USS SC-1329

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

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

USS SC-1329 served in the English Channel and was based in Portsmouth, England. She participated in the June 1944 Normandy landings. Lt. Robert Cotton was the ship's commander and Lt. junior grade William Graham was the executive officer.

The ship returned to Miami in June-July 1945 to prepare for assignment to war in the Pacific. She was transferred to the United States Coast Guard on February 7, 1946. It 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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