USS SC-498 (original) (raw)
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 USS PC-498 before her conversion into USS SC-498. |
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| History | |
 United States |
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| Name | USS SC-498 |
| Operator |  United States Navy |
| Builder | Westergard Boat Works, Inc. |
| Laid down | 12 March 1941 |
| Launched | 21 July 1941 |
| Commissioned | 29 April 1942 |
| Fate | Transferred to France on 18 October 1944 |
  France |
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| Name | CH-142, and later P-696 |
| Operator |  Free French Naval Forces  French Navy |
| Acquired | 18 October 1944 |
| 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 × 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear 2 × shafts |
| Speed | 15.6 knots |
| Complement | 28 |
| Armament | 1 × [3 in (76 mm)](/wiki/3%22/23%5Fcaliber%5Fgun "3"/23 caliber gun") gun mount 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) caliber machine guns 2 × Y-guns 2 × ducts |
USS SC-498 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy, and later the Free French Navy, during World War II.
She was laid down as PC-498 on 12 March 1941 by the Westergard Boat Works in Rockport, Texas, and launched on 21 July 1941. She was commissioned as USS PC-498 on 29 April 1942. She was later reclassified a SC-497 class submarine chaser and renamed SC-498.[1]
She was transferred to the Free French Navy as part of the Lend-Lease program on 18 March 1944 as CH-142, and was later reclassified as P-696. Her exact fate is unknown.[2]
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