| USS SC-40 | |
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 Submarine Chaser No. 40, later SC-40, in the North Sea in 1919 during minesweeping operations to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage after World War I. | |
| Career (U.S.) |  |
| Name: |
USS Submarine Chaser No. 40 (1917-1920) USS SC-40 (1920-1924) |
| Builder: | New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York |
| Commissioned: | 13 February 1918 |
| Reclassified: | SC-40 on 17 July 1920 |
| Fate: | Sold 14 October 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | SC-1-class submarine chaser |
| Displacement: |
77 tons normal 85 tons full load |
| Length: |
110 ft (34 m) overall 105 ft (32 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam: | 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) |
| Draft: |
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) normal 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) full load |
| 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 |
| Armament: |
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USS SC-40, until July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 40 or USS S.C. 40, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I.
SC-40 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned on 13 February 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 40, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 40. In 1919, Submarine Chaser No. 40 participated in North Sea minesweeping operations to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage after World War I.
When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 40 was classified as SC-40 and her name was shortened to USS SC-40.
On 14 October 1924, the Navy sold SC-40 to the Florida Boat Company of Washington, D.C..
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-40
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-40
- 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. ISBN 10: 0-9789192–0-3.
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