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24)PC 607 PATROL CRAFT

PC 607 seen as Brazilian Sub Chaser Guajara moored at the pier at Natal Naval Base.

Photo. https://www.marinha.mil.br/dphdm/sites/www.marinha.mil.br.dphdm/files/Ca%C3%A7a-Submarino%20Guajar%C3%A1%20II.pdf

Laid down 1 July 1942 by the Luders Marine Construction Co., Stanford, CT

Launched 11 February 1943

Commissioned USS PC-607, 27 August 1943

Decommissioned 19 October 1943, transferred to Brazil and named Guajara (G 5)

Fate unknown.

Specifications.

Built 1942

Tonnage 450 ton (Loaded).

Dimensions: Length: 52.73 m, Beam: 7.01 m, Draught 3.04 m.

Propulsion: Diesel; 2 Engines 16 Cylinders; General Motors Model 16-258S Serial No. 10878/10879 gearing 2.000 bhp, 2 shafts with 3 blade propellers.

Speed: Max. 20 knots.

Range: 3.000 Nautical miles @12 knots.

Armament: 1 3 pol. (76.2 mm/50) Oerlikon gun; 1 Bofors L/60 gun, 40 mm in one single mounting Mk 3; 2 machineguns Oerlikon 20 mm single mountings Mk 4; 2 grenade octuples throwers of A/S (LBG) 7.2 pol. Mousetrap Mk 20 at the bow ; 2 Depth Charges rack Mk 3 and 2 side throwers type K Mk 6 for Depth Charges Mk 6 or Mk 9.

Sensors: 1 surveillance surface radar type SF or SL; 1 hull sonar.

Complement: 65.

USS PC 607, was built at Luders Marine Construction Co., Stanford, Connecticut. She was launched 11/Feb/43. She was transferred and incorporated to the Brazilian Navy 19/Oct/1943 when was renamed as Guajara in a ceremony Miami, Florida. 

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