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
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.