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SC-306



Call sign (1919):
George - Tare - Quack - Boy

Call sign (1924):
Nan - Oboe - Tare - Rush

SC-306 served the U. S. Navy and the Department of Justice

SC-1 Class Submarine Chaser:

  • Laid down by the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA
  • Commissioned 27 February 1918
  • Entered Mare Island Navy Yard, Mare Island, CA 13 July 1921
  • Decommissioned 20 June 1922 at Mare Island
  • Towed from Mare Island 28 November 1922
  • Transferred to the Department of Justice 17 December 1930 for use at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and named McDowell
  • Was still in use at Alcatraz in 1950
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 85 t.
  • Length 110'
  • Beam 14' 8.75"
  • Draft (fl) 5' 8"
  • Speed 18 kts.
  • Complement 27
  • 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 screws.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    SC-288
    1215028802    		 195k Line drawings by A. D. Baker, III from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman Robert Hurst
    SC-288
    1215028803    		 122k
    SC-306
    1215030601    		 112k RPPC of SC-306 underway in San Pedro harbor, 08 January 1920. The caption on the back describes it as "one of the small boats which carry passengers to the warships and between San Pedro and Long Beach." Dave Wright
    Commanding Officers
    01ENS Orrin Daggett Gove, USNRF1918
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for SC-306
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