Photo. Sister ship PC 815 By www.wikipedia.org
Laid down 1 May 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA
Launched 7 September 1942
Commissioned 9 March 1943
Transferred to the War Assets Administration 3 December 1947 and sold to C. Roose of Honolulu, HI
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. 6825 and 6826), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts.
PC 594 performed several duties when assigned to the Fourth Fleet South Atlantic Recife
By www.navsource.org Photo Bob Daly PC 1181.Starboard side bridge of PC-594
Photo by Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory
Side scan SONAR image of PC-594
Photo by Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory