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PC-1179 Morris

Call sign: November - Papa - Sierra - November
PC-461 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down, 20 September 1943 at Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, Wisc.; Launched, 6 November 1943; Commissioned USS PC-1179, 22 January 1944 at New Orleans, LA.; Decommissioned 13 May 1946; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Renamed USS Morris (PC-1179), 15 February 1956; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960; Sold, 10 May 1961 to Zidell Shipbreakers, Portland, OR for $17, 038.88.
Specifications: Displacement 280 t.(lt) 450 t.(fl); Length 173' 8"; Beam 23'; Draft 10' 10"; Speed; 22k; Complement 65; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, one 40mm gun mount, five 20mm guns, two depth charge projectors, two depth charge tracks. two rocket launchers; Propulsion two Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines (Serial No. 833299 & 833300), two shafts.
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