Photos from the collecton of a crewman on SC 259. Thanks to David Robinson for submitting the scans to The Subchaser Archives.
SC 259 was the unit leader of Unit 7 at Plymouth, England (SC 259, SC 83 and SC 87), and was engaged in minesweeping operations in the North Sea after the war.
In Lewis Clephane's monograph on chasers in WWI, he mentions SC 259 being one of the chasers placed on public exhibition after the Armistice, sailing to Norway, Sweden, Holland and Denmark, in an effort to sell the vessels overseas rather than return them all to the U.S. Some of these photos may be from that period.
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