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SC-96



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

  • Laid down by the Elco Co., Bayonne, NJ
  • Commissioned 18 December 1917
  • Sold 4 March 1924 to John Constantinides of Athens, Greece
  • 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.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-96 73k Joe Radigan
    SC-96 & SC-338 200k 4 July 1919
    Spalato, Yugoslavia (today Split, Croatia)
    Outboard of SC-338
    Photo from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman    		 Robert Hurst
    SC-151
    1215015106    		 144k SC-151 and SC-96 at Spalato, Italy (now Split, Croatia), circa 1919. Dave Wright
    Commanding Officers
    01LTJG Paul Springer, USNRF - Awarded the Navy Cross (1918)1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-96
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