MV Cape Pine

MV Cape Pine

A SC-497-class submarine chaser of the same type as USS SC-715
History
United States
Name	USS SC-715
Builder	Fisher Boat Works, Detroit, Michigan
Laid down	14 May 1942
Launched	23 October 1942
Commissioned	4 December 1942
Out of service	Transferred to US Coastguard on 9 January 1946
United States
Name	USCGC Air Killdeer (WAVR 433)
In service	9 January 1946
Out of service	Sold into mercantile service on 19 January 1948
Renamed	Cape Pine on 14 May 1951
Identification	IMO number: 5061750 MMSI number: 5061750
Status	In private service
General characteristics
Class and type	SC-497-class submarine chaser
Displacement	95 tons
Length	110 ft 10 in (33.78 m)
Beam	17 ft (5.2 m)
Draught	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Propulsion	Two 1,540hp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines Two shafts As Cape Pine: one 320bhp diesel engine and one shaft
Speed	21 kts 8 kts as Cape Pine
Complement	28
Armament	1 × single Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun mount forward 1/2 x twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1/2 x dcp "K Guns" 14 depth charges with six single release chocks two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles

MV Cape Pine^[1] is a charter boat operated by the Maritime Heritage Society of Vancouver. She began life as USS SC-715, a SC-497-class submarine chaser of the United States Navy. She was later transferred to the United States Coast Guard and served under the name USCGC Air Killdeer (WAVR 433). Finally sold into mercantile service, as the Cape Pine, she worked as a high-endurance fish packer in the fisheries of the Canadian coast, and was then sold to the Maritime Heritage Society of Vancouver.