History
United States
Name	Stag Hound
Owner	United States Lines[1]
Port of registry	New York[2]
Builder	Sun Shipbuilding[3] Chester, PA
Yard number	204[3]
Launched	18 October 1941[3]
Completed	September 1942[3]
Identification	USofficial number 242113 call sign KFPQ
Fate	Sunk byBarbarigo, 3 March 1943[1]
General characteristics
Class & type	Type C2-SU-R
Tonnage	6,165 GRT[3]
Length	453.3 ft (138.2 m)[2]
Beam	63.2 ft (19.3 m)[2]
Depth	27.5 ft (8.4 m)[2]
Decks	3
Installed power	1 × 5-cylinderdiesel engine; 870NHP[2]
Propulsion	1 ×screw
Speed	15.5 knots (28.7 km/h)[3]
Crew	10 officers, 49 men, 25Naval Armed Guardsmen[1]
Sensors & processing systems	wirelessdirection finding;echo sounding device;gyrocompass[2]
Armament	1 ×5 in (130 mm) gun[1] 1 ×3 in (76 mm) gun 6 ×20 mm gun

MSStag Hound was aType C2-SU-Rrefrigeratedmotor ship built bySun Shipbuilding forUnited States Lines. She was sunk by Italian submarineBarbarigo on 3 March 1943. All hands were rescued by anArgentinian ship.

Stag Hound waslaid down atSun Shipbuilding ofChester, Pennsylvania.^[3] Built under aUnited States Maritime Commission contract (MC hull number 116) on behalf ofUnited States Lines ofNew York,^[3][4] she waslaunched on 18 October 1941.^[3] AfterStag Hound's September 1942 completion, she was registered at New York and armed with one 5-inch (130 mm) and one 3-inch (76 mm)deck gun and sixmachine guns, and took on fourteenNaval Armed Guardsmen to man the guns.^[1]

On 28 February 1943,Stag Hound leftNew York forRio de Janeiro with a 5,800-long-ton (5,893.072 t) cargo that included dynamite, trucks, gas, and steel. At 19:15 on 3 March, near position16°44′S36°33′W / 16.733°S 36.550°W /-16.733; -36.550,Barbarigo hitStag Hound with two torpedoes. They destroyed the steering gear and the ship's antenna, and the ship'smaster, Harold T. McCaw, ordered the fatally damaged ship abandoned. The ship's 10 officers (including McCaw), 49 men, and 25 Naval Armed Guardsmen boarded two lifeboats and one life raft ten minutes after the attack.Barbarigo launched acoup de grâce that hit the still-floating ship, causing her to sink stern-first at 19:50, 35 minutes after the initial attack. After 25 hours in the water, all hands were rescued by the Argentinian steamshipRio Colorado and were landed at Rio de Janeiro on 8 March.^[1]

• Browning, Robert M (1996).U.S. Merchant Vessel War Casualties of World War II.Annapolis, Maryland:Naval Institute Press.ISBN 978-1-55750-087-8.OCLC 32310902.

• Type C2-SU ships
• 1941 ships
• World War II merchant ships of the United States
• Ships built by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
• Ships sunk by Italian submarines
• World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
• Maritime incidents in March 1943

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