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PC-495



Call sign:
Nan - Fox - Baker - Charlie


PC-495 served the Navies of the United States and Thailand.
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down, 10 June 1941 by the Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Launched, 30 December 1941
  • Commissioned USS PC-495, 23 April 1942
  • Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 10 May 1947
  • Transferred to Thailand in 1951 as Sarasin (PC 1)
  • Decommissioned 30 September 1992 and sunk as a target.

    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, two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Two 2,880bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler diesel engines (Serial No. 6664 and 6665), Westinghouse simgle reduction gear, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    PC-495
    PC-495 50k Launching, 30 December 1941 at Dravo Corp.
    USN Photo 019-N-27172.    		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    USS PC-495
    PC-495 485k c. late 1943/early 1944
    Miami, FL
    Third row, fourth from left, with cap cocked to the right: Leo Byrnes    		 Mike Byrnes
    Sarasin (PC 1)
    PC-495 40k c. 1950 Robert Hurst
    PC-495 109k 26 May 1967
    Bangkok, Thailand
    Photo from Warships International # 3-1986    		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
    There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-495.
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