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USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Casimir Pulaski (1745–1779), a Polish general who served in the American Revolutionary War.
[2] Patrol torpedo boat PT-728 built by Annapolis Yacht Yard is a rare surviving PT boats at the Liberty Aviation Museum. [3] On 1 April 1941, Annapolis Yacht Yard and Chris Nelson, its president, was give its first contract to build two 110-foot submarine chasers.
[1] The US Navy lost six SC boats during World War I; [3] USS SC-60 lost in collision with the tanker Fred M. Weller on 1 October 1918, [5] [6] USS SC-117 in a fire on 22 December 1917, [7] USS SC-132 was lost in collision on 5 June 1918, [7] USS SC-187 in a collision on 4 August 1918, [7] USS SC-209 by friendly fire from the cargo ship SS ...
The SC-1 class was a large class of submarine chasers built during World War I for the United States Navy.They were ordered in very large numbers in order to combat attacks by German U-boats, with 442 vessels built from 1917 to 1919.
[1] [2] USS SC-317: Robert Jacob City Island, Bronx: 11 January 1917: To France as C-21. [1] [2] USS SC-318: Luders Marine Construction Company Stamford, Connecticut: 22 December 1917: To France as C-28. [1] [2] USS SC-319: Luders Marine Construction Company Stamford, Connecticut: 22 December 1917: To France [1] [2] Disappeared at sea during ...
US Navy NH 96504 a 63 ft (19 m) air-sea rescue boat built by Fellows & Stewart US Navy submarine chaser SC-1011 built by Fellows & Stewart, off Terminal Island in July 1943. Fellows & Stewart Inc. was a shipbuilding company in San Pedro, California on Terminal Island 's Pier 206.
Victory Shipbuilding Company built two submarine chasers that were of the SC-497-class submarine chaser design that had a displacement of 94 tons with a length of 110 feet (34 m), a beam of 17 feet (5.2 m), a draft of 6 feet (1.8 m), a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph). They had a crew of 28.
The SC-497-class submarine chasers were a class of 438 submarine chasers built primarily for the United States Navy from 1941–1944. [1] The SC-497s were based on the experimental submarine chaser, USS SC-453. Submarine chasers of this variety were collectively nicknamed "the splinter fleet" due to their wooden hulls. [2]