USS PC - 1137 USS " PC - 1137 was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . Shortly after the end of the war , she was renamed USS " PCC - 1137 when she was reclassified as a combat communications control ship . In 1956 , she was renamed " Worthington " ( PC - 1137 ) but never saw active service under that name . Career . " PC - 1137 " was laid down on 29 December 1942 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan ; launched on 29 March 1943 ; towed down the Mississippi River to New Orleans for outfitting and acceptance trials ; and commissioned there on 23 October 1943 , with Lieutenant George D . Lewis , USNR , in command . After shakedown training out of the Submarine Chaser Training Center at Miami , Florida , " PC - 1137 " headed for the southwestern Pacific late in November . She transited the Panama Canal on 5 and 6 December , and arrived at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on 18 February 1944 . Assigned to Task Group ( TG ) 35 . 6 , the ship spent the next five months escorting convoys among various American bases in the southwestern Pacific and conducting anti - submarine patrols from bases throughout the Solomons chain . On 26 July , she concluded that duty and began training to prepare for the invasion of the Western Carolines . Those preparations lasted until 4 September , at which time she departed Guadalcanal in the screen for LST Flotilla 13 , bound for the Palaus . During the initial assault on Peleliu between 14 and 16 September , she served as forward control and reference ship for the landings on Orange Beach 3 . On the 16th , she completed that assignment and began screening the operational area against Japan ese submarine attack . She remained occupied in this task until 15 November when she received orders assigning her to TG 96 . 3 at Eniwetok Atoll and signaling a return to convoy escort duty . Between 23 November 1944 and 3 March 1945 , " PC - 1137 " travelled the circuit between Eniwetok , Ulithi , Guam , and Saipan , screening supply and reinforcement convoys . On 4 March , " PC - 1137 " set a course for Pearl Harbor . She arrived at Oahu on 13 March and began a seven - week repair period during which she was converted to a combat communications control ship . She completed repairs and conversion near the end of the first week in May and then spent the following week in amphibious training exercises at Maui . On 21 May , " PC - 1137 " put to sea with LST Flotilla 35 en route to the Mariana Islands . She arrived at Saipan on 10 June and reported for duty as a convoy escort . For the remainder of the war , she made the convoy run hetween the Marianas and Okinawa in support of the final campaign of World War II and conducted anti - submarine patrols out of Apra Harbor , Guam . On 20 August , five days after the cessation of hostilities , she was officially reclassified a combat communications control ship , " PCC - 1137 " . After a repair period in late August and early September , the ship departed Guam on 20 September , bound for Japan and duty in the occupation forces there . She arrived in Tokyo Bay on 25 September and joined TG 53 . 4 . The submarine chaser operated in Japanese waters with the occupation forces until the beginning of 1946 . After several months service in the Central Pacific , notably at Truk , Eniwetok , and Guam , she departed Eniwetok to return to the United States . The ship made a six - day stopover at Pearl Harbor and then continued on to the west coast , arriving in Astoria , Oregon , on 27 May . She began the inactivation process immediately and was decommissioned on 10 August . Berthed with the Columbia River Group , Pacific Reserve Fleet , " PCC - 1137 " lay idle during the remaining 12 years and six months of her Navy career . On 15 February 1956 , she received the name " Worthington " , one she wore for only three years . On 29 May 1959 , her name was struck from the Navy list ; and later , she was sold for scrapping . " Worthington " earned one battle star during World War II as " PC - 1137 " .