The What's New Archive
March 2003
2003
29 March
21:13 - Conning Tower - Ships Attacked
Added a small script to locate the approximate attack positions for the ships we previously only had German grid code for. This solved most (about 80%) of the missing maps and now some 96.4% of the ships show maps.
18:45 - The Conning Tower
Fixed a bug in the new Biggest Casualties page for Ships Attacked. It mistakenly only selected the 52 first ships. Now it locates all ships with more than 100 losses, at this point 73 ships.
18:44 - Conning Tower
Added a new section called Biggest casualties that shows all the allied ships that suffered the highest number of losses in the war.
- Modified movie title Submarine X-1.
- Added errata for book The U-boat war in the Caribbean.
19:40 - Conning Tower
Added photos of 76 allied merchant ships attacked by U-boats on the war. Many of these photos you can only see here. We now have 663 ships with photos (20%).
19:11 - Allied Warships - 143 new photos added! 89 of these were Royal Navy ships (almost all destroyers) and 54 were US Submarines.
19:11 - Conning Tower
Greatly improved the look and feel of the section just now. It now has more info and even easier navigation.- Added cover for movie Crimson Tide
- Added cover for movie Crimson Tide
- Added new movie title Battle of the Atlantic.
- Modified movie title Crimson Tide.
- Modified movie title Crimson Tide.
- Added new movie title Crimson Tide.
- Added cover for movie K-19: The Widowmaker
- Modified movie title K-19: The Widowmaker.
- Added new movie title K-19: The Widowmaker.
- Added cover for movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Modified movie title 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- Added new movie title 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- Added cover for movie Hunt for Red October, The
- Added cover for movie Hunt for Red October, The
- Modified movie title Hunt for Red October, The.
- Modified movie title Hunt for Red October, The.
- Added new movie title Hunt for Red October, The.
- Added new movie title U-Boat.
- Added user submitted title Secrets of HMS Dasher, The.
18:44 - The Conning Tower
Added 2 new interesting Wolfpack sections, Wolfpacks by name and U-boats in Wolfpacks.
21:56 - Conning Tower update!
Uploaded the completely rewritten version of the Conning Tower. In this major step it's now fully CSS enabled, making it smaller, faster and better I hope. Hope you like it. Now I can concentrate on improving its contents.- Added new movie title Below.
- Added new movie title Scoundrel's Wife, The.
- Modified movie title 1941.
- Modified movie title 1941.
- Added cover for movie 1941
- Added new movie title 1941.
- Modified movie title Operation Pacific.
- Added cover for movie Operation Pacific
- Added new movie title Operation Pacific.
- Added book review for Second U-boat Flotilla
23:06 - Deleted the "XXXX number of visitors" info
I all of a sudden realized that it's silly to publish how many readers visit this site every day on the front page. The fact that you came here is really all that matters :) Accordingly I have removed the info, it was never really needed.- Added new movie title Submarine Command.
- Added new movie title Submarine D-1.
- Added English book Second U-boat Flotilla.
18:44 - Fixed a bug in the members area WWI Commander section where the listing of all officers would have incorrect dates with decorations and ranks in most cases. Silly mistake on my part and now solved.
- Added user submitted title Ultramar Sur.
- Added user submitted title Royal Navy - Section Belge 1940- ....
- Added user submitted title Gran Flota Británica 1914-1916, ....
- Added English book The Men of the Gambier Bay.
10:27 - Allied Warships - Added photos of 57 warships (41 Royal Navy cruisers and 16 US submarines). Now nearly 700 ships have photos (15%).
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 2302 additions or changes in our databases during March 2003.