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PC-575



Call sign: November - Uniform - Delta - Tango



PC-575 served the Navies of the United States and Thailand.

PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 24 February 1942 by the Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, PA; Launched, 5 May 1942; Commissioned USS PC-575, 8 August 1942; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, March 1947 and sold to Thailand; Renamed Thayanchon (PC 2); Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown). Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) , 295 t.(fl); Length 175'; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 20k; Complement 6 Officers, 53 Enlisted; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one single 40mm gun mount; three 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, four depth charge projectiles, two depth charge tracks; Propulsion two Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (Serial No. 6680 and 6681), two shafts.
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