USS SC-500


USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
Career (United States of America)
Name: USS SC-500
Operator:  United States Navy
Builder: Fisher Boat Works
Laid down: 27 February 1942
Launched: 11 October 1942
Commissioned: 31 March 1942
Fate: Transferred to the Soviet Union on 9 June 1945.
Career (Soviet Union)
Name: BO-319
Operator:  Soviet Navy
Fate: Unknown
General characteristics
Class and type: SC-497 class submarine chaser
Type: submarine chaser
Displacement: 148 tons
Length: 110 ft 10 in (34 m)
Beam: 17 ft (5 m)
Draft: 6 ft 6 in (2 m)
Propulsion: 2 x 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear
2 x shafts
Speed: 15.6 knots
Complement: 28
Armament: 1 x 40mm gun mount gun mount
2 x .50 caliber machine guns
2 x Y guns
2 x ducts

USS SC-500 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy and later the Soviet Navy during World War II. She was laid down as SC-500 on 27 February 1942 by the Fisher Boat Works in Detroit, Michigan, and launched on 11 October 1942. She was commissioned as USS SC-500 on 31 March 1942. She was transferred to the Soviet Navy as part of the Lend-Lease program on 9 June 1945 as BO-319. Her exact fate is unknown.

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