USS SC-500
 USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS SC-500 |
| Operator |  United States Navy |
| Builder | |
| Laid down | 27 February 1942 |
| Launched | 11 October 1942 |
| Commissioned | 31 March 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 10 June 1945 |
| Fate | Transferred to Soviet Navy, 10 June 1945 |
 Soviet Union | |
| Name | BO-319 |
| Operator |  Soviet Navy |
| Acquired | 10 June 1945 |
| Commissioned | 10 June 1945 |
| Fate | Destroyed 1956 in lieu of return to United States |
| 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 |
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| Speed | 15.6 knots |
| Complement | 28 |
| Armament |
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USS SC-500 was a
SC-497-class submarine chaser in commission from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. She later served in the Soviet Navy
as BO-319.
Construction and commissioning
SC-500 was
launched on 11 October 1942. She was commissioned
on 31 March 1942.
Service history
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After
Soviet Far East.[2]
Disposal
In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II, and on 8 May 1947,
James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned. Deteriorating relations between the two countries as the Cold War broke out led to protracted negotiations over the ships, and by the mid-1950s the U.S. Navy found it too expensive to bring home ships that had become worthless to it anyway. Many ex-American ships were merely administratively "returned" to the United States and instead sold for scrap in the Soviet Union, while others, at the suggestion of the Soviets, were destroyed off the Soviet coast under the observation of American naval authorities. In 1956, BO-319 was destroyed, probably off Nakhodka, under the latter arrangement.[3]
See also
- Other ships built by Fisher Boat Works:
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Motor Gunboat/Patrol Gunboat Photo Archive: SC-500
- ^ "USS SC-500 (SC-500) of the US Navy - American Submarine chaser of the SC-497 class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat.net". uboat.net. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ISBN 0-945274-35-1, pp. 20, 40.
- ISBN 0-945274-35-1, pp. 37-38, 40.