Pacific Eagles Database

Device type Air search
Platform Surface
Nation United States
Designer
Manufacturer
Production
Wavelength
Frequency
Peak power
Pulse rate (PRF)
Antenna
Scope

Images

USS Juneau (CL-52)

USS Juneau (CL-52) at the New York Navy Yard, 19 March 1942. View of bridge area, with arrows marking recent changes. Note "SC" search radar and MK-4 ("FD") fire control radar.

USS Sterett (DD-407)

Forward portion of the ship, photographed from a crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 6 February 1943, at the end of an overhaul. Circles mark recent alterations. Note: SC & SG radar antennas on the foremast; Mk.33 gun director atop the pilothouse; motor whaleboat; planking on the mast and forward superstructure to provide working platforms for shipyard workers. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

USS Lang (DD-399)

Plan view amidships and forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 25 October 1943. Note railway cars with anchor chain and scrap on the wharf; ship's midships details, smokestack and foremast with the antenna for her SC-2 radar at its top. Ph

USS Long Island (AVG-1)

View of the ship's masthead, with SC radar antenna and anemometer, 13 March 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

USS Cowpens (CVL-25)

USS Cowpens (CVL-25) Crewmen on the flight deck, looking aft toward the carrier's island during raids on the Marshall Islands, November-December 1943. Note crane and other features on and around the island. Radar antennas atop the foremast include SC (larger a

USS Belleau Wood (CV-24)

USS Belleau Wood (CV-24)

USS ESSEX (CV-9)

USS ESSEX (CV-9) at Pearl Harbor on 3 August 1943, showing antenna and antenna tower for the SC radar.

USS Kimberly

(DD-521) Plan view amidships, looking forward, while the ship was at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 26 June 1945. Note the cap of her forward smokestack, and the antenna for her SC-2 air search radar atop the foremast. Official U.S. Navy Photograph,

USS Preble

(DM-20) Plan view amidships, looking forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 17 November 1943. White outlines mark recent alterations to the ship, among them installation of 3/50 guns atop her midships superstructure. Note the antenna for a SC