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

5)PC 491 PATROL CRAFT



Photo. 1201049101.jpg (750×1010) (navsource.org) By Bob Daly PC 1181


Specifications:


Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl) 


Length 173' 8" 


Beam 23' 


Draft 10' 10" 


Speed 20.2 kts. 


Complement 65. 


Laid down 9 May 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, 


Launched 6 December 1941


Commissioned 13 April 1942 at New Orleans, LA


Struck from the Naval Register 13 December 1946


Transferred to the State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission in January 1948


Sold for scrap 13 February 1948 to T. Y. Fong


Departed Subic Bay Naval Base for the scrap yard 10 September 1949.


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 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6674 and 6675), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. 


PC-491 Class Submarine Chaser: Was attached to Adm Ingram’s Fourth Fleet based at Recife Brazil and performed several patrols and escorting convoy duties.


 

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