Photo. www.navsource.org By Bob Daly PC 1181
Laid down 31 March 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA
Launched 27 June 1942
Commissioned USS PC-592, 28 November 1942
Placed in service as a Naval Reserve Training vessel in July 1946 in the 6th Naval District (Charleston)
Decommissioned in January 1950 at Norfolk, VA
Named Towanda 15 February 1956
Struck from the Navy Register 1 April 1959
Fate unknown.
Specifications:
Displacement 450 t.
Length 173' 8"
Beam 23'
Draft 10' 10"
Speed 20.2 kts.
Complement 65.
Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks.
Propulsion two 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6815 and 6816), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
PC 592 played active role in South Atlantic escorts and patrol duties under Adm Ingram’s Fourth Fleet based at
On 9/Mar/43, USS PC-592 picked up survivors from the American merchants James K. Polk, James Smith and Mark Hanna that were torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-510 about 175 nautical miles north of Cayenne, French Guyana in position 07º40'N 52º07'W.
On 28/May/43, USS PC-592 picked up 69 survivors from the American tanker Florida that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-154 about 125 miles east of Fortaleza, Brazil in position 03º56'S 36º43'W.