USS PC-1168

USS PC-1168
History
United States
Name	USS PC-1168
Builder	Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation, Brooklyn, NY
Laid down	3 April 1943
Launched	3 July 1943
Commissioned	3 December 1943
Decommissioned	19 May 1954
Fate	19 May 1954, transferred to Republic of China Navy
Stricken	16 December 1970
History
Taiwan
Name	ROCS Ching Kiang (PC-116)
Acquired	19 May 1954
Decommissioned	16 December 1970
General characteristics
Class & type	PC-461-class submarine chaser
Displacement	295 tons fully loaded
Length	175 ft (53 m)
Beam	23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft	10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Propulsion	2 × General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14240 and 14241), two shafts.
Speed	20 knots
Complement	59
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-1168 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II. PC-1168 is notable for being the ship on which the film You're in the Navy Now , which starred Gary Cooper, was filmed in 1950. The ship was later transferred to the Republic of China Navy, serving from 1954 to 1970 as ROCS Ching Kiang (PC-116).

Career

PC-1168 was laid down on 3 April 1943 at the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation in Brooklyn, New York. She was launched on 3 July and commissioned 3 December 1943, one of 403 members of her class of 173-foot steel-hulled submarine chasers. These ships were of a flush-deck design similar to that of World War I "four-piper" destroyers, but were half the size and complement of their big sisters.

On 19 May 1954 she was decommissioned and transferred to the Republic of China as PC-116.

Sources

• Photo gallery of USS PC-1168 at NavSource Naval History