USS SC-41
SC-1-class submarine chasers at Lisbon, Portugal. Submarine Chaser No. 41, later SC-41, is closest to the camera, with a canvas cover marked "SC 41" over her crow's nest .
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| History | |
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 United States | |
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| Builder | Brooklyn, New York |
| Commissioned | 19 February 1918 |
| Reclassified | SC-41 on 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) |
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| Propulsion | Three 220 bhp (160 kW) 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 enlisted men ) |
| Sensors and processing systems | One |
| Armament |
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USS SC-41, until July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 41 or USS S.C. 41, was an
SC-1 class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I
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SC-41 was a wooden-
Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned
on 19 February 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 41, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 41.
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When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 41 was classified as SC-41 and her name was shortened to USS SC-41.
On 24 June 1921, the Navy sold the SC-41 for scrap to the C. P. Comerford Company of Lowell, Massachusetts.
"Cinderellas of the Fleet"- over 400 of these sub-chasers were built during the war. Manned mostly by American college men, they were intended primarily to guard the home shores. "Many were sent across where they served effectively against the submarines." - Jim Geldert
References
- 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-41
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-41
- Woofenden, Todd A. Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of World War I. Bowdoinham, Maine: Signal Light Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9789192-0-7.