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

14)PC 574 PATROL CRAFT

Photo. 1201057401.jpg (895×457) (navsource.org) By Bob Daly PC 1181

Laid down 30 December 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA

Launched 30 March 1942

Commissioned 2 July 1942

Decommissioned 15 May 1946 in Hawaii

Sold in November 1946 to Sid's Truck and Auto Sales, Ltd. of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii

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. 6678 and 6678), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.

USS PC-574, a 173-foot submarine chaser, was built at Wilmington, Delaware, and commissioned in early July 1942. She operated in the Atlantic and Caribbean areas until March 1945, and was part of Fourth Fleet based at Recife – Brazil

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