U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX PC PCE PG PY PYC
11)PC 547 PATROL CRAFT
Photo. 1201054403.jpg (1000×720) (navsource.org) By Dan Treadwell.
Laid down 16 April 1942 by the Defoe Shipbuilding Corp., Bay City, MI
Launched 22 May 1942
Commissioned USS PC-547, 24 July 1942
Transferred to Brazil 24 September 1942 and named Gurupi (G 2)
Decommissioned 18 Sep 1959. Scrapped 4 Nov 1959
Specifications:
Displacement: 295’.
Length: 174'.
Beam: 8'.
Draught: 8'.
Speed: 20 knots.
Complement: 58.
Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks.
Propulsion two 2,880 bhp General Motors 16-258S diesel engines (Serial No. 6908 and 6909), 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
