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
A submarine chaser or subchaser is a small naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare. Many of the American submarine chasers used in World War I found their way to Allied nations by way of Lend-Lease in World War II.
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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
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at
Brooklyn,
New York
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. 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.
References
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NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-38The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-38* Woofenden, Todd A. ''Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of World War I''. Bowdoinham, Maine: Signal Light Books, 2006. .
SC-1-class submarine chasers
World War I patrol vessels of the United States
Ships built in Brooklyn
1918 ships
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