The What's New Archive

December 2001

30 December

15:04 - Fixed a small bug in the U-boat of the Day section (see the front page). Sometimes ships declared a total loss or otherwise lost to the allies would not be counted.

00:28 - Emblems and boats
I've been working on the U-boat profiles and the emblems within the Conning Tower. Now it's possible to see on the pages for each U-boat whenever we have a known emblem for that boat. The emblem pages themselves were also improved a lot.

00:15 - uboat.net in 2001
Created a page showing what took place here at uboat.net in the year 2001. It's an interesting compilation, check it out! :)

29 December

18:35 - U-boat fates
I've been working very hard on the fates database. Mostly this was about yet another fact-checking and additions of new data (over 2 dozen new "previously recorded fate" entries).
While doing so I also created a new page for the Conning Tower (our members area) that's called Revised U-boat fates that shows all such fates in our system (about 140 at this time).

28 December

23 December

21:23 - Most Successful Commanders
I've rewritten these pages and discarded the interim database they used to rely on. Now the data is fully live from our latest research and should be as accurate as we can make them. Check this out!

19 December

17 December

13 December

12 December

11 December

10 December

21:47 - Ships attacked database
I just added 50 new pictures of ships attacked by U-boats in the war, now we have 149 ship images in the Conning Tower database.

9 December

Added cover for book Beware Raiders!
Added cover for book Fight for the Sea
Added user submitted title Send Down a Dove.
11:42 - Events on this day problems
Seems like our automatically generated Events page has completion problems on Sundays every week (other days are fine). This is probably due to server load on those days and I am solving that right now.

11:41 - New place of operations
I have finally moved to a new house (after 3 weeks of being offline for the most part) and now have a lot better environment to work on uboat.net and improve it. Look for lots of new things in the near future :)

6 December

2 December

In addition to the items shown here above we made some 998 additions or changes in our databases during December 2001.