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Photo # NH 99709:  USS SC-223 conducting survey operations in Cuban waters during the 1920s

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USS SC-223 (1917-1936)

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.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS SC-223.

For additional photographs concerning SC-223's Caribbean area surveying activities, see:

  • LeRoy R. Horstman's USS Hannibal Photo Album.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 99709

    USS SC-223


    Seen from USS Hannibal (AG-1) while conducting survey operations in Cuban waters, during the 1920s.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99714

    USS SC-353
    , left,
    and
    USS SC-223

    Alongside a dock at Key West, Florida, during the 1920s. USS Hannibal (AG-1) is partially visible in the background.
    Note navigation buoy on the dock.
    The two submarine chasers were then working with Hannibal on survey operations in Cuban waters.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99711

    USS SC-353
    , left,
    and
    USS SC-223

    Seen from USS Hannibal (AG-1) during the 1920s, while they were assisting with survey operations in Cuban waters.
    Tug in the left background is USS Nausett (YT-35).

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 580 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99713

    USS SC-353
    , left,
    and
    USS SC-223

    "Falling in formation to be towed", seen from USS Hannibal (AG-1) during the 1920s. The two submarine chasers worked with Hannibal on survey operations in Cuban waters.
    Tug in the left background is USS Nausett (YT-35).

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 113KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 75528

    U.S. Navy Submarine Chasers


    At the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, on 2 April 1918.
    The subchasers present include, from left to right: SC-223, SC-221, SC-136, SC-331, SC-332, SC-222, SC-89 or SC-189, SC-134, SC-133, SC-138 (probably), SC-135, SC-91 or SC-191, and one boat whose number is not visible.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99742

    U.S. Navy Submarine Chasers


    In an Azores harbor with other ships of the U.S. and foreign navies, circa October 1918.
    The six subchasers in the left center of the view, with bows to the camera, are (from left to right): SC-223, SC-330, SC-180, SC-353, SC-331 and (probably) SC-356. Ships nested with them, to the right, include a "bird" type minesweeper and two converted yacht patrol vessels.

    Collection of George K. Beach, who was a crewmember of USS SC-331 at the time.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     


    USS SC-223 may be present in the following photographs:

    Photo #: NH 99701

    USS Hannibal
    (AG-1)

    In the Caribbean area during the early 1920s, with two submarine chasers and a barge alongside.
    Outboard subchaser is USS SC-353 and the other is probably USS SC-223. Both worked with Hannibal on survey work.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99717

    USS Hannibal
    (AG-1)

    Ship's steam launches tied up to a submarine chaser, alongside Hannibal, while conducting surveys in Cuban waters during the 1920s.
    The subchaser (at extreme left) is either SC-223 or SC-353.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of LeRoy R. Horstman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     

    For additional photographs concerning SC-223's Caribbean area surveying activities, see:

  • LeRoy R. Horstman's USS Hannibal Photo Album.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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