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SC-440
ex-PC-440



Call sign:
George - Have - Quack - Watch

Call sign (1919):
Nan - Item - Quack - Vice
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Built by Howard E. Wheeler, Brooklyn, NY
  • Commissioned PC-440, 20 January 1919
  • Used for training at U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, entire career
  • Scrapped in August 1942

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 77 t.
  • Length 110'
  • Beam 13' 6"
  • Draft 6' 3"
  • Speed 18 kts.
  • Complement 17
  • 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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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-440
    1215044002    		 65k Moored with an unidentified flush decker destroyer, probably at Annapolis in 1930s. Dave Wright
    SC-440
    1215044001    		 34k Moored at Annapolis, MD, circa 1940. Schoolhouse Trading Post
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS James Joseph McDermott, USNRF20 January 1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-440
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