USS SC-49
{{Short description|Submarine chaser of USA}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USS SC-49.jpg }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1918}} |Ship name=*USS Submarine Chaser No. 49 (1918-1920)
|Ship builder=New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned=27 March 1918 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed=USS SC-49 17 July 1920 |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship fate=Sold 24 June 1921 |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=SC-1-class submarine chaser |Ship displacement=*77 tons normal
|Ship length=*{{convert|110|ft|m|abbr=on}} overall
|Ship beam={{convert|14|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft=*{{convert|5|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} normal
|Ship propulsion=Three {{convert|220|bhp|abbr=on}} Standard Motor Construction Company six-cylinder gasoline engines, three shafts, {{convert|2400|USgal|L}} of gasoline; one Standard Motor Construction Company two-cylinder gasoline-powered auxiliary engine |Ship speed={{convert|18|kn|km/h}} |Ship range={{convert|1,000|nmi|km}} at {{convert|10|kn|km/h}} |Ship complement=27 (2 officers, 25 enlisted men) |Ship armament=
|Ship sensors=One Submarine Signal Company S.C. C Tube, M.B. Tube, or K Tube hydrophone |Ship notes= }} |
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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.
Construction and commissioning
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.
Service history
{{expand section|S.C. 49{{'}}s operational history from March 1918 to April 1919|date=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.
{{expand section|S.C. 49{{'}}s operational history from April 1919 to June 1921|date=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
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/sc1/sc-201-sc-300v1.htm}}
- [http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/150049.htm NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-49]
- [http://www.subchaser.org/sc49 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}}.
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Category:SC-1-class submarine chasers
Category:World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Category:Ships built in Brooklyn
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