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

23)PC 605 PATROL CRAFT



Photo. www.navsource.org By Bob Daly PC 1181.  PC 605 seen alongside PC 1213 on launching May 1943


Laid down 20 March 1942 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stanford, CT


Launched, 19 November 1942


Commissioned USS PC-605, 28 May 1943;


Decommissioned, 11 June 1943 and transferred to Brazil as Gurupa (G4)


Scrapped in 1952. 


Specifications:


Tonnage 450 ton (Loaded).


Dimensions: Length: 52.73 m, Beam: 7.01 m, Draught 3.04 m.


Propulsion: Diesel; 2 Engines 16 Cylinders; General Motors Model 16-258S with 2.000 bhp, Serial No. 7815 and 7816 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.



PC 605 seen as Brazilian Gurupa on one patrol mission. Photo. http://www.naval.com.br/ngb/G/G086/G086-f01.jpg


 

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