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USS <i>SC-43</i>

USS SC-43

US Navy anti-submarine warfare ship

USS SC-43, until July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 43 or USS S.C. 43, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I.

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The submarine chasers S.C. 43 (left) and S.C. 44 (right) under construction at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York, on 4 February 1918.

SC-43 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 16 May 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 43, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 43.

When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 43 was classified as SC-43 and her name was shortened to USS SC-43.

On 24 June 1921, the Navy sold SC-43 to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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-43
  • The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-43
  • 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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