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SC-157



Call sign:
George - Boy - Tare - Love
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down at F. M. Blount, Pensacola, FL
  • Commissioned 13 March 1918
  • Struck from the Naval Register in late 1919
  • Sold 24 June 1921 to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia, PA
  • Registered in 1931 to Frank Gifford of Weehawken, NJ as the tanker Hazel G
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 85 t.
    81 t.
  • Length 110'
    1931 - 104.3'
  • Beam 14' 8.75"
  • Draft 5' 8"
    1931 - 8.3'
  • Speed 18 kts.
  • Complement 27
    1931 - Three
  • Armament: One 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns and one depth charge projector "Y Gun"
  • Propulsion: Three 220shp Standard gasoline engines, three shafts.
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