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

25)PC 609 PATROL CRAFT



Photo. www.navsource.org By Linda Komorous


Laid down, 8 January 1942 by the Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX


Launched, 30 May 1942


Commissioneduss PC 609  7 September 1942 at Naval Section Base, Galveston, TX


Rescued seven crew members and two gunners from the British merchant SS Treworlas sunk by U-124 in pos. 10° 52'N, 60° 45'W and landed them in Trinidad


Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission 10 May 1947


Transferred to Thailand in 1947 and named HTMS Khamronsin (PC 3)


Decommissioned 11 December 1953


Removed from the active list in 1956


Fate unknown.


Specifications.


Built 1942


Tonnage 450 ton (Loaded).


Dimensions: Length: 52.73 m, Beam: 7.01 m, Draught 3.04 m.


Propulsion: Diesel; 2 Engines 16 Cylinders; General Motors Model 16-258S Serial No. 10878/10879 gearing 2.000 bhp, 2 shafts with 3 blade propellers.


Speed: Max. 20 knots.


Range: 3.000 Nautical miles @12 knots.


Armament: 1 3 pol. (76.2 mm/50) Oerlikon gun; 1 Bofors L/60 gun, 40 mm in one single mounting Mk 3; 2 machineguns Oerlikon 20 mm single mountings Mk 4; 2 grenade octuples throwers of A/S (LBG) 7.2 pol. Mousetrap Mk 20 at the bow ; 2 Depth Charges rack Mk 3 and 2 side throwers type K Mk 6 for Depth Charges Mk 6 or Mk 9.


Sensors: 1 surveillance surface radar type SF or SL; 1 hull sonar.


Complement: 65.


PC 609 performed several duties when assigned to the Fourth Fleet South Atlantic Recife Brazil. Rescued seven crew members and two gunners from the British merchant SS Treworlas sunk by U-124 in pos. 10° 52'N, 60° 45'W and landed them in Trinidad


 

 

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