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SC-765


SC-765 served the Navies of the United States and Brazil.

SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down 8 April 1942 by W. A. Robinson, Inc., Ipswich, MA; Launched 12 November 1942; Commissioned USS SC-765, 3 December 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to Brazil 16 February 1943 and renamed Jaguarão (CS 55); Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement three officers, 24 enlisted; Armament one 40mm, two 20-mm, two or three dcp "K Guns", 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, two sets Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2 projectiles; Propulsion two General Motors 8-268A or two General Motors 16-184A "pancake" engines, two shafts.


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