 USS S.C. 2 during World War I. The "BR" painted on her hull and superstructure is a convoy station marking.
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| History | |
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| Builder | Naval Station New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Commissioned | 8 January 1918 |
| Reclassified | SC-2 on 17 July 1920 |
| Fate | Sold 29 October 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | SC-1-class submarine chaser |
| Displacement |
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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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USS SC-2, until July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 2 or USS S.C. 2, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I.
SC-2 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at Naval Station New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was commissioned on 8 January 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 2, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 2.
For a time the ship was under temporary command of Medal of Honor recipient Isadore Nordstrom.
During World War I, S.C. 2 served on antisubmarine patrol duty in the Special Hunting Squadron, USS Salem Group, against German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico, and was based at Key West, Florida.
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When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 2 was classified as SC-2 and her name was shortened to USS SC-2.
On 29 October 1930, the Navy sold SC-2 to the City of New Orleans, Louisiana.
References
- "SC-2". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
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-2
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-2
- 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.
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