USS SC-223, a 110-foot SC-1 class submarine chaser, was built at Morris Heights, New York. Placed in commission in December 1917, she served along the U.S. East Coast for some months, then crossed the Atlantic for World War I duty closer to the areas of principal fighting. SC-223 returned to the U.S. sometime after the Armistice and was apparently involved in operations around Haiti in 1919. In 1920, when the Navy formally implemented its ship designation system, she became Submarine Chaser 223 (or S.C. 223), with the hull number PC-223. Though decommissioned in December 1922, she was soon assigned to Cuban survey duty as an adjunct to Hannibal (AG-1). According to the 1935 edition of "Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels", she was loaned to the City of Baltimore, Maryland, later in her career. USS S.C. 223 was stricken from the Navy list in August 1935 and sold in March 1936.
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