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SC-343

Sunk 15 May 1919
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Built in 1918 by the American Car and Foundry Co., Wilmington, DE
  • Commissioned 15 March 1918
  • Burned and sunk 15 May 1919 at His Majesty's dockyard Ireland Island, Bermuda.

    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, and one depth charge projector "Y Gun"
  • Propulsion: Three 220hp Standard gasoline engines, three shafts.
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    SC-222 298k Original photo: Group of chasers, possibly at Brest, France. Left to right: SC 271, SC 164, SC 272, SC 343, SC 181, SC 222, SC 254, SC 356, SC 323, SC 206, SC 346. En route home or to post-war assignements. During the war all of these chasers served at Queenstown, Ireland (and most also served at Plymouth, England). After the war, half a dozen from this group went on to serve in the clearing of the North Sea mine barrage
    Replacement photo: c. 1918
    Group of chasers at Passage West, near Queenstown (Cobh), County Cork, Ireland    		 Original photo: The Sub Chaser Archives
    Replacement photo: Paul O'Farrell
    SC-343
    1215034301    		 39k RPPC of SC-343 underway, probably in Irish waters, 1918. Dave Wright
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS Arthur B. Cortright, USNRF - Awarded the Navy Cross (1918)15 March 1918
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-343
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