USS SC-521


USS SC-696, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser
Career (United States of America)
Laid down: 5 May 1941
Launched: 1 February 1942
Commissioned: 15 April 1942
Fate: Foundered
General characteristics
Displacement: 148 tons
Length: 110 feet 10 inches
Beam: 17 feet
Height: 10 feet 10 inches
Draft: 6 feet 6 inches
Propulsion: 2 x 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines
1 x Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear
2 x shafts
Speed: 15.6 knots
Complement: 28
Armament: 1 x 40mm gun mount
2 x .50 cal. machine guns
2 x DCP Y guns
2 x DCT

USS SC-521 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 5 May 1941 by the Annapolis Yacht Yard, Inc. in Annapolis, Maryland and launched on 1 February 1942. She was commissioned on 15 April 1942. She foundered on 10 July 1945 off Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands.

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