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U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX PC PCE PG PY PYC

16)PC 576 PATROL CRAFT



Photo. www.navsource.org By Edib Kirlicbegovic


Laid down 3 April 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA


Launched 13 June 1942


Commissioned 10 September 1942


Decommissioned 14 February 1947


Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in July 1948


Sold to John A. Papadopolles of New York, NY


Fate unknown.


Specifications


Displacement: 295'.


Length: 174'.


Beam: 28'.


Draught: 8'.


Speed: 20 knots.


Complement: 58.


Armament: 1 3" gun, 1 40mm. gun, 5 20mm., machine guns 2 rockets, 2 Depth Charge projectiles, 2 Depth Charge throwers.


Propulsion two 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6682 and 6683), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.


This vessel was part of a group of 28 Patrol Crafts which took part in several convoy escorting duties under Fourth Fleet based at Recife Brazil. She rescued three survivors from the Dutch passenger ship Zaandam which was sunk by U-174 on 2/Nov/42 some 300 miles off Natal, Brazil and landed them at Recife where they were hospitalized for six weeks 


 

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