U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX PC PCE PG PY PYC
10)PC 544 PATROL CRAFT
PC 544 in Brazilian Navy as Guapore. Photo Diretoria do Patrimonio Historico e Documentação da Marinha
Laid down 24 March 1942 by the Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, MI
Launched 30 May 1942
Commissioned USS PC-544, 5 June 1942
Transferred to Brazil 24 September 1942 and Guapore (G 1) at Natal, Brazil
Transferred to the Brazilian Army 4 January 1958 and scrapped later that year.
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 patterns, 2 Depth Charge throwers.
Propulsion two 2,880 bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6355 and 6356), Farrel-Birmingham 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
