BRAZILIAN NAVY NORTHEAST NAVAL FORCE * - 11 DESTROYER ESCORTS
6)DE ESC BERTIOGA D21
Photo. SDGM (Serviço de Documentação Geral da Marinha)
Built 1943
Commissioned 1 August 44.
Decommissioned 1964.
Tonnage : 1329 tons. 1623 tons full loaded.
Length: 93.2 m
Beam: 11 m
Draught: 6.09 m.
Propulsion: Diesel-Electric 4 General Motors Engines Model 16-278A in tandem, with 6.000 shp, two shafts.
Speed: 21 knots
Armament: 3.3 inch (76.2 mm/50) guns three single mountings Mk 22; 2 Bofors guns L/60 , 40 mm double mounting Mk 1; 8 Oerlikon Machineguns 20 mm single mounting Mk 4; 1 triple mounting torpedo tube 21 in (533 mm); 1 Thrower A/S (LBG) Mk 10; 2 Depth Charge racks Mk 3 and 8 K gun K Mk 6 for Depth Charges Mk 6 or Mk 9 and 2 Smoke Generators Mk 4.Sensors: 1 air surveillance radar SA; 1 Surface radar SL; 2 Optical directors Mk 51, coupled to the fire direction system Mk 51 and Sonar QCS-1.
Complement: 216
On 1 Aug 44 DE 175 Pennewill was decommissioned at Natal and recommissioned the same day in the Brazilian Navy and renamed Bertioga D 21. Between 9 and 20 February, participated in the convoy JW-65, along with the CTE Benevente - Be 6, being the 6th Brazilian escort only. In April, under the command of the Strike Group 27.6.8, along with the CTE Babitonga - Be 7 and CS's Grajaú - Guajará 7 and G - G 5 patrolled a wide area on the northeast coast in search of two suspects submarines.
