USS Winnemucca ( PC - 1145 ) USS Winnemucca ( PC - 1145 ) was laid down on 2 June 1943 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan ; launched on 27 October 1943 ; and commissioned at New Orleans , Louisiana , on 1 June 1944 , with Lieutenant J . L . Houget , USNR , in command . " PC - 1145 " completed shakedown training in the Gulf of Mexico on 11 June and reported for duty to the Commander , Gulf Sea Frontier . For the next year , the submarine chaser plied the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic seaboard conducting anti - submarine patrols and escorting coastwise convoys , In the performance of those duties , the little warship ranged as far north as New York City and as far south as the Panama Canal Zone . Following the victory in Europe , " PC - 1145 " received orders assigning her to the Pacific Fleet . Early in June 1945 , she departed her base at Miami , Florida , and headed via the Panama Canal for the California coast and underwent repair s at San Diego , California , before continuing west to Hawaii . She departed San Diego on 15 July and arrived in Pearl Harbor on the 21st . She did not resume her westward voyage toward the Marshall Islands until 7 August . The submarine chaser reported for duty upon her arrival at Eniwetok Atoll on the 13th , but hostilities ceased the following day . Nevertheless , the submarine chaser remained in the western Pacific more than a year . For about a month following her arrival , she performed patrol and escort duty in the Marshalls and the Carolines . On 7 September , she departed Eniwetok for a round - trip voyage to Japan , returning almost a month later , on 5 October . The ship then resumed her patrol and escort duties in the Marshalls and Carolines . After a round - trip voyage to Wake Island late in October , she reported to the atoll commander at Majuro in November for duty as station search and rescue ship . That assignment lasted until mid - February 1946 when she departed Majuro for extensive maintenance at Guam . She completed repairs on 16 June and departed Guam on an inspection tour of the Western Carolines carrying representatives of the United States Commercial Company , a public corporation charged with responsibility for the economic rehabilitation of the Central Pacific region . For the next four months , " PC - 1145 " served the United States Military Government administering the Central Pacific islands and worked hand - in - hand with officials of the United States Commercial Company surveying the region in preparation for efforts to reestablish a viable local economy . In November , she departed the Central Pacific for her first complete overhaul since commissioning . She entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 21 November and remained there until 23 December . On that date , she reported to the Commander , Fleet Training Center , Pearl Harbor , under whose auspices she conducted refresher training and made a cruise to Hilo . " PC - 1145 " departed Pearl Harbor on 27 February 1947 , and on 4 March , arrived at Midway Island where she reported for duty to the Commander , Naval Operating Base , Midway . There , she served as an air search and rescue ship until the end of the second week in May . Relieved by " PC - 1172 " on the 13th , " PC - 1145 " headed back to Pearl Harbor . The warship operated out of the Oahu base conducting upkeep and repairs and serving as a training ship until late July . She then returned to Midway and resumed duty as search and rescue vessel . On 15 November , " PCS - 1399 " relieved her at Midway ; and " PC - 1145 " returned to Pearl Harbor for a restricted availability . For the remainder of her active career , " PC - 1145 " alternated between duty out of Pearl Harbor and service as an air search and rescue ship , at first based at Midway but later at Kwajalein , Johnston Island , Guam , and Samoa . After 1950 , however , Guam and Samoa ceased to be duty station s for the submarine chaser and her sister ships . Duty in and out of Pearl Harbor consisted of repairs , training , target towing , and anti - submarine warfare operations . " PC - 1145 " departed Pearl Harbor for the last time on 19 February 1955 and arrived in San Francisco , California , a week later . Following nearly four months of repairs at Treasure Island , she stood out of San Francisco Bay on her way to Astoria , Oregon , and inactivation . On 15 August 1955 , the ship was placed out of commission at Astoria and was berthed with the Columbia River Group , Pacific Reserve Fleet . On 15 February 1956 , the submarine chaser — still inactive — was named " Winnemucca " , after a city in northwestern Nevada situated on the Humboldt River , and the seat of government for Humboldt County . She remained with the reserve fleet until 1 June 1960 when her name was struck from the Navy List . On 1 November , she was transferred to the Navy of the Republic of Korea .