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USS SC-49, prior to July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 49 and USS S.C. 49, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during the First World War.
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Builder | New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |
Commissioned | 27 March 1918 |
Renamed | USS SC-49 17 July 1920 |
Fate | Sold 24 June 1921 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | SC-1-class submarine chaser |
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Length |
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Beam | 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) |
Draft |
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Propulsion | Three 220 bhp (160 kW) Standard Motor Construction Company six-cylinder gasoline engines, three shafts, 2,400 US gallons (9,100 L) of gasoline; one Standard Motor Construction Company two-cylinder gasoline-powered auxiliary engine |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Range | 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 27 (2 officers, 25 enlisted men) |
Sensors and processing systems | One Submarine Signal Company S.C. C Tube, M.B. Tube, or K Tube hydrophone |
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SC-49 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, and was commissioned on 27 March 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 49 , abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 49.
This section needs expansion with: S.C. 49's operational history from March 1918 to April 1919. You can help by adding to it. (February 2011) |
On 26 April 1919, 26 sailors who had traveled as passengers from Cardiff, Wales, and arrived the previous evening at New York City aboard the cargo ship USS Bellingham (ID-3552) transferred from Bellingham to S.C. 49 while Bellingham was at anchor off Tompkinsville, Staten Island.
This section needs expansion with: S.C. 49's operational history from April 1919 to June 1921. You can help by adding to it. (February 2011) |
When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 49 was classified as SC-49 and her name was shortened to USS SC-49.
On 24 June 1921, the Navy sold SC-49 to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for his private boat firm.
References
edit- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-49
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-49
- Woofenden, Todd A. Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of World War II. Bowdoinham, Maine: Signal Light Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9789192-0-7.