- References
{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=USS SC-36, USS SC-38, USS SC-39 under construction 27 November 1917.jpg | Ship caption=Submarine Chaser No. 38 is in the center in this 27 November 1917 photograph of SC-1-class submarine chasers under construction at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. At left is Submarine Chaser No. 36, and the bow of Submarine Chaser No. 39 is at right.
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1918}} | Ship name=*USS Submarine Chaser No. 38 (1917-1919)- USS SC-38 (retrospectively since 1920)
| Ship builder=New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=1 February 1918 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship reclassified= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship fate=Sold December 1919 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=SC-1-class submarine chaser | Ship displacement=*77 tons normal | 110|ft|m|abbr=on}} overall- {{convert|105|ft|m|abbr=on}} between perpendiculars
| 14|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} | 5|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} normal- {{convert|6|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} full load
| 220|bhp|abbr=on}} Standard Motor Construction Company six-cylinder gasoline engines, three shafts, {{convert|2400|USgal|L}} of gasoline; one Standard Motor Construction Company two-cylinder gasoline-powered auxiliary engine | 18|kn|km/h}} | 1,000|nmi|km}} at {{convert|10|kn|km/h}} | Ship complement=27 (2 officers, 25 enlisted men) | Ship armament=- 1 × 3-inch (76.2 mm)/23-caliber gun mount
- 2 × Colt .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns
- 1 × Y-gun depth charge projector
| Ship sensors=One Submarine Signal Company S.C. C Tube, M.B. Tube, or K Tube hydrophone | Ship notes=
}} | USS SC-38, during her service life known as USS Submarine Chaser No. 38 or USS S.C. 38, was an SC-1-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War I. SC-38 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 1 February 1918 as USS Submarine Chaser No. 38, abbreviated at the time as USS S.C. 38. {{expand section|SC-38{{'}}s operational history from January 1918 to December 1919|date=February 2011}}In 1919, Submarine Chaser No. 38 participated in North Sea minesweeping operations to clear the North Sea Mine Barrage. During these operations, she struck a mine on 4 September 1919 and was damaged, but suffered no casualties. She was salvaged, and the Navy sold her to Thomas Lee of Ipswich, England, in December 1919. The U.S. Navy adopted its modern hull number system on 17 July 1920, after Submarine Chaser No. 38 had left Navy service. Had she remained in Navy service at that date, she would have been classified as SC-38 and her name would have been shortened to USS SC-38, and she now is referred to retrospectively by this name. References - {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/sc1/sc-1-sc-100v1.htm}}
- NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: SC-38
- The Subchaser Archives: The History of U.S. Submarine Chasers in the Great War Hull number: SC-38
- 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}}.
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