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Name
  
USS PC-1179

Commissioned
  
22 January 1944

Construction started
  
20 September 1943

Length
  
53 m

Laid down
  
20 September 1943

Decommissioned
  
13 May 1946

Launched
  
6 November 1943

Builder
  
Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Renamed
  
USS Morris (PC-1179), 15 February 1956

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.

References

USS PC-1179 Wikipedia