Name USS SC-497 Laid down 7 March 1941 Construction started 7 March 1941 Length 34 m Displacement 134,300 kg | Commissioned 15 April 1942 Launched 4 July 1941 Weight 150.4 tons Beam 5.18 m | |
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Builder Westergard Boat Works, Inc. Fate Transferred to France on 18 March 1944, permanently on 15 August 1944. | ||
USS SC-497 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 originally laid down as PC-497 on 29 November 1941 by the Westergard Boat Works in Rockport, Texas, and launched on 4 July 1941. She was commissioned as USS PC-497 on 16 October 1942. She was later reclassified as a SC-497 class submarine chaser and renamed SC-497. She was transferred to the Free French Navy as part of the Lend-Lease program on 18 March 1944 as CH-96. The transfer was made permanent on 15 August 1944. She was renamed CH-724 in 1952 and later P-724 before being withdrawn from service on 23 October 1980. Her exact fate is unknown.
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