More Photos of Subchasers

SC 1359 circa 1943, at commissioning.
(photo courtesy National Archives, College Park, MD)

SC 537 shortly after commissioning on trial run.
(photo courtesy National Archives, College Park, MD)

SC 742 in So. Pacific, picture shows comparative size, SC vs. DD.
(T. R. Treadwell photo)

The sorry fate of SC 709 off Louisbourg Nova Scotia January 1943.
(photo courtesy Royal Canadian Air Force)

SC 727 grounded on rocks at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 1945.
(photo courtesy National Archives, College Park, MD)

SC 745 - Hollandia, New Guinea 1944.
A dog is visible on the bow.
(T. R. Treadwell photo)

SC 630 rescuing a downed pilot.
(photo courtesy National Archives, College Park, MD)

SC 648 - My ship. Hollandia, New Guinea, 1944.
(T. R. Treadwell photo)

Making a fender aboard a subchaser.

SC 648. The signalman on this chaser was pretty good at sign painting.
(T. R. Treadwell photo)

SC 648. Those big floating drydocks could hold three subchasers in column formation.
(T. R. Treadwell photo)