USS SC-501

USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
Career (United States of America)
Name:	USS SC-499
Operator:	United States Navy  United States Coast Guard
Builder:	Seabrook Yacht Corporation
Laid down:	29 April 1941
Launched:	24 January 1942
Struck:	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 x 800bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear 2 x shafts
Speed:	21 knots
Complement:	28
Armament:	1 x 40mm gun mount 2 x .50 caliber machine guns 2 x Y guns 2 x 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