USS SC-1

USS SC-1, prior to July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 1 or USS S.C. 1, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I.

USS S.C. 1 (right) and her sister ship USS S.C. 4 (left) at Charleston, South Carolina.
History
United States
Name:
  • USS Submarine Chaser No. 1 (1917-1920)
  • USS SC-1 (1920-1921)
Builder: Naval Station New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Commissioned: 1[1] or 8[2] October 1917
Reclassified: SC-1 on 17 July 1920
Fate: Sold 20 July 1921
General characteristics
Class and type: SC-1-class submarine chaser
Displacement:
  • 77 tons normal
  • 85 tons full load
Length:
  • 110 ft (34 m) overall
  • 105 ft (32 m) between perpendiculars
Beam: 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m)
Draft:
  • 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) normal
  • 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) full load
Propulsion: Three 220-brake horsepower (164-kilowatt) Standard Motor Construction Company six-cylinder gasoline engines, three shafts, 2,400 US gallons (9,100 L) of gasoline; one Standard Motor Construction Company two-cylinder gasoline-powered auxiliary engine
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 1,000 nautical miles (1,850 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement: 27 (2 officers, 25 enlisted men)
Sensors and
processing systems:		 One Submarine Signal Company S.C. C Tube, M.B. Tube, or K Tube hydrophone
Armament:
USS S.C. 1 (left) and her sister ships USS S.C. 345 (center) and USS S.C. 344 (right) moored to a buoy at Salcombe, England, during World War I.

SC-1 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at Naval Station New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was commissioned on either 1[3] or 8[4] October 1917 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 1, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 1.

During World War I, S.C. 1 was based at Base 27, Plymouth, England, from which she conducted antisubmarine patrols against German submarines as a part of Unit 1 with the submarine chasers S.C. 344 and USS S.C. 345.

When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 1 was classified as SC-1 and her name was shortened to USS SC-1.

On 20 July 1921, the Navy sold SC-1 to Henry A Hitner & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Notes
  1. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/sc1/sc-1-sc-100v1.htm and NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-1.
  2. The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-1.
  3. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/sc1/sc-1-sc-100v1.htm and NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-1.
  4. The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-1.
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References
  • This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  • NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-1
  • The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-1
  • Woofenden, Todd A. Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of World War I. Bowdoinham, Maine: Signal Light Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9789192-0-7.


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