The What's New Archive
July 1998
1998
26 July
20:19 - Added a nice page on the food onboard the U-boats.
20:19 - Added information on the biggest ship sunk by a U-boat.
20:19 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Added HMCS Weyburn to the Canadian vessels lost to U-boats page. Also included the vessel on the Corvettes lost page.
20:18 - Added one Neger and one Biber midget submarines in Norway to the Midget U-boats today page.
20:18 - Added better sinking information to profile for U-923.
20:18 - Greatly updated the personal file for
KorKpt. Werner Henke of U-515 fame
20:18 - Added 30 excellent new shots of the U-995 to the Gallery. They were taken by Susanne Giehler and can be found in Set D.
20:20 - Updated the profile for the U-167.
20:19 - Added a short narrative to the map of the Caribbean.
01:24 - Updated a few U-boat type technical pages.
20:22 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Added a page on Polish Naval Forces in World War Two.
20:22 - Installed a page on Allied Merchants and their development.
20:21 -
Training flotillas: 8th and 19th
Other units: 1. UUA, 1. ULD and 2. ULDAlso installed a Unit had no emblem marker on appropriate units.
20:21 - Added 10 new emblems for the following flotillas:
Combat Flotillas: 1st, 5th, 13th, 14th, and the 29th
20:21 - Added a nice map showing where U-869 (U-Who) was found and where she was belived to have been sunk for all this time.
20:23 - Improved the U-boats in the Mediterranean pages.
20:23 - Added emblems for the 2nd and 3rd Combat Flotillas.
20:23 - Added 4 U-boats to the Straits of Gibraltar map.
They were U-340, U-451, U-731 and U-732.
20:24 - Updated the profile for U-461. Her position was incorrect.
20:24 - Added a map of the Straits of Gibraltar. This was a busy part of the ocean much of the war.
20:23 - Added a map of the Bay of Biscay also known as the Valley of Death among U-boat men.
20:24 - Improved the flotilla base pages for Kiel and Lorient
20:24 - Added 9 new emblems for the following flotillas:
Combat Flotillas: 6th, 11th, 12th and the 23rd
Training Flotillas: 21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th and the 26th
20:25 - Added 8 excellent photos, 4 of the Elbe II to the Bunkers in Hamburg page and 4 more of the Kilian to the Bunkers in Kiel.
20:25 - Updated the profile pages of U-2505, U-3004 and U-3506.
20:25 - Added a very interesing page on the 3 type XXI boats trapped in the Elbe II bunker in Hamburg to this day. This page includes 4 awesome photos from inside the bunker.
20:26 - Updated the profile for Heinrich Timm's U-862.
20:26 - Somewhat late, but Kptlt. Otto Ites of U-94 fame is now our Commander of the Week.
20:26 - Finally added a map of the US East Coast. This one plots the U-boat losses in those waters.
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 29 additions or changes in our databases during July 1998.