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
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:	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) gun mount 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) caliber machine guns 2 × Y-guns 2 × ducts

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.