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SC-330, a 110-foot SC-1 class submarine chaser, was built at Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She was commissioned in February 1918 and assigned to Division 12 of Submarine Chaser Squadron 4 for service overseas during World War I. Returning to the Western Hemisphere after the fighting ended, she was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for much of 1919 and then turned over to the Eighth Naval District to be laid up, probably in the vicinity of New Orleans, Louisiana. In mid-1920, when the Navy formally implemented its ship designation system, she became Submarine Chaser 330 (or S.C. 330), with the hull number PC-330, and was sent up the Mississippi River to begin some two decades as a Naval Reserve training vessel in the upper Midwest. After serving through World War II, USS SC-330 was transferred to the War Shipping Adminstration in October 1946.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS SC-330.
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Photo #: NH 91189 USS SC-330 En route across the Atlantic, circa September-October 1918. Collection of George K. Beach, who was a crewmember of USS SC-331 at the time. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41996 USS SC-330 Underway in Midwestern waters, during the 1920s or 1930s. Sign on the building in the right distance reads: "Central Illinois Light Co.". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 540 pixels |
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USS SC-330 is seen distantly in the following photograph:
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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 |
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