Submarine chaser SC 38 was a heavily armed miniature warship. Its crew saw a bit of everything, from hunting U-boats on the barrage lines, to shooting mines in the North Sea. The book "US Submarine Chaser 38 in World War I", tells the story of this chaser and its crew. Photos, letters, and personal accounts from the collection of GM1c Raymond Featherstone, Sr., bring his experiences alive, and in the biographies of the other crewmen we see a great little slice of history, as WWI intersects the lives of so many men: where they came from, and what brought them across the Atlantic Ocean and into the path of U-boats on a 110-foot wooden motorboat.

The history of the United States 110' submarine chasers in World War I. Heavily illustrated. 224 pages. See www.signallightbooks.com

With German U-boats wreaking havoc in the merchant shipping of the Triple Entente and increasingly jeopardizing citizens of the United States in the process, military and civilian officials in the neutral country began organizing as early as 1915 for what appeared to be an inevitable entry into the First World War. Key among the objectives for U.S. leadership was the suppression of the U-boats. After inspecting the antisubmarine warfare practices and vessels of other nations in the Triple Entente, the U.S. Navy opted for the production of its own specialized antisubmarine warfare craft. These 110-foot wooden vessels would carry the moniker of SC, short for submarine chaser.It took little time for the submarine chaser to change from a specific vessel type into a broader vessel classification. These small combatant craft were but one part of a broader antisubmarine warfare strategy that constantly changed with the introduction of new technology and new mentalities and were needed to carve out a specialized niche within that landscape.This thesis utilizes historical records in conjunction with three-dimensional models of three significant eras in submarine chaser construction to evaluate the influence in their design and development throughout the First and Second World Wars and determine which influences stand out as the most influential in the overall growth of the vessel type.

The submarine was one of the most revolutionary weapons of World War I, inciting both terror and fascination for militaries and civilians alike. During the war, after U-boats sank the Lusitania and began daring attacks on shipping vessels off the East Coast, the American press dubbed these weapons “Hun Devil Boats,” “Sea Thugs,” and “Baby Killers.” But at the conflict’s conclusion, the U.S. Navy acquired six U-boats to study and to serve as war souvenirs. Until their destruction under armistice terms in 1921, these six U-boats served as U.S. Navy ships, manned by American crews. The ships visited eighty American cities to promote the sale of victory bonds and to recruit sailors, allowing hundreds of thousands of Americans to see up close the weapon that had so captured the public’s imagination. In America’s U-Boats Chris Dubbs examines the legacy of submarine warfare in the American imagination. Combining nautical adventure, military history, and underwater archaeology, Dubbs shares the previously untold story of German submarines and their impact on American culture and reveals their legacy and Americans’ attitudes toward this new wonder weapon.

"Sunken Ships of World War II" is truly one of the greatest compendiums of naval history that has ever been put together. Not only does it give an exhaustive chronology of events and actions of the United States Navy, it also contains listings of the Allies (American and English) and of the Axis (Japanese, German and Italian) naval losses wherever they took place. Each of the pages of this book is packed with minute information on each sunken vessel. Entries also include the most available information on the commanders, crews, size, displacement and location in degrees of each vessel, the battles, the forces, and just about any other particular information of interest on each vessel. By any measurement, "Sunken Ships of World War II" stands alone for its depth and breath of the information revealed in its detailed pages.