LOST WITH FOUR HANDS - 12 MAR 1920

Lost on 12 MAR 1920 with the loss of four men, including the Commanding Officer, LCDR James R. Webb, as they tried to swim to shore after grounding on a shoal on Santa Margarita Island off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

USS VESTAL (AR 4), pulled USS H-1 off the rocks in the morning of 24 MAR 1920, only to have her sink forty-five minutes later in fifty feet of water.

The USS H-1 was originally named the USS SEAWOLF.