U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX PC PCE PG PY PYC
15)PC 575 PATROL CRAFT
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Laid down 24 February 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA
Launched 5 May 1942
Commissioned USS PC-575, 8 August 1942
Struck from the Naval Register 13 December 1946
Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission in March 1947, sold to Thailand and named HTMS Thayanchon (PC 2)
Decommissioned 26 May 1982
Fate unknown.
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. 6680 and 6681), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
This vessel was part of Fourth Fleet Recife, Brazil in convoy escorting and patrolling south Atlantic lanes. On 07/Jul/43, USS PC-575 picked up survivors from the American merchant James Robertson that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-185 about
