USS SC-3, until July 1920 known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 3 or USS S.C. 3, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I.

USS S.C. 3 at Charleston, South Carolina..
History
United States
Name
  • USS Submarine Chaser No. 3 (1918–1920)
  • USS SC-3 (1920)
BuilderNaval Station New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Commissioned23 January 1918
ReclassifiedSC-3 on 17 July 1920
FateSold 4 October 1920
General characteristics
Class and typeSC-1-class submarine chaser
Displacement
  • 77 tons normal
  • 85 tons full load
Length
Beam14 ft 9 in (4.50 m)
Draft
  • 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) normal
  • 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) full load
PropulsionThree 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
Speed18 knots (33 km/h)
Range1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement27 (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
USS S.C. 3 alongside the decommissioned protected cruiser USS Cincinnati (C-7) at New Orleans, Louisiana, sometime between April 1919 and April 1920. S.C. 3's "BO" markings are convoy station markings. Cincinnati is painted in dazzle camouflage and her funnels have been removed.

SC-3 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at Naval Station New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was commissioned on 23 January 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 3, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 3.

During World War I, S.C. 3 served on antisubmarine patrol duty in the Special Hunting Squadron, USS Salem Group, against German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico, and was based at Key West, Florida.

When the U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, Submarine Chaser No. 3 was classified as SC-3 and her name was shortened to USS SC-3.

On 4 October 1920, the Navy sold SC-3 to the Cuba Products Company of New Orleans.

References

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  •   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-3
  • The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-3
  • 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.