USS SC-501

USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
History
United States of America
Name	USS SC-499
Operator	United States Navy United States Navy
Builder	Seabrook Yacht Corporation
Laid down	29 April 1941
Launched	24 January 1942
Stricken	5 June 1946
Fate	Sold on 20 December 1946.
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 × 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear 2 × shafts
Speed	21 knots
Complement	28
Armament	1 × 40 mm gun mount 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × Y-guns 2 × ducts

USS SC-501 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser that served in the United States Coast Guard and later the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally laid down as PC-501 on 29 April 1941 by the Seabrook Yacht Corporation in Houston, Texas, and launched on 24 January 1942. She was reclassified SC-501 on 8 April 1943, and acquired from the Coast Guard on 9 April 1943. She was reclassified as Unclassified Miscellaneous Vessel IX-100 on 21 April 1943 and named Racer on 3 May 1943. She was in service from 27 May 1943 to 21 May 1946. She was struck from the Navy Register on 5 June 1946 and sold to the private market on 20 December 1946.

References

• Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: SC-501