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SC-120



Call sign:
Nan - Oboe - Jig - Love
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser

  • Laid down at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA
  • Commissioned 4 October 1917
  • Sold 20 July 1921 to Henry A. Hitner Sons Co. of Philadelphia, PA
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 99 t.
  • Length 110'
  • Beam 13' 6"
  • Draft 6' 3"
  • Speed 17 kts.
  • Complement 26
  • Armament: One 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns, and one depth charge projector "Y Gun"
  • Propulsion: Three 220hp Standard gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    SC-120 234k Bringing the mail to USS Iowa (BB-4) off the U.S. East Coast, circa 1918
    Collection of Commander Haines H. Lippincott, ChC, USN
    U.S. Navy photo NH 86174    		 Naval History and Heritage Command
    SC-120 897k At the Quartermasters Terminal, Boston, Massachusetts, on 23 May 1919, after their arrival from overseas. Many of these SCs are flying long Homeward Bound pennants. The group at left includes (from left): SC-120, SC-130, and six other subchasers. The four subchasers at right are (from inboard to outboard): unidentified SC, SC-220, SC-34
    and SC-222
    Panoramic photograph by the F.A. George Photo Company, 680 Mass. Ave., Boston
    Donation of Gwyndolyn Towles, April 2007
    U.S. Navy photo NH 105181
    Photo added 10 October 2020
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-120
    Additional Resources and Websites of Interest
    Patrol Craft Sailors Association
    The Sub Chaser Archives
    by Todd Woofenden
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