Allied Warships

USS PC-609 (PC-609)

Patrol craft of the PC-461 class

NavyThe US Navy
TypePatrol craft
ClassPC-461 
PennantPC-609 
Built byBrown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Jan, 1942 
Launched30 May, 1942 
Commissioned7 Sep, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to Thailand in 1947 being renamed Khamronsin 

Noteable events involving PC-609 include:

28 Dec, 1942
USS PC-609 picks up 9 survivors from the British merchant Treworlas that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 50 miles east of Port of Spain, Trinidad in position 10º52'N, 60º45'W.


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