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USS SC-661, a fellow SC-497 class submarine chaser.
History
United States
Name	USS SC-499
Operator	United States Navy United States Coast Guard
Builder	Fisher Boat Works
Laid down	24 February 1941
Launched	24 March 1941
Commissioned	18 March 1942
Recommissioned	20 August 1945 as USCGC Air Brant (WAVR-412)
Fate	Sold 20 January 1948
General characteristics
Class & 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 × 1,540bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Div.) 16-184A diesel engines 2 × shafts
Speed	21 knots
Complement	28
Armament	1 × 40 mm gun 2 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) caliber machine guns (2x1) 2 × Y-guns 2 × ducts

USS SC-499 was a SC-497 class submarine chaser of wood construction that served in the United States Navy and later the United States Coast Guard during World War II. She was laid down as SC-499 on 24 February 1941 by the Fisher Boat Works in Detroit, Michigan, and launched on 24 October 1941. She was commissioned as USS SC-499 on 18 March 1942. SC-499 was transferred to the Coast Guard on 20 August 1945 and commissioned as USCGC Air Brant (WAVR-412). She was stationed at Staten Island, New York and assigned to the USCG Air Sea Rescue Service. On 23 January 1946 she was placed "in commission in reserve" and was sold on 20 January 1948.

See also

• Other ships built by Fisher Boat Works:

• MV Cape Pine
• HNoMS Hitra
• USS SC-500

References

• Photo gallery of USS SC-499 at NavSource Naval History
• Scheina, Robert L. (1990). U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946–1990. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-87021-719-7.