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USS SC-48

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|Ship image=Image:USS Panther.jpgs at Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands, in 1919. Sister ships {{USS|SC-328

2}}, {{USS|SC-382}}, and {{USS|SC-1812}} are aport of SC-48.]]

|Ship caption=USS SC-48 (right center, under the large American flag) anchored aport of {{USS|Panther|1889|2}} and several naval trawlers at Kirkwall Harbor, Orkney Islands, in 1919. Sister ships {{USS|SC-328

2}}, {{USS|SC-382}}, and {{USS|SC-1812}} are aport of SC-48.

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|Ship country=United States

|Ship flag={{USN flag|1921}}

|Ship name=USS SC-48

|Ship builder=*New York Navy Yard

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|Ship commissioned=27 March 1918

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|Ship fate=Sold on 24 June 1921; Ultimate fate unknown

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|Ship class={{sclass|SC-1|submarine chaser|1}}

|Ship displacement=85 tRadigan, SC-48.

|Ship length={{convert|110|ft|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|14|ft|8.75|in|m|abbr=on}}

|Ship draft={{convert|5|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}

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  • 3 × {{convert|660|hp|abbr=on}} Standard gasoline engines
  • 3 shafts

|Ship speed={{convert|18|kn|lk=in}}

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USS SC-48, sometimes styled as either Submarine Chaser No. 48 or S.C.-48, was an {{sclass|SC-1|submarine chaser}} built for the United States Navy during World War I. Like most members of her class, she was not named and known only by her designation.

Construction and commissioning

SC-48 was built at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. She was commissioned 27 March 1918.

Service history

On 28 June 1918 SC-48 left New London, Connecticut in a convoy with 17 other submarine chasers, destroyer tender {{USS|Bridgeport|AD-10|2}}, and several other vessels, bound for France via Bermuda and the Azores. At 06:40 on 5 August, as the convoy neared the Ushant Light, SC-48 spotted a torpedo wake headed for Bridgeport and sounded the alarm. Bridgeport’s evasive action avoided the torpedo, and, despite reports of a periscope sighting, no submarine was ever located or sunk.Cressman.

SC-48 served with sister ships {{USS|SC-45||2}} and {{USS|SC-47||2}} in Unit 20 of Division 21, and was based in Plymouth and Queenstown during the war. After the Armistice, Unit 20 took part in operations to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage through the end of September 1919.{{cite web | url = http://www.subchaser.org/set-sc45-00 | title = SC 45: Unit 20 Collection | work = The Sub Chaser Archives | date = 11 January 2007 | publisher = Subchaser.org | access-date = 2008-02-29 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/victory/victoryq.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000823101521/http://history.navy.mil/medals/victory/victoryq.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = August 23, 2000 | title = World War I Victory Medal service credits: Q–Z | date = 2005-05-31 | access-date = 2008-02-29 }}

It is unclear if SC-48 remained in commission on 17 July 1920. If she were, she would have received, as part of the new U.S. Navy letter-number scheme, the hull designation of PC-48.Radigan, Submarine chasers…

SC-48 was sold on 24 June 1921 to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia. By 1925, the ship had been renamed Stumble Inn 1 and was owned by Clarence Fix and based in Buffalo, New York.{{cite news | url = http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/24130/data | title = Vessel Renamings: STUMBLE INN 1 | work = Maritime History of the Great Lakes | access-date = 2008-02-29 }} The Fix family used this ship for bootlegging and it was seized by the Canadian government which is the last recording of its whereabouts.

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References

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  • {{cite web | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b9/bridgeport-i.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060908002838/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b9/bridgeport-i.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = September 8, 2006 | title = Bridgeport | last = Cressman | first = Robert J. | date = 2005-12-06 | publisher = United States Navy | work = Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships | access-date = 2008-02-29 }}
  • {{cite web | url = http://www.navsource.net/archives/12/150048.htm | title = SC-48 | last = Radigan | first = Joseph M. | year = 2007 | access-date = 2008-02-29 }}
  • {{cite web | url = http://www.navsource.net/archives/12/01idx.htm | title = Submarine Chasers (SC) and (PC), Patrol Craft Escort (PCE), Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue) - (PCE(R), Patrol Craft Sweepers (PCS) | last = Radigan | first = Joseph M. | year = 2007 | access-date = 2008-02-29 }}
  • {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/sc1/sc-201-sc-300v1.htm}}

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External links

  • {{navsource|12/150048|SC-48}}
  • [http://www.subchaser.org/sc48 Photo of SC-48] in dry dock in Malta.

{{SC-1 class submarine chasers}}

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Category:SC-1-class submarine chasers

Category:Ships built in Brooklyn

Category:World War I patrol vessels of the United States

Category:1918 ships

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