Jutaí ex SC 762 seen escorting one Casablanca bound convoy, March 1943. Photo by J. R. Eyerman from LIFE Magazine archives, shared by Peter DeForest. Seen from USS Jeffrey (DD-621. Source Mike Green. http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/1215076202.jpg
SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser
Laid down 23 March 1942 by W. A. Robinson, Inc., Ipswich, MA
Launched 14 September 1942
Commissioned USS SC-762, 7 October 1942
Decommissioned, (date unknown)
Transferred to Brazil 31 December 1942 and renamed Jutaí (CS 52)
Struck 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 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. Source: DANFS
Above a panomramic view of SC Jutai seen at full steam during one convoy escort mission.
Photo. Revista Maritima Brasileira
On 21/Jul/44, along with SC Grauna- SC Jutai, when part of screen of convoy JT-18, went on assistance to the survivors of Corvette Camaqua - C 6 which capsized and sank due to rolling sea at 09:30 hs some 12 miles northeast of Recife.