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Archive of Older "What's New in the Online Library of
Selected Images?" --
Entries posted in May, June & July 2002
This page features the May, June & July 2002 entries from
the Online Library's "What's New?" section.
For the more recent entries, and links to previous years' entries,
see:
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images;
For earlier entries from the year 2002, see:
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 2002
and;
What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 2002.
- Posting of more text, and pages on related subjects, has
now essentially completed our coverage of the September 1923
Honda Point Disaster.
Presentations will be added gradually in the coming months on
the remaining ships involved. Those completed during this past
week include one more of the destroyers wrecked in the incident,
USS Delphy (DD-261),
and one on a ship which barely excaped running on the rocks,
USS Farragut (DD-300).
Other subjects added during the week are the 1920s-built light
cruiser Richmond (CL-9)
and submarine S-47
(SS-158); World War I vessels Alaska
(ID # 3035), Ono
(SP-128) and Onward
(SP-311); and the Civil War cruisers Florida
and Fort Jackson.
28 July 2002
- The past week generated more progress toward completion of
our coverage on the Honda
Point Disaster of 8 September 1923, including photos of some
of the wrecked ships after they had been broken up by the waves.
In addition, presentations were added on four more of the lost
destroyers: Chauncey
(DD-296), Nicholas
(DD-311), S.P. Lee
(DD-310) and Woodbury
(DD-309).
Also freshly posted are pages on the light cruiser Detroit
(CL-8) and submarine S-46
(SS-157), both of which served from the mid-1920s through
World War II. The World War I era is represented by the patrol
boat Ahdeek (SP-2589),
tug Oneonta (SP-1138)
and yacht Oneida.
Our newest Civil War vessels are the blockading cruiser Santiago de Cuba and
one of her prizes, the blockade runner Columbia.
21 July 2002
- This week, we are adding another Event to the Online Library,
the notorious Honda
Point Disaster of 8 September 1923, in which seven nearly
new U.S. Navy destroyers and twenty-three lives were lost on
the coast of California. Though still lacking some text and links,
some thirty photographs are presented that dramatically show
the results of a tragic error in navigation. Related newly-posted
items are coverage on Captain
Edward H. Watson, the lost ships' squadron commander, and
two of the Honda Point Disaster's victims, the destroyers Fuller (DD-297) and
Young (DD-312).
Other new ships include the World War II light cruiser Cincinnati
(CL-6) and submarine S-45
(SS-156); the World War I era vessels Agwidale
(ID # 4464); Old
Colony (SP-1254) and Old
Dominion (ID # 3025); and the Civil War cruiser Vanderbilt. We also
added a page on Confederate Navy Acting
Master Francis Bonneau, who commanded the blockade runner
Ella and Annie
(posted last week) when she was captured in November 1863.
One final note on Online Library progress: last week, the number
of its images passed the 10,000 point. That's still a small fraction
of the Naval Historical Center's photo collections, but represents
a great steady effort since we began this project in January
1998.
15 July 2002
- After a lengthy period of neglect, we return to the field
of Naval Aviation with the Online Library's first presentation
in the Lighter-Than-Air field: what is, for our collection, comprehensive
coverage of the airship USS Akron
(ZRS-4), whose short career ended with tragic loss of life
on 4 April 1933. PResentations on other Navy airships should
follow gradually in the coming months.
New ships for the past week include light cruiser, USS Milwaukee
(CL-5), submarine S-43
(SS-154) the World War I patrol boats Natick
(SP-570), Nirvana
(SP-706) and Ocoee
(SP-1208) and the Civil War flagship Malvern,
which was previously the blockade runner Ella
and Annie.
8 July 2002
- As promised at the beginning of June we are now resuming
the posting of new Online Library content, following a refreshing
visit to Trondheim, Oslo and points in between. Several new World
War II era ships have been added, among them the light cruiser
USS Omaha (CL-4),
submarine S-42 (SS-153)
and five motor torpedo boats: PT-105,
PT-107, PT-108, PT-157
and PT-174. Newly-posted
World War I ships include the big transport Agamemnon
(ID # 3004), patrol boat Niagara
(SP-263), support vessel Machigonne
(SP-1043) and the civilian freighter New
Windsor. Our only new 19th Century representative is
the wooden screw sloop USS Omaha.
30 June 2002
- We begin June with a reasonably vast quantity of new postings,
including another World War II era light cruiser, USS Saint
Louis (CL-49) and a contemporary destroyer, USS Stack
(DD-406). Other newly added ships that saw action during
the 1940s include the submarines S-41
(SS-146) and Grampus
(SS-207), the destroyer Mason
(DD-191), whose WWII service was as the British HMS Broadwater
and the motor torpedo boat PT-109,
which was the object of a recent expedition to locate her remains.
Also posted were views related to five Japanese warships, including
the light cruiser Jintsu
and destroyers Amagiri
(which rammed and sank the PT-109, Minegumo,
Murasame
and Nagatsuki.
Our "new" World War I ships are the transport Aeolus
(ID # 3005), patrol vessel Nightingale
(SP-523) and the small motor tug Amphitrite
(ID # 3028), which saw most of her service after being renamed
Nerita. Two more Civil War ships round out the week's
offerings: the side-wheel steamers USS Alabama
and USS Arizona.
This will be the last "What's New" entry for two or
three weeks, as the compiler is decamping for a visit to the
auld sod; (or, more accurately, det gamle landet).
We'll start adding new listings in the later part of June.
3 June 2002
- This week's new additions feature the usual variety of ships
of the two World Wars and the Civil War. Ships from the World
War II era are the light cruiser Phoenix
(CL-46); destroyers Clark
(DD-361), Lang
(DD-399) and Chevalier
(DD-451); submarines S-36
(SS-141) and S-40
(SS-145); and motor torpedo boat tenders Wachapreague
(AGP-8) and Willoughby
(AGP-9).
From the World War I era we have the destroyer Craven
(DD-70), patrol vessel Nemes
(SP-424), cargo ship Neponset
(ID # 3581) and harbor tug Advance
(ID # 3057, later YT-28). The latest Civil War ship is USS Aries, another former
blockade runner which changed sides after being captured by the
Federal Navy.
27 May 2002
- Pushing deeper into May, we find a variety of new ships and
another World War II flag officer joining the Online Library's
ranks. The latter is Vice Admiral Robert
C. Giffen, who was heavily employed as a surface warship
task force commander from 1941 until 1944.
New World War II era ships include the U.S. Navy light cruiser
Nashville (CL-43);
the destroyers Dale
(DD-353), Grayson
(DD-435) and Monssen
(DD-798); submarine S-37
(SS-144); and the Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi.
New for World War I are the patrol vessels Navajo
III (SP-298) and Nelansu
(SP-610); plus the ambulance boats Southport
and Adrian (ID
# 2362). Finally, we produced an addition to our Civil War
fleet, the gunboat (and former blockade runner) Adela.
20 May 2002
- Our new postings for the past week include ships of the World
War I and World War II eras.
Among the latter are the light cruiser Savannah
(CL-42), destroyers Macdonough
(DD-351) and Maury
(DD-401), and the submarine S-39
(SS-144).
New World War I era vessels include: patrol vessels Admiral
(SP-967), Alacrity
(SP-206), SP-511
(originally named Alert), Natoya
(SP-396) and Nautilus
II (SP-559), plus the coastal transport Narragansett
(ID # 2196).
13 May 2002
- We greet the merry month of May with a spring bouquet of
new ships, covering the chronological range from the post-Civil
War era into the early post-World War II years.
The more recent ships include the light cruiser Philadelphia
(CL-41), destroyers Worden
(DD-352) (including extensive coverage of her loss) and Balch (DD-363), and
the small seaplane tender Timbalier
(AVP-54). Also freshly-posted are two contemporaries: the
Australian light cruiser Hobart,
which was originally the British Apollo; and the Japanese
anti-aircraft destroyer Akizuki
From the First World War we offer: the coastal transport Nopatin (which was
originally named Manhattan), the barracks ship Adirondack, and
the motor boat Natalia.
Completing our coverage of large torpedo vessels of the 1860s
and 1870s are new presentations on two ships of the latter decade,
both representing experiments in underwater weapon systems as
they existed before the general adoption of the free-swimming
"automobile" torpedo: USS Alarm
and USS Intrepid.
6 May 2002
This page features the May, June & July 2002 entries from
the Online Library's "What's New?" section.
For the more recent entries, and links to previous years' entries,
see:
- What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images;
For earlier entries from the year 2002, see:
- What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in January & February 2002
and;
- What's New in the Online Library
of Selected Images? -- Entries posted in March & April 2002.
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