USS SC-38

Submarine Chaser No. 38 is in the center in this 27 November 1917 photograph of SC-1-class submarine chasers under construction at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. At left is Submarine Chaser No. 36, and the bow of Submarine Chaser No. 39 is at right.
History
United States
Name:
  • USS Submarine Chaser No. 38 (1917-1919)
  • USS SC-38 (retrospectively since 1920)
Builder: New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
Commissioned: 1 February 1918
Fate: Sold December 1919
General characteristics
Class and type: SC-1-class submarine chaser
Displacement:
  • 77 tons normal
  • 85 tons full load
Length:
Beam: 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m)
Draft:
  • 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) normal
  • 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) full load
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
Armament:

USS SC-38, during her service life known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 38 or USS S.C. 38, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I.

SC-38 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned on 1 February 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 38, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 38.

In 1919, Submarine Chaser No. 38 participated in North Sea minesweeping operations to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage. During these operations, she struck a mine on 4 September 1919 and was damaged, but suffered no casualties. She was salvaged, and the Navy sold her to Thomas Lee of Ipswich, England, in December 1919.

The U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, after Submarine Chaser No. 38 had left Navy service. Had she remained in Navy service at that date, she would have been classified as SC-38 and her name would have been shortened to USS SC-38, and she now is referred to retrospectively by this name.

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