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.
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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 |
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Class and type: | SC-1-class submarine chaser |
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Beam: | 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) |
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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 |
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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
- 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.
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-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.
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-1.
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.