Photo. 1201048904.jpg (688×518) (navsource.org) PC 489 seen in Drydock.
Specifications:
Length 173' 8"
Beam 23'
Draft 10' 10"
Speed 20.2 kts.
Complement 65
Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, and two depth charge tracks
Propulsion two 2,880 bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6674 and 6675), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
She served with distinction in the Caribbean and South Atlantic Sea Frontiers, under Fourth Fleet based at Recife Brazil, and kept in constant activity in ASW duties and convoy escorts in the early part of the war (1942-44).USS PC-489, a 173-foot submarine chaser, was built at Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned in mid-July 1942 and served in the Atlantic and
Photo. 1201048909.jpg (886×190) (navsource.org) PC 489 escorting a Convoy. By Phil Wagner