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

8)PC 494 PATROL CRAFT



Photo. Sister ship 496 By www.wikimedia.org


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


Launched 24 January 1942


Commissioned 23 May 1942


Decommissioned 15 January 1946 at Subic Bay, Philippines


Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 11 February 1948 and sold to Ty Engan. Fate unknown.


Specifications:


Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl)


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 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6668 and 6669), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.


PC 494 performed several duties when assigned to the Fourth Fleet Adm Jonas Ingram, Recife Brazil                                                   


 

 

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