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SC-98
SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser: Laid down by the Elco Co., Bayonne, NJ; Commissioned USS SC-98, 19 February 1918. Her war time service, under the command of Ensign Norman Donaldson, USNRF with Ensign William K. Barclay, USNRF as Executive officer, saw her crossing the Atlantic to patrol the English
Channel from her base in Harwich, England. Sold 14 October 1924 to the Florida Boat Co., Washington, DC; Worked out of New Haven, Connecticut for the previous 15 years as the commercial fishing boat Bertie N; Sold to the Interstate Navigation Company, Point Judith, RI, renamed Viking and put on the Point Judith to Block Island ferry run. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 98 t; Length 110' 10"; Beam 17' 11"; Max. Draft 6' 6"(fl); Speed 15.6 or 21k; Complement 27; Armament one dual purpose 3"/23, two .30 cal. machine guns, and one depth charge projectile (Y-gun); Propulsion three 660hp Standard gasoline engines, three shafts.
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Underway in New York Harbor on 20 August 1919, upon their return from overseas service. The subchasers at left are
SC-99 and SC-227. The three in the middle are (in closest column) SC-98 and SC-137, with SC-271 in the farther column. Ships at right can not be identified.
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