USS PC-1179

History
United States
Name:	USS PC-1179
Builder:	Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company,; Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin;
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)
Armament:	1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal; 1 × 40 mm gun; 3 × 20 mm cannons; 2 × rocket launchers; 4 × depth charge throwers; 2 × depth charge tracks;

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

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.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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