The What's New Archive
January 2002
2002
31 January
22:37 - What's new archives
I finished the big job of moving the 665 what's new entries from old HTML pages into the database (entries from Dec 1996 through 1998). That was a long and boring task but it's over. I also rewrite that whole archive section and made a lot more friendly and useable.- Added cover for movie Enigma
- Added errata for book Silent Hunters.
- Added errata for book Fips - Legendary U-boat Commander.
- Added errata for book Dönitz and the Wolf Packs.
18:36 - Convoy battles open!
I've opened the convoy battles database in our members area! We belive it contains all the ships that fell victims to U-boats while in a convoy. Check it out!
- Added cover for movie U-Boat Wrecks of Operation Deadl ...
- Added new movie title U-Boat Wrecks of Operation Deadlight.
21:28 - Improved the Knights Cross winners pages by rewriting them to fully use our databases for the information needed.
15:39 - Added a really nice page by James Oglethorpe on the Royal Australian Air Force's fight against the U-boats. The page is a a very good read.
23:48 - The Shipyards
I've spent a lot of time on rewriting the entire shipyards set of pages. This called for a lot of editing of our shipyard data to make this as reliable as possible (this data had not been tested before now). Each shipyard is now the same design, with added info and much, much better data!
- Added cover for book Patriots and Heroes
18:35 - Convoy battles
I am working hard on finishing the convoy battles database for the members area (the Conning Tower). This database has information on over 540 convoys hit in the war (over 1500 ships) and contains full listing for each convoy. This will be ready within few days.
10:32 - All U-boat types pages have been completely rewritten from scratch. Now they all (not including midget boats) should look the same and have the best possible data. In the next few days I'll do the same for the shipyard pages as well.
- Added book review for Running the Gauntlet
- Added cover for book Send Down a Dove
22:29 - New database pages
Today I re-wrote both Post War U-boat events and U-boats missing in Action to make them read from our databases. They are both much better now.
22:07 - I've added some 73 new events (many of them post-war) to our Events database. Those entries will be visible on Events on this day and U-boat pages among other places.- Added new movie title Orzel.
- Added cover for book Last Voyage, The
- Added user submitted title Last Voyage, The.
- Added cover for book Nightmare in Bari
- Added user submitted title Nightmare in Bari.
23:35 - I've redone the entire Operation Deadlight pages with new data. To cut the story short I've removed 6 U-boats from the listing we had and now we have 115 U-boats listed there. This should be a lot better now. In addition I also added their final fates to their boat pages (see U-155 as an example of this).
- Added book review for Storm Warning
- Added cover for book Okrety podwodne
- Added cover for book Okrety podwodne
- Added cover for book Milczacy podwodny wróg
- Added cover for book Wilk na Atlantyku
- Added cover for book Podwodna bron dywersyjna
00:13 - Events on this day
I just added a nice new feature to this popular page, both the normal open version and the members area edition (which includes search for any date). Now you can see which U-boat commanders were either born or died on this particular date.
- Added cover for book SOS z glebin
- Added cover for book Okrety podwodne
- Added cover for book Sokoly siedmiu mórz
- Added cover for book Radziecki okret podwodny typu K
- Added cover for book Mleczne krowy
- Added cover for book Wojna podwodna na Pacyfiku
- Added cover for book Okrety wojenne 1900-1966
- Added cover for book Torpyedy VMF SSSR
- Added cover for book Torpyedy Rossiyskogo Flota
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 521 additions or changes in our databases during January 2002.