BRAZILIAN NAVY NORTHEAST NAVAL FORCE * - 16 SUBMARINE CHASERS
5)SUB CHASER GUAJARA G5
Sub Chaser Guajara moored at the pier at Natal Naval Base.
Built 1942
Incorporated 19/Oct/1943
Decommissioned 11 Apr 1959.
Tonnage 295 t / 450 t full loaded.
Length: 52.73 m
Beam: 7.01 m
Draught 3.04 m.
Propulsion: Diesel; 2 Engines 16 Cylinders; General Motors Model 16-258S gearing 2.000 bhp, 2 shafts with 3 blade propellers.
Speed: Max. 20 knots.
Range: 3.000 Nautical miles @12 knots.
Armament: 1 3 pol. (76.2 mm/50) Oerlikon gun; 1 Bofors L/60 gun, 40 mm in one single mounting Mk 3; 2 machineguns Oerlikon 20 mm single mountings Mk 4; 2 grenade octuples throwers of A/S (LBG) 7.2 pol. Mousetrap Mk 20 at the bow ; 2 Depth Charges rack Mk 3 and 2 side throwers type K Mk 6 for Depth Charges Mk 6 or Mk 9.
Sensors: 1 surveillance surface radar type SF or SL; 1 hull sonar.
Complement: 65
Sub Chaser Guajara - G 7, ex-USS PC 607, was built at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stanford, Connecticut. She was launched 11/Feb/43. She was transferred and incorporated to the Brazilian Navy 19/Oct/1943 in a ceremony Miami, Florida. Her first commander was Lieutenant Captain Dário Camillo Monteiro. During war SC Guajará escorted 62 convoys.
On 22 Apr 1944 she spotted and rescued a boat with survivors from a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura from US Navy off Recife.
