USS SC-499

USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
History
United States of America
Name: USS SC-499
Operator:
Builder: Fisher Boat Works
Laid down: 24 February 1941
Launched: 24 October 1941
Commissioned: 18 March 1942
Fate: Unknown
General characteristics
Class & 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 × 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines
  • 2 × shafts
Speed: 21 knots
Complement: 28
Armament:
  • 1 × 40mm gun
  • 2 × .50 caliber machine guns (2x1)
  • 2 × Y guns
  • 2 × 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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