USS SC-499
USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser. | |
Career (United States of America) | |
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Name: | USS SC-499 |
Operator: |
United States Navy United States Coast Guard |
Builder: | Fisher Boat Works |
Laid down: | 24 February 1941 |
Launched: | 24 October 1941 |
Commissioned: | 18 March 1942 |
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 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines 2 x shafts |
Speed: | 21 knots |
Complement: | 28 |
Armament: | 1 x 40mm gun 2 x .50 caliber machine guns (2x1) 2 x Y guns 2 x ducts |
USS SC-499 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy and later the United States Coast Guard during World War II. She was laid down as SC-499 on 24 February 1941 by the Fisher Boat Works in Detroit, Michigan, and launched on 24 October 1941. She was commissioned as USS SC-499 on 18 March 1942. She was later transferred to the Coast Guard on 20 August 1945. Her exact fate is unknown.
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