USS PC - 1181 USS " PC - 1181 was a 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 . Career . " PC - 1181 " was laid down on 5 October 1942 at Gibbs Gas Engine Co . in Jacksonville , Florida and launched on 15 April 1943 . She was commissioned as USS " PC - 1181 " on 17 September 1943 at Charleston Navy Yard in Charleston , South Carolina . She was decommissioned on 18 August 1946 and given the name " Wildwood " on 15 February 1956 . She was never recommissioned and therefore did not have the USS prefix to her name while she was named " Wildwood " . She was struck from the Navy Register on 1 April 1956 and sold for scrap . USS " PC - 1181 " was fitted out at the Charleston Navy Yard and then reported for shakedown training out of Miami , Florida and later sonar and antisubmarine warfare training at the Fleet Sonar School at Key West . With her training complete , USS " PC - 1181 " set out from Key West to escort Convoy KN - 275 to New York City on 6 November 1943 . The convoy successfully arrived on 11 November , Armistice Day . The following week on 19 November , " PC - 1181 " was charged with escorting Convoy NG - 399 to Guantanamo Bay , Cuba . One day out she suffered an oil leak and was put into Norfolk , Virginia to undergo repairs . The convoy proceeded without her . Two days later , with repairs completed , USS " PC - 1181 " resumed course and rejoined the convoy before it reached Guantanamo Bay on 27 November . On 30 November " PC - 1181 " set sail for New York with Convoy GN - 99 , reaching her destination on 6 December . She quickly set out to sea again , escorting Convoy NG - 404 to Guantanamo Bay . She was tasked with breaking away from the convoy to escort a lagging merchant who had fallen behind from the rest of the convoy . " PC - 1181 " didn ' t reach her destination until 20 December . " PC - 1181 " set sail for New York once again on Christmas Day and arrived on New Year ' s Day , 1944 . On 6 January , she set out with Convoy NG - 409 to Guantanamo Bay , but once again broke away to stand by a disabled merchant ship , " SS Beta " which had developed engine problems . After the merchant ship repaired her engines , both ships set course to rejoin the convoy . At 2132 hours on 12 January , " PC - 1181 " ' s sonar operators picked up a contact and began search operations . However , another submarine chaser , " PC - 618 " picked up an even stronger contact and " PC - 1181 " was called off her search to assist " PC - 618 " in her search . The search returned no results and both ships broke off the search to return to the convoy , completing the voyage on 15 January . " PC - 1181 " continued escorting convoys between New York City and Guantanamo Bay . Her area of operation expanded to include convoys from Guantanamo Bay to the Panama Canal in May 1944 . As the war in the Atlantic and Europe drew to a close in the spring of 1945 , the convoy system was disbanded as the need for military escorts became obsolete . With the convoy system no longer needed , " PC - 1181 " was reassigned to Submarine Squadron 3 , serving as a target vessel during training missions for submarines operating in the Gulf of Mexico out of Panama . She continued operating in the gulf until the war with Japan ended in August 1945 . With the war over , " PC - 1181 " was reassigned to the defense forces of the Panama Canal . She conducted patrols and training operations out of Panama until June 1946 . She was ordered back to Key West , arriving there on 13 July . She was later decommissioned there on 18 August 1946 . As a decommissioned ship , " PC - 1181 " served as a training ship for the Naval Reserve units in Key West and St . Petersburg , Florida , until 1950 when she was placed in reserve at Brownsville , Texas . Later , she was shifted to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet ' s berthing area at Norfolk , Virginia and was named " Wildwood " on 15 February 1956 . She was never commissioned as " Wildwood " . She was struck from the Navy Register on 1 April 1959 and sold for scrap .