USS PC-1179
Appearance
History | |
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Name | USS PC-1179 |
Builder | |
Laid down | 20 September 1943 |
Launched | 6 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 22 January 1944 |
Decommissioned | 13 May 1946 |
Renamed | USS Morris (PC-1179), 15 February 1956 |
Stricken | 1 July 1960 |
Fate | Sold, 10 May 1961; scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PC-461-class submarine chaser |
Length | 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) |
Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m) |
Propulsion | 2 x 2,880bhp Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines (Serial No. 833299 and 833300), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. |
Speed | 20.2 kn (37.4 km/h; 23.2 mph) |
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USS PC-1179 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was later renamed Morris (PC-1179) but never saw active service under that name.
Career
[edit]PC-1179 was commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1946, she was renamed as the eighth USS Morris in 1956.
She was struck from the navy register on 1 July 1960 and sold on 10 May 1961, to Zidell Shipbreakers in Portland, Oregon for $17,038.88.
References
[edit] This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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