USS PC - 1141 USS " PC - 1141 was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . She was renamed USS " Pierre " ( PC - 1141 ) in 1956 . She was decommissioned from the U . S . Navy in October 1958 , and transferred to the Indonesian Navy as KRI " Tjakalang . Career . " PC – 1141 " was laid down by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company of Bay City , Michigan , on 12 March 1943 , launched on 22 June 1943 , and commissioned at New Orleans , Louisiana , on 23 December 1943 , as USS " PC - 1141 " , Lt . ( jg ) J . T . Weber , USNR , in command . After fitting out at the Naval Station , " PC - 1141 " departed New Orleans on 6 January 1944 and arrived three days later at the Submarine Chaser Training Center , Miami , Florida . Shakedown off Miami was followed by alterations at the Merrill - Stevens Drydock & Repair Co . , Miami , until 13 February when she departed for training at the Fleet Sonar School , Key West . She was assigned duty under Commander Gulf Sea Frontier and escorted convoys in the Gulf of Mexico and between Key West , Miami , and Cuba . On 13 May she sailed from Key West escorting a convoy which reached New York on 18 May . " PC - 1141 " was assigned duty under Commander Eastern Sea Frontier and based her operations from the Naval Frontier Base , Tompkinsville , New York , until 18 June . She made twelve escort voyages from New York to Guantánamo Bay and back , 31 May 1944 to 10 May 1945 . After overhaul at the Marine Basin Co . , and the Naval Frontier Base , she departed New York with four other submarine chasers on 18 June , reaching San Diego on 9 July . " PC - 1141 " then steamed independently to Pearl Harbor Navy Yard , arriving on 25 July for duty with the Service Force , U . S . Pacific Fleet . On 7 August she got underway as escort unit of a convoy which arrived at Kwajalein Atoll , Marshall Islands , on 17 August . She remained in the Marshalls through 12 February 1946 , conducting air - sea rescue patrol off Kwajalein and Roi Islands and standing by for long range air - sea rescue work . She departed Kwajalein on 12 February and arrived at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 17 March for upkeep . " PC - 1141 " sailed from San Francisco on 15 June for brief operations at Pearl Harbor , then steamed to Pago Pago Harbor , Tutuila , Samoa , arriving on 15 July . A unit of Service Division 11 of the Service Force , U . S . Pacific Fleet , she was based at Pago Pago until late in January 1948 , conducting rescue station patrol among the Samoan Islands with periodic voyages to Funafuti , Ellice Islands . In May she took up air - sea rescue station at Johnston Island . " PC - 1141 " continued air - sea rescue station and patrol duties until April 1954 . During this time she was alternately based at Johnston Island , Midway Island , Pearl Harbor , and Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands . On 10 April 1954 she was permanently based at Pearl Harbor to operate under the Commandant of the 14th Naval District for the remainder of her career in the United States Navy . Her primary duty was conducting training cruises for naval reservists among the Hawaiian Islands , and training cruises to Canton Island , Samoa ; San Francisco , California , and Papeete , Tahiti , French Polynesia . " PC - 1141 " was named " Pierre " ( PC - 1141 ) on 15 February 1956 , after the capital of South Dakota . " Pierre " was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 25 October 1958 , and struck from the Navy List the same day . She was then transferred to the Government of Indonesia under terms of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , and became KRI " Tjakalang " in the Indonesian Navy .