USS SC-22

USS SC-22, during her service life known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 22 or USS S.C. 22, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I. She later served in the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Quigley.

Submarine Chaser No. 22 (lower left), sometime between 1917 and 1919.
History
United States
Name:	USS Submarine Chaser No. 22 (1917-1919) USS SC-22 (retrospectively since 1920)
Builder:	New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
Commissioned:	16 October 1917
Fate:	Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 13[1] or 14[2] November 1919
United States
Name:	USCGC Quigley
Namesake:	A crew member of the Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Tampa killed in her sinking in 1918
Acquired:	13[1] or 14[2] November 1919
Fate:	Sold 1 May 1922
General characteristics
Class and type:	SC-1-class submarine chaser
Displacement:	77 tons normal 85 tons full load
Length:	110 ft (34 m) overall 105 ft (32 m) between perpendiculars
Beam:	14 ft 9 in (4.50 m)
Draft:	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) normal 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) full load
Propulsion:	Three 220 bhp (160 kW) Standard Motor Construction Company six-cylinder gasoline engines, three shafts, 2,400 US gallons (9,100 L) of gasoline; one Standard Motor Construction Company two-cylinder gasoline-powered auxiliary engine
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Range:	1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	27 (2 officers, 25 enlisted men)
Sensors and processing systems:	One Submarine Signal Company S.C. C Tube, M.B. Tube, or K Tube hydrophone
Armament:	1 × 3-inch (76.2 mm)/23-caliber gun mount[3] 2 × Colt .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns 1 × Y-gun depth charge projector

U.S. Navy service

SC-22 was a wooden-hulled 110-foot (34 m) submarine chaser built at the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York. She was commissioned on 19 October 1917 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 22, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 22.

Submarine Chaser No. 22 was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard on 13[1] or 14[2] November 1919 at Norfolk, Virginia.

The U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, after Submarine Chaser No. 22 had left Navy service. Had she remained in Navy service at that date, she would have been classified as SC-22 and her name would have been shortened to USS SC-22, and she now is referred to retrospectively by this name.

U.S. Coast Guard service

The Coast Guard commissioned the submarine chaser as USCGC Quigley.

The Coast Guard found Quigley, like other SC-1-class submarine chasers, too expensive to operate and maintain, and sold her on 1 May 1922.

Notes

1. United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Cutters and Craft: Quigley (1919) ex-SC-22
2. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/sc1/sc-1-sc-100v1.htm and NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: USCGC Quigley ex-SC-22
3. United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Cutters and Craft: Quigley (1919) ex-SC-22 states that during her Coast Guard service Quigley was armed only with one 1-pounder gun.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Flynn, Jim (2014). "U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Craft: Major Classes - 100-feet to 150 feet in length: 1915 to 2012" (PDF). US Coast Guard. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
• NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: USCGC Quigley ex-SC-22
• The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-22
• United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Cutters and Craft: Quigley (1919) ex-SC-22
• Woofenden, Todd A. Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of World War I. Bowdoinham, Maine: Signal Light Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9789192-0-7.