BRAZILIAN NAVY NORTHEAST NAVAL FORCE * - 16 SUBMARINE CHASERS
14)SUB CHASER JURUÁ CS 53
Photo. SDGM (Serviço de Documentação Geral da Marinha)
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser
Laid down 3 April 1942 by W. A. Robinson, Inc., Ipswich, MA
Launched 12 October 1942
Commissioned USS SC-764, 30 October 1942
Transferred to Brazil 31 December 1942 and renamed Jurua (CS 53)
Decommissioned, 23 Sep 1948
Stricken from the Naval Register, (1951). Fate unknown.
Displacement: 148 t
Length 110' 10"
Beam 17' 11"
Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl)
Speed 15.6 or 21k
Complement: 3 officers, 24 sailors
Armament one 40mm, two 20-mm, two or three dcp "K Guns", 20 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.
During World War II, Jurua patrolled 64,514 miles, in 247 days at sea and escorted 36 convoys. She was stricken from active duty in the Navy on September 23, 1948
