USS Glenwood (PC-1140)

Career (USA)

Name:	USS Glenwood (PC-1140)
Namesake:	Glenwood, Iowa; Glenwood, Minnesota
Builder:	Defoe Shipbuilding Company
Laid down:	February 8, 1943
Launched:	June 14, 1943
Commissioned:	January 22, 1944
Decommissioned:	January 1947
Struck:	July 1, 1960
Fate:	Sold March 1961
General characteristics
Class and type:	PC-553-class submarine chaser
Displacement:	280 tons (light) 450 tons (full)
Length:	173 ft 8 in (52.9 m)
Beam:	23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft:	10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)
Propulsion:	2 General Motors 16-278A diesel engines, 2 x shafts
Speed:	22 knots
Complement:	65
Armament:	1 x 3"/50 gun, 1 x 40mm gun, 3 x 20mm guns (3x1), 4 x depth charge projectors, 2 x depth charge tracks, 2 x Hedgehog rocket launchers

USS Glenwood (PC-1140) was an PC-553-class submarine chaser for the United States Navy laid down on February 8, 1943 at Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan. She was launched on June 14, 1943, and was commissioned on January 22, 1944 under the command of Lieutenant F. H. Beardaley, Jr.

After initial shakedown in Miami, Florida, PC-1140 escorted convoy runs in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean until early June of 1944, when she was sent for an overhaul in Norfolk, Virginia. In July she sailed for the Mediterranean, arriving in Bizerte, Tunisia on the 28th. She was assigned to patrol duties along the coast of Italy until August 14 when she was assigned to escort a convoy en route to the invasion of Southern France. She patrolled the assault area and ran convoy escort duty during the assault, returning to Naples, Italy on August 17.

For the remainder of World War II, she operated on patrol and escort duty between the Italian and French coasts. After VE Day, PC-1140 returned to the United States, arriving in Key West, Florida on June 14, 1945. She was scheduled for Pacific operations; however the war came to a conclusion before her deployment. Instead she served in training exercises off the coast of Florida until November 6, 1946 when she returned to Norfolk. PC-1140 was decommissioned in January of 1947 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. While berthed at Green Cove Springs, Florida, she was given the name Glenwood, after the cities in Mills County, Iowa and Pope County, Minnesota on February 15, 1956. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on July 1, 1960 and she was disposed of by Navy sale in March of 1961.