Navy | The Brazilian Navy |
Type | Submarine chaser |
Class | SC-497 |
Pennant | CS 55 |
Built by | W.A. Robinson Inc. (Ipswich, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | |
Laid down | 8 Apr 1942 |
Launched | 12 Nov 1942 |
Commissioned | 16 Feb 1943 |
End service | 28 Jun 1950 |
History | Decommissioned on 28 June 1950. |
Former name | USS SC-765 |
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Notable events involving Jaguarão include:
3 Jul 1943
Jaguar?o picks up 21 survivors from the American merchant James Robertson and 3 survivors from the American tanker William Boyce Thompson that were both torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-185 about 175 nautical miles east of Fortaleza, Brazil in position 04°05'S, 35°58'W.