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USS SC 521

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Laid down
  
5 May 1941

Fate
  
Foundered

Speed
  
15.6 knots

Launched
  
1 February 1942

Weight
  
150.4 tons

Draft
  
1.98 m

Commissioned
  
15 April 1942

Height
  
10 feet 10 inches

Construction started
  
5 May 1941

Length
  
34 m

Displacement
  
134,300 kg

Beam
  
5.18 m

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Propulsion
  
2 × 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines 1 × Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear 2 × shafts

USS SC-521 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Navy during World War II. She was laid down on 5 May 1941 by the Annapolis Yacht Yard, Inc. in Annapolis, Maryland and launched on 1 February 1942. She was commissioned on 15 April 1942. She foundered on 10 July 1945 off Santa Cruz, Solomon Islands.

References

USS SC-521 Wikipedia