USS SC-498
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.
USS PC-498 before her conversion into USS SC-498. | |
History | |
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United States of America | |
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 | |
Name: | CH-142, and later P-696 |
Operator: | |
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: |
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Speed: | 15.6 knots |
Complement: | 28 |
Armament: |
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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.
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.
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