The What's New Archive
October 1998
1998
31 October
09:05 - Updated the Flower-class corvette page.
Updated the Sloops page.
Heavily updated the Town class destroyer page.Added information on the lost O 13 to the Dutch Naval page.
09:05 - uboat.net just breached 2300 pages!
09:05 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Added a nice page on the Black Swan sloops.
Added a nice page on the Banff sloops.
Added a nice page on the Commonwealth Destroyers.
Added a nice page on the C class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the D class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the E class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the F class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the G class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the H class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the I class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the J class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the K class destroyers.
Added a nice page on the Havant class destroyers.
09:07 - Updated the profile for the following U-boats
U-111, U-175, U-209, U-213, U-218, U-356 and U-557.
09:06 - Added a great photo to the French Naval forces.
09:06 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Updated the page on Dutch Naval forces.
Updated the page on Norwegian Naval forces.
09:07 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Updated the page on Indian Naval forces.
09:07 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Updated the page on Soviet Naval forces.
09:08 -Updated the page on Soviet Naval forces.
Updated the page on Greek Naval forces.
09:08 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a nice page on the French Naval forces in WWII.
Created a nice page on the Indian Naval forces in WWII.
09:10 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a seperate page on the Allied Wartime shipbuilding programme.
09:10 - Updated the Polish Air Forces page.
09:09 - Updated the profile for U-boats
U-55, U-234, U-249, U-480, U-624 and U-681.
09:09 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a nice page on the Soviet Naval forces in WWII.
Created a nice page on the Norwegian Naval forces in WWII.
09:08 - Wrote about the cover-up of the sinking of the Belgian troopship SS Leopoldville carrying over 2000 American soldiers on 24, Dec, 1944 by U-486.
09:11 - Updated the profile (fate) for U-163.
09:11 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a nice page on the Dutch Naval forces in WWII.
Created a nice page on the Greek Naval forces in WWII.
09:10 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a nice page on the Tribal class destroyers.
Created a nice page on the Town class destroyers.
Created a nice page on the R & S class destroyers.
Created a nice page on the A class destroyers.
Created a nice page on the B class destroyers.
Created a nice page on the V & W class destroyers.
01:24 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Updated all the Allied personalities pages.
09:13 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Updated the CVE controversy page.
Updated the Polish Naval forces page.
09:13 - Added a nice photo of the Neger midget submarine.
09:12 - Updated the profile for U-14.
09:12 - Added cool info to the U-190 profile page.
09:12 - Added a great page about the incredible U-boat memorial at Möltenort in Germany. This is the U-boat version of the Vietnam wall in Washington really, but built much sooner.
09:15 - Updated the profile for U-853.
09:14 - Updated the profile (fate) for U-639.
09:14 - Updated the U-boat books bestseller list.
09:14 - Did a rewrite on the table layout of this page (What's new) which should result in faster downloads.
09:14 - It finally happened. I've just got my first letters calling me a "nazi", "fascist" and other nice words just because of the topic of this site. 2 out of 8300 letters is not too bad though. What's even more strange is that this person claimed to be willing to help on the site! Some people do not have a clue.
01:24 - Updated and cleaned up the Wolfpack pages.
09:15 - Ehemm, fixed the spelling for the month of October here in the What's New page from Okt (Icelandic) to Oct (English).
I really should not be drinking beer and HTMLing around :)
09:15 - Added a link to the highly interesting World War II Plus 55 site maintained by David H. Lippman. Take a look
09:16 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a page on the RAF Coastal Command.
09:17 - Updated the profile for U-614.
09:17 - Spell-checked and edited Reinhard Hardegen's and Günther Prien's pages.
09:16 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a page on Polish air forces against German U-boats.
01:24 - Major new section introduced!
This is the List of all U-boat Commanders during World War Two. This section already lists 238 of the 1,411 commanders. I plan to add 1-2 files each month until the job is finished. Any help on this section would be great.
01:24 - Did some clean-up on the several U-boat Types pages.
09:17 - Finally updated the page about yours truly, the editor.
No major changes though :)
09:18 - Updated the profile for U-182.
09:18 - Updated the profile on U-257.
09:18 - Answered e-mail number 1.890 this year. That's about 72% reply rate. Remember many letters do not require reply (books, comments and follow-up letters).
01:24 - Updated the comments page with many new notes.
09:20 - Added a short note to the Operation Deadlight news page.
09:19 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Added a fine link to the Destroyer escorts page.
09:19 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a page on allied air forces.
Created a seperate page for allied aircraft types.
09:19 - Fighting the U-boats, update
Created a small page on the Royal Navy.
Created a page on British submarines
09:20 - Added 5 book covers to the english language books pages.
09:20 - Updated the profile for U-501.
09:20 - Updated the page on Edsall class destroyer escorts.
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 47 additions or changes in our databases during October 1998.