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USCGC Hansen
ex-USS SC-68



Call sign:
George - Tare - Jig - Boy

SC-68 served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Built by the John H. Mathis Co., Camden, NJ
  • Commissioned USS SC-68, 15 March 1918
  • Transferred to the Coast Guard 15 January 1920 and named USCGC Hansen at Key West, FL
  • Named for a member of the torpedoed USCGC Tampa, lost during World War I
  • Loaned to the Prohibition Commissioner on 10 March 1922
  • Sold 28 April 1927
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 99 t.
  • Length 110"
  • Beam 13' 6"
  • Draft 6' 3"
  • Speed 17 kts.
  • Complement 26
  • Armament: One 3"/23 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns and one depth charge projector "Y Gun"
  • Propulsion: Three 220hp Standard gasoline engines, three shafts.
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