USS PC-1168

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|Ship image=File:PC1168SisterNogah.jpg

|Ship caption=USS PC-1168

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|Ship country=United States

|Ship flag= {{USN flag|1954}}

|Ship name=USS PC-1168

|Ship builder=Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation, Brooklyn, NY

|Ship laid down= 3 April 1943

|Ship launched= 3 July 1943

|Ship commissioned= 3 December 1943

|Ship decommissioned= 19 May 1954

|Ship fate= 19 May 1954, transferred to Republic of China Navy

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|Ship struck= 16 December 1970

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|Ship country=Taiwan

|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Republic of China|naval}}

|Ship name=ROCS Ching Kiang (PC-116)

|Ship acquired= 19 May 1954

|Ship commissioned=

|Ship decommissioned= 16 December 1970

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{{Infobox ship characteristics

|Ship class={{sclass|PC-461|submarine chaser|1}}

|Ship displacement=295 tons fully loaded

|Ship length={{convert|175|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|23|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship draft={{convert|10|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=2 × General Motors 16-278A diesel engines (Serial No. 14240 and 14241), two shafts.

|Ship speed= 20 knots

|Ship complement=59

|Ship armament=*1 × 3-inch/50-caliber gun

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USS PC-1168 was a {{sclass|PC-461|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.

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