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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); 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.

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PC-495
PC-495 50k Launching, 30 December 1941 at Dravo Corp.
USN Photo 019-N-27172.		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
Sarasin (PC 1)
PC-495 40k c. 1950 Robert Hurst
PC-495 109k Bangkok, Thailand, 26 May 1967.
Photo from Warships International # 3-1986		 Bob Daly/PC-1181
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