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PC-495



Call sign:
November - Foxtrot - Bravo - 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; Decommissioned, (date unknown); Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission, 10 May 1947; Transferred to Thailand, 1951 and renamed Sarasin (PC1); 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 six 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 diesel engines (Serial No. 6664 and 6665), two shafts.


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PC-495 50k Launching, 30 December 1941 at Dravo Corp.
USN Photo 019-N-27172.
Bob Daly/PC-1181
PC-495 109k Bangkok, Thailand, 26 May 1967.
Photo from Warships International # 3-1986
Bob Daly/PC-1181

There is no DANFS History currently available for PC-495 at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
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