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SC-38



Call sign:
Nan - Oboe - Cast - Dog
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY
  • Commissioned 1 February 1918
  • Participated in North Sea minesweeping operations in 1919 to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage. During these operations, she struck a mine on 4 September 1919 and was damaged, but suffered
    no casualties
  • Salvaged and sold 19 December 1919 to Thomas Lee of Ipswich, England
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications

  • Displacement 85 t.
  • Length 110'
  • Beam 14' 8.75"
  • Max Draft (fl) 5' 8"
  • Speed 18 kts.
  • Complement 27
  • Armament: One single 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns, and one depth charge projector "Y Gun"
  • Propulsion: Three Standard 220hp gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-37, 38, 181, 208, 182 & 272 103k USS Panther moored in Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands, while supporting the North Sea mine barrage clearance operation in 1919. She has several trawlers and submarine chasers alongside. The latter include (from left to right, in outboard group off Panther's port side: SC-48, SC-328, SC-38 and SC-181
    Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken by DeLong, of USS Black Hawk, published in the cruise book "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage, 1919", page 33
    Donation of Chief Storekeeper Charles A. Free
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 99690    		 Robert Hurst
    SC-21 103k Photo from "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage" by the U.S. Navy North Sea Minesweeping Detachment Joe Radigan
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS Kendall T. Methot, USNRF1918
    02ENS Nathaniel Rubinkam, USNRF - Awarded the Navy Cross (1919)1919 - 1 June 1919
    03ENS Kenneth A. McPherson, USNRF - Awarded the Navy Cross (1919)1 June 1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-38
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