The Pattaya wrecks ,HTMS Sarasin , Shipwreck diving in Pattaya, Thailand, with the 5-star Dive Academy Thailand diving center.

The Pattaya wrecks H.T.M.S. Sarasin - ex PC 495

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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 HTMS 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 single reduction gear, two shafts.

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• VESSEL_NAME: H.T.M.S. Sarasin - ex PC 495
• VESSEL_NATIONALITY: Thai Navy Warship
• TYPE_OF_VESSEL: Submarine Chaser
• DEPTH_WRECK: 34
• DEPTH_SEABED: 42
• LOCATION: 4 hours offshore from Satahip Bay, Chonburi Province
• GPS_NORTH: UNKNOWN
• GPS_EAST: UNKNOWN
• WRECK_LENGTH: 173ft
• WRECK_WIDTH: 23ft
• WRECK_TONS: 450
• WRECK_PROPS: 2
• BOTTOM_CONDITION: sand

HOW_WRECK_SUNK:

Sunk as a target during a anti ship missile test firing exercise

WRECK_DOING_WHAT:

OTHER_INFORMATION:

a lot of penetration to explore

All information on this page courtesy of www.navsource.org

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 HTMS 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 single reduction gear, two shafts.