Submarine chaser of the SC-497 class
| 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 |
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| History | Decommissioned on 28 June 1950. |
| Former name | USS SC-765 |
| Noteable events involving Jaguarão include: 3 Jul, 1943
Jaguarão 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 the German submarine U-185 about 175 nautical miles east of Fortaleza, Brazil in position 04º05'S, 35º58'W. |
