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SC-302



Call sign:
Nan - Oboe - Tare - Mike


SC-302 served the Navies of the United States and Cuba
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA
  • Commissioned 11 January 1918
  • Sold to Cuba 9 November 1918
  • Scrapped in the 1950's.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 85 t.
  • Length 110'
  • Beam 14' 8.75"
  • Draft (fl) 5' 8"
  • Speed 18 kts.
  • Complement 27
  • Armament: One 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns, one depth charge projector "Y Gun"
  • Propulsion: Three 220hp Standard gasoline engines, three screws.
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    SC-288 195k Line drawings by A. D. Baker, III from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman Robert Hurst
    SC-288 122k
    Vicksburg 121k The schooner Alexander Agassiz photographed at the time of her capture by USS Vicksburg (PG 11) off Mazatlan, Mexico, 17 March 1918. She was suspected of being a potential German raider or contraband carrier. The prize crew is seen here going aboard. SC-302 is in the background
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 2644
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-302
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