USS SC-499

USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
History
United States of America
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 × 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines 2 × shafts
Speed:	21 knots
Complement:	28
Armament:	1 × 40 mm gun 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) 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.

References

• Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: SC-499