USS ''PC-1168'' was a built for the

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during

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. ''PC-1168'' is notable for being the ship on which the film ''

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'', which starred

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, was filmed in 1950. The ship was later transferred to the

Republic of China Navy The Republic of China Navy (ROCN, Chinese, 中華民國海軍) , colloquially known as the Taiwanese Navy ( Chinese, 台湾海军) by Western or mainland Chinese media, or commonly referred as the National Military Navy ( Chinese, 國軍海軍) ...

, 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

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, 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

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s. These ships were of a flush-deck design similar to that of

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"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

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as ''PC-116''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:PC-1168 PC-461-class submarine chasers Ships built in Brooklyn 1943 ships World War II patrol vessels of the United States Cold War patrol vessels of the United States PC-461-class submarine chasers of the Republic of China Navy