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

17)PC 577 PATROL CRAFT



Photo. www.navsource.org  By  Steve Koller


Laid down 6 May 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Wilmington, DE


Launched 25 July 1942


Commissioned 15 October 1942


Transferred 21 December 1945 to the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Center, Edgewood Arsenal, MD


Struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946


Sunk 12 November 1948 between Norfolk, VA and Bermuda due to high contamination from chemical tests.


Specifications:


Displacement 280 t.(lt), 450 t.(fl) 


Length 173' 8" 


Beam 23"


Draft 10' 10" 


Speed 20.2 kts. 


Complement: 65.


Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, one 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, and two depth charge tracks. 


Propulsion two 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6684 and 6685), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. 


PC 577 performed several duties when assigned to the Fourth Fleet South Atlantic Recife Brazil. USS PC-577 picked up 46 survivors from the American merchant Birmingham City that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 50 nautical miles north of Paramaribo, Suriname in position 07º23'N 55º48'W.


PC-577 also picks up 24 survivors from the American tanker Broad Arrow that also was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 50 nautical miles north of Paramaribo, Suriname in position 07º35'N 55º45'W.


USS PC-577 picks up survivors from the American merchants Collingsworth (34 survivors) and Minotaur (46 survivors) that were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 50 nautical miles north of Paramaribo, Suriname in position 07º12'N, 55º37'W.


 

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