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History
United States
Name
  • USS Submarine Chaser No. 49 (1918-1920)
  • USS SC-49 (1920-1920)
BuilderNew York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
Commissioned27 March 1918
RenamedUSS SC-49 17 July 1920
FateSold 24 June 1921
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 SC-49 hauled out of the water.

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 World War I.

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.

This section needs expansion with: S.C. 49's operational history from March 1918 to April 1919. You can help by adding to it. (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.

This section needs expansion with: S.C. 49's operational history from April 1919 to June 1921. You can help by adding to it. (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.

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