USS PC-1181 off the coast of Belize, British Honduras before being decommissioned and named Wildwood
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS PC-1181 |
Builder | Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Florida |
Cost | $1,600,000[1] |
Laid down | 5 October 1942 |
Launched | 15 April 1943 |
Commissioned | 17 September 1943 |
Decommissioned | 18 August 1946 |
Renamed | 15 February 1956 |
Stricken | 1 April 1959 |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | PC-461-class submarine chaser |
Displacement | 280 tons (light), 295 tons (full) |
Length | 175 feet (53 meters) |
Beam | 23 feet (7.0 meters) |
Draft | 10 feet 10 inches (3.30 meters) |
Installed power | 2 × Buda 844 six-cylinder diesels powering 60 KW — 120 volt DC generators[2] |
Propulsion | 2 × Hamilton R-99DA diesel engines[2] |
Speed | 20 knots |
Endurance | 3,000 nautical miles @ 12 knots (5,600 km @ 22 km/h) |
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USS PC-1181 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was later renamed Wildwood (PC-1181) but never saw active service under that name.